400 Comparative Encouragement to the Study, SfC. 



published at New Harmony, and Mr. Conrad's, published in Phi- 

 ladelphia, both occasional. 



To all these may be added. The Monthly Museum of Foreign 

 Literature, Science, and Art, published in Philadelphia, and 

 three literary reviews, quarterly, where scientific subjects are 

 noticed ; and a quarterly medical work, published at Lexington, 

 Kentucky, The Transylvania Journal of Medicine, and the Associate 

 Sciences, where interesting notices of western botany and con- 

 chology have appeared. 



It results that there are five quarterly periodicals, eight 

 monthly periodicals, and seven works published occasionally by 

 scientific societies or individuals, all connected, more or less, with 

 natural science, in the United States ; and that of these, Phila- 

 delphia furnishes one quarterly, four monthly, and three occa- 

 sionals. Boston and Cambridge, one quarterly, one monthly, and 

 one occasional ; Washington, two monthly ; New Haven, one 

 quarterly; Charleston, S. C. one quarterly; Lexington, one quar- 

 terly ; Vandalia, one monthly; New York, one occasional; Al- 

 bany, one occasional ; New Harmony, one occasional. 



These are exclusive of the medical, agricultural, horticultu- 

 ral, and miscellaneous pubUcations, somewhat cognate to these 

 pursuits. 



It appears, that Philadelphia contributes eight-twentieths of 

 the whole of this scientific literature ; whilst New York, with a 

 greater population, docs not possess a single periodical of this 

 character, and only occasionally produces the annals of one 

 scientific society. If New York, with a population of 230,000, can 

 do no more for science than this, the propriety of establishing a 

 national society of science there, — as we perceive, has been at- 

 tempted by a late literary convention held in that city, — as well 

 as the probability of its ultimate success, may be well doubted ; 

 for what hope have we that a national society, fitted for 

 the wants of this active age, capable of watching over the 

 interests of science, and of elevating the scientific character of 

 the country, at home and abroad, — which should be the great 

 objects aimed at, — can be raised in the uncongenial atmo- 

 sphere of a commercial community, which has given no proofs 

 of being in that state of preparation, which invites the cstablish- 

 nnent of so important an institution as the one now contemplated, 

 and which can only be safely and encouragingly placed under the 



