564 The Editor to his Subscribers, 



discontinuance of a work for which they had paid. I have now 

 redeemed the pledge given to that effect. 



Apart from the pecuniary losses sustained by the conduct ol 

 the publisher alluded to, — who in numerous instances after he had 

 received the subscription money, ceased to forward the work — I 

 have been reproached from numerous quarters and subjected to 

 repeated postages, for the irregular manner in which the work 

 was forwarded previous to the bankruptcy of the publisher. 

 It was thought that sufficient steps had been taken to inform 

 the subscribers how little any reproaches were deserved on this 

 score : now that the volume is completed I trust they will do 

 me justice. 



There have been several subscribers since this journal became 

 the sole property of the editor, he will be greatly obhged to them 

 to remit him the amoimt due to him. He requests the favour 

 also of all those who have acted as agen<s for the distribution 

 of the journal, to remit him whatever may be due. He hopes 

 that none of the persons indebted for this journal will put him 

 to the trouble of reminding them again, of what ultimately they 

 must do. As to that foreign agent who was originally employed 

 by the publisher at the establishment of the journal, and who 

 by flattering letters has since decoyed the editor into forwarding 

 so many packages of this work, he is informed that a silence of 

 six months on his part, after repeated letters written to him, has 

 left the editor a very bad opinion of him, which he may be 

 tempted to express in a manner that may be very injurious to 

 him, if time should prove him to deserve it, and a very little 

 time now remains to bring his conduct to the test. 



The editor returns his most sincere thanks to his correspon- 

 dents : it would be superfluous to name them here. The names of 

 the most distinguished of them are found in the body of the work. 

 When the heats of summer shall have past over, and when we 

 shall be able, under the favour of divine Providence, to return, 

 in a healthy atmosphere, to our wonted occupations, the editor 

 proposes to resume the publication of his journal, upon a more 

 enlarged plan. He proposes to have a geological section, and a 

 plate of American fossils in each number, with appropriate des- 

 criptions of them. He has been for some time considering how 

 to introduce the information which has been collected concern- 

 ing the various mining districts of the United States, and the 



