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30, Quarterly J. etc. 1830-31, Journal of the Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain. 



1818. American Journal of Science and Arts until 1880, 

 when "the Arts" was dropped, New Haven, Conn. First 

 Series, 1-50, 1818-1845 ; Second Series, 1-50, 1846-1870 ; Third 

 Series, 1-50, 1871-1895; Fourth Series, 1-45, 1896-June, 1918. 



1818. Flora, or Allgemeine botanische Zeitung. Regensburg, 

 Munich. 



1820-1867. London Journal of Arts and Sciences (after 

 1855, Newton's Journal). 



1824. Annales des sciences naturelles. Paris. 



1826-. Linnjea, Berlin, Halle ; from 1882 united with Jahrb. 

 d. K. botan. Gartens. 



1828-1840. Magazine of Natural History, London; united 

 1838 with the Annals of Natural History, and known since 1841 

 as the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



1828-. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, from 

 1826; earlier (1825) the American Mechanics Magazine. 



1832-. Annalen der Chemie (und Pharmacie) often known 

 as Liebig's Annalen. Leipzig, Lemgo. 



The Founder of the American Journal of Science. 



The establishment of a scientific journal in this country 

 in 1818 was a pioneer undertaking, requiring of its 

 founder a rare degree of energy, courage, and confidence 

 in the future. It was necessary, not only to obtain the 

 material to fill its pages and the money to carry on the 

 enterprise, but, before the latter end could be accom- 

 plished, an audience must be found among those who had 

 hitherto felt little or no interest in the sciences. This 

 great work was accomplished by Benjamin Silliman, 

 "the guardian of American Science," whose influence 

 was second to none in the early development of science in 

 this country. Before speaking in some detail of the 

 early years of this Journal and of its subsequent history, 

 it is proper that some words should be given to its 

 founder. 



Benjamin Silliman, son of a general prominent in the 

 Revolutionary War, was born in Trumbull, Connecticut, 

 on August 8, 1779. He was a graduate of Yale College 

 of the class of 1796. Though at first a student of law and 

 accepted for the bar in Connecticut, he was called in 1802 

 by President Timothy Dwight a man of rare breadth of 



