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It is interesting to quote the remarks with which the 

 editor introduces the portrait (50, xviii, 1847). He says : 



The portrait prefixed to this volume was engraved for a very 

 different purpose and for others than the patrons of this Jour- 

 nal. It has heen suggested "by friends, whose judgment we are 

 accustomed to respect, that it ought to find a place here, since it 

 is regarded as an authentic, although, perhaps, a rather austere 

 resemblance. In yielding to this suggestion, it may he sufficient 

 to quote the sentiment of Cowper on a similar occasion, who 

 remarked "that after a man has, for many years, turned his 

 mind inside out before the world, it is only affectation to attempt 

 to hide his face/ 7 



Notes. 



1 The statements given are necessarily much condensed, without an 

 attempt to follow all changes of title; furthermore, the dates of actual 

 publication for the academies given above are often somewhat vaguely 

 recorded. For fuller information see Scudder's "Catalogue of Scientific 

 Serials, 1633-1876," Cambridge, 1876; also H. Carrington Bolton's 

 "Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1882" (Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1885). The writer is much indebted to Mr. C. J. Barr, 

 Assistant Librarian of Yale University Library, for his valuable assistance 

 in this connection. 



2 The following footnote accompanies the opening article of the first 

 volume of the Journal. "From the MS. papers of the Connecticut Acad- 

 emy, now published by permission." Similar notes appear elsewhere. 

 ED. 



