CORRESPONDENCE. 145 



YALE COLLEGE, August 24, 1836. 



SIB When you submitted to my perusal the plan of the mate- 

 riel for the proposed scientific corps, I had time only to state my 

 general approbation of the scheme, and to second the suggestion of 

 Professor Anthon, in regard to the appointment of a philologist. I 

 will now state my views more at large. 



After providing a practical astronomer, whose business it shall 

 be to notice celestial phenomena, particularly the part of the 

 heavens less known, because less seen; and a meteorologist, who 

 shall attend to the multifarious objects which belong to his depart- 

 ment, now fast rising into importance ; after supplying the branches 

 of hydrography and physical geography, which are closely con- 

 nected, the one with the safety of the navigator, the other with the 

 perfection of a science in which every schoolboy is concerned; 

 after making provision for the different branches of mineralogy, 

 geology, botany, and zoology, the claims of which are so justly 

 appreciated by our numerous Lyceums, and by all learned and 

 intelligent naturalists, we come to the natural history of man 

 in my view, one of the most important objects which can be 

 presented to the attention of the scientific corps. 



Permit me, then, to recommend, as highly important in itself, 

 and adapted to the wants and wishes of the learned at home and 

 abroad, and as an object which will redound to the glory of our 

 nation, the addition of two members to the proposed corps, whom, 

 for the sake of conciseness, we shall call the anthropologist and 

 the philologist. 



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