184 QUARTERLY JOURNAL.. 



TO THE SUBSCRIBEES OP THE JOURNAL. 



We have the pleasure of saying that we haA'e already several 

 important articles for the April number. We intend that hereaf- 

 ter the work shall appear promptly at the time it is due. Una- 

 voidable circumstances connected with the printing of the present 

 number has delayed its appearance two weeks beyond the time we 

 had intended. 



In conducting this Journal we propose to pursue a method which 

 we think will be of great importance to our patrons. Instead of 

 furnishing them with single articles upon important subjects, we 

 propose giving a series in successive numbers, in order that all 

 which relates to any given subject may be put within their reach; 

 for example, we propose furnishing something upon insects injurioui 

 to the vegetable kingdom ; instead of limiting the communication^ 

 to a single essay, we propose follo\ying up the subject until it is ^ 

 exhausted, or until the separate communications form a tolerably 

 complete work ; so of Agricultural Geology, the food of animals and 

 plants, &c., one number of which we have already given. By 

 pursuing this course we shall place within the reach of every agricul- 

 turist all the information he will require upon those subjects, and 

 it is scarcely necessary to add, that if we are sustained in this effort 

 we shall be able to make the Journal superior to most of the peri- 

 odicals of the kind in this country. Our subscribers will remem- 

 ber that we labor under a disadvantage on account of postage, 

 which the monthly periodicals do not; on this account we art 

 desirous always to forward the work by some cheaper mode than 

 the mail. If we are unable to forward it by the regular express, 

 we hope our subscribers may point out to us some mode of con- 

 veyance which shall be satisfactory to them and which will dimin- 

 ish to the least possible amcmnt, the expense of conveyance. 



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