AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 29 



Notices, Keviews, and Analyses of new scientific works, and 

 of new Inventions, and Specifications of Patents; 



Biographical and Obituary Notices of scientific men; essays 

 on COMPARATIVE ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY, and generally on 

 such other branches of medicine as depend on scientific prin- 

 ciples ; 



Meteorological Registers, and Reports of Agricultural Experi- 

 ments : and we would leave room also for interesting miscellane- 

 ous things, not perhaps exactly included under either of the 

 above heads. 



Communications are respectfully solicited from men of 

 science, and from men versed in the practical arts. 



Learned Societies are invited to make this Journal, occasion- 

 ally, the vehicle of their communications to the Public. 



The editor will not hold himself responsible for the sentiments 

 and opinions advanced by his correspondents ; but he will con- 

 sider it as an allowed liberty to make slight verbal alterations, 

 where errors may be presumed to have arisen from inadver- 

 tency. ' ' 



In the " Advertisement'* which precedes the above 

 statement in the first number, the editor remarks some- 

 what naively that he "does not pledge himself that all the 

 subjects shall be touched upon in every number. This is 

 plainly impossible unless every article should be very 

 short and imperfect. . ." 



The whole subject is discussed in all its relations in 

 the "Introductory Remarks" which open the first vol- 

 ume. No apology is needed for quoting at considerable 

 length, for only in this way can the situation be made 

 clear, as seen by the editor in 1818. Further we gain 

 here a picture of the intellectual life of the times and, not 

 less interesting, of the mind and personality of the writer. 

 With a frank kindliness, eminently characteristic of the 

 man, as will be seen, he takes the public fully into his 

 confidence. In the remarks made in subsequent vol- 

 umes, also extensively quoted the vicissitudes in the 

 conduct of the enterprise are brought out and when suc- 

 cess was no longer doubtful, there is a tone of quiet 

 satisfaction which was also characteristic and which the 

 circumstances fully justified. 



The INTRODUCTORY REMARKS begin as follows : 



The age in which we live is not less distinguished by a vigorous 

 and successful cultivation of physical science, than by its numer- 



