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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 been suggested hy 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 be 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." 



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. 



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. 



