ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO FRIENDS, CORRESPONDENTS 
AND STRANGERS. 
_ Remarks.—This method of acknowledgment has been adopt 
ed, because it is not always practicable to write letters, where 
they might be reasonably expected; and still more difficult is it 
to prepare and insert in this Journal, notices of all the books and 
pamphlets which are kindly presented, even in cases, where such no- 
lices, critical or commendatory, would be appropriate ; for it is often 
equally impossible to command the time requisite to frame them, or 
even to read the works; still, judicious remarks, from other hands, 
would usually find both acceptance and insertion. 
In public, itis rarely proper to advert to personal concerns ; to 
excuse, for instance, any apparent neglect of courtesy, by pleading 
the unintermitting pressure of labor, and the numerous calls of our 
fellow-men for information, advice, or assistance, in lines of duty, 
with which they presume us to be acquainted. 
_ The apology, implied in this remark, is drawn from me, that I may 
not seem inattentive to the civilities of many respectable persons, au- 
thors, editors, publishers, and others, both at home and abroad. It 
is still my endeavor to reply to all letters which appear to require an 
answer; although, as a substitute, many acknowledgments are made 
in these pages, which may sometimes be, as now, in part, retrospec- 
ive.—LEd. 
Be DOMESTIC. 
Memoir of James Jackson, Jr., M. D. with extracts from his let- 
ters, by James Jackson, M.D. Fromthe Author. 1835. 
Report on the new map of Maryland, 1834. 
- Geological Report on the country between the Missouri and Red 
Rivers, by G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esqr. ‘Three copies. From 
Hon. G. Tomlinson, Mr. Machen, and Col. Abert, of Washington. 
Carpenter’s Medical Advertiser, for 1835. From Mr. Carpenter, 
Philadelphia. 
Oration of J. Q. Adams, (three copies) on the death of Lafayette, 
‘Hon. G. Tomlinson, and Hon. Mr. Silsbee, of the Senate, and J. 
Trumbull, Esq. of the House. Washington, 1835. 
Report of the Majority and Minority of the Committee of the Sen- 
ate on the Post Office and Post Roads. From J. Trumbull, Esq. 
Washington, 1835. 
