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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 



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JXTROBVCTOnr REMARKS, 



X HE age in which we live is not less distinguished by a 

 vigorous and successful cultivation of physical science, than by 

 its numerous and important applications to the practical arts, 

 and to the common purposes of life. ^ 



In every enlightened country, men illustrious for talent, 

 worth, and knowledge, are ardently engaged in enlarging the 

 boundaries of natural science ; and the history of their labours 

 and discoveries is communicated to the world chiefly through 

 the medium of Scientific Journals. The utility of such Journals 

 has thus become generally evident ; they are the heralds of 

 science ; they proclaim its toils and its achievements ; they 

 demonstrate its intimate connexion as well with the comfort, 

 as with the intellectual and moral improvement of our species ; 

 and they often procure fof it enviable honours and substantial 

 rewards. 



In England the interests of science have been, for a series 

 of years, greatly promoted by the excellent Journals of Til- 

 loch and Nicholson ; and for the loss of the latter, the scientific 

 world has been fully compensated by Dr. Thomson's Annals of 



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