PLAN OF THE WORK. 



This Joumal is intended to embrace the circle 

 of THE Physical Sciences, with their application 

 to THE Arts, and to every useful purpose. 



It is designed as a deposit for original American 

 communications; it will contain also occasional 

 selections from Foreign Journals, and notices of 

 the progress of Science in other countries. Within 

 its plan are embraced 



Natural History, in its three great depart- 

 ments of Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology. 



Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, and their 

 various branches : and Mathematics, pure and 

 mixed. 



It will be a leading object to illustrate Ameri- 

 can Natural History, and especially our Mine- 

 ralogy and Geology. 



The Applications of these sciences are obvi- 

 ously as numerous as physical arts^ and physical 

 wants ; for no one of these arts or wants can be 

 named which is not connected with them. 



While Science will be cherished for its oivn 

 sake, and with a due respect for its ow^n inherent 

 dignity; it will also be employed as the hand- 

 maid to the Arts. Its numerous applications to 

 Agriculture, the earliest and most important 

 of them ; to Mamfactures. both mechanical and 



