206 An Address to the People^ i^c. 



It is extremely unfortunate for those engaged in researches 

 concerning the objects of this class, that so many of them have 

 been disseminated abroad. To study them successfully, it is 

 necessary that they should be compared, and for this purpose 

 they must be brought together. The managers hope, there- 

 fore, that such persons as now hold, or may hereafter possess 

 any of these antiquities, will dispose of them to the Society, 

 instead of sending them out of the country. In this way, and 

 in this only, can a valuable collection of these unique curiosi- 

 ties, be formed. 



The remaining class comprehends the weapons, utensils, 

 trinkets, and other manufactures of our neighbouring Indians, 

 of which the managers hope^ in a short time, to be able to 

 exhibit a great variety. 



The curiosities of this country are the primary, but not the 

 exclusive objects of the Society. It proposes in due time to 

 open a gallery of paintings, and thus offer to the lovers and 

 cultivators of the fine arts, a few of those models which are 

 absolutely necessary to the gratification and improvement of 

 their taste. 



The managers will be happy, moreover, to receive from 

 such of their eastern brethren as are desirous of contributing 

 io the amelioration and advancement of a new and remote 

 community, any of the productions of foreign countries that 

 may be calculated to promote this object ; and will, in return, 

 cheerfully exchange any specimens of the curiosities of this 

 country which they can spare without injury to their collec« 

 tion. 



They will, if required, pay a reasonable price for every 

 article which may be deemed worthy of introduction into the 

 museum. They intend to publish, annually, a catalogue of 

 all the more valuable donations which may be made to the 

 museum, with the names of the donors. 



Elijah Slack, 

 James Findlay, 

 William Steele, >JWancgers. 

 Jesse Embree, 

 -Daniel Drake, 

 Ci^cinnaliySept.lb^ 1818.- 



