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if we may be allowed to express a wish relative to the nature 

 ef future communications, it would be, that those of a scientific 

 nature should not be diminished, while those relating to the 

 arts, to agriculture, and to domestic economy, should be in- 

 creased ; we particularly solicit the communications of practi- 

 cal men, versed in the useful and ornamental arts, and they will 

 be acceptable should they not even be clothed in a scientific 

 dress. 



Arrangements have been made for the reception of an in- 

 creased number of the best European Journals, both from the 

 continent and from Britain ; they have already begun to arrive, 

 and we hope to give in future numbers, more full details of 

 foreign scientific intelligence, although it is true that this spe- 

 cies of information has hitherto been stinted, not from poverty 

 of materials, but from the pressure of original American com- 

 munications. 



in justice to the publishers of this work, we add, that this 

 publication is an expensive one ; very heavy advances have been 

 already made by them, while only a trivial eunount has been 

 received in return. It is hoped, therefore, that subscribers 

 will promptly remit, free from postage, the small stipulated 

 sum, and also make the required advance for the succeeding 

 volume. This last is not due till the first number of that volume 

 has been issued, but it would save postage to remit both sums 

 at once, and thus also it will be known what subscriptions are 

 continued. In a subscription so widely dispersed over a large 

 portion of the United States, an inattention to punctual payment^ 

 must soon put in hazard the existence of a work, having other- 

 wise the fairest prospects of continuance, and we hope of use^ 

 fulness. 



Should thi« appeal be promptly answered, the first number 

 of the next volume (already in considerable forwardness,) will 

 be published in the course of the summer j and should men of 

 ability continue to furnish communications, and the public be 



