Miscellanies. 193 



The assiduous labor of nearly thirteen years had amassed for it a 

 large number of costly literary and scientific works, an extensive 

 collection of minerals, specimens in almost every department of Nat- 

 ural History, and many coins, medals and antiquities. In commen- 

 cing anew the work of accumulation, much, it is persuaded, can be 

 done by the contributions of the public and similar Institutions. 

 Most such societies and many individuals possess superfluous speci- 

 mens and duplicates of Books, of but little or limited use to them- 

 selves, while of value to those who are without and need them. To 

 associations or individuals who have it thus in their power to aid the 

 Academy, it cannot be necessary, for securing that aid, to address 

 any considerations. The cause of science and literature, is one of 

 no merely local or private concern, but possesses an interest and im- 

 portance of the widest character, and its followers, in what place so- 

 ever they urge its extension, must be counted as of one brotherhood. 

 To the same end all co-operate, and it no doubt must be the impulse 

 of feeling, as it certainly is the dictate of duty, that each, where it is 

 possible, shall lend encouragement and assistance to the other. 



The collections which the Academy seeks to make, embrace all 

 that can claim the attention of the literary and scientific. They in- 

 clude minerals, shells, fossils, specimens in Natural Science, books, 

 coins, aboriginal antiquities, maps and documents illustrative of the 

 history, geography, or literature of any portion of the v/orld, and in 

 particular of Maryland. Unpublished barometrical or thermometri- 

 cal observations — descriptions of celestial or terrestrial phenomena, 

 and State Statistics which have never been given to the world, are 

 likewise among the means of information which it seeks to gather 

 and make useful. Donations coming under the above description, or 

 aught else that can attract the observation of the curious, or stim*i- 

 late the inquiries of the learned, will be thankfully received and ac- 

 knowledged. By order, 



P. Macaulay, M. D., President. 



Wm. R. Fisher, Secretary. 



Baltimore, February 29th, 1836. 



Residents in Baltimore and the country adjacent, are respectfully 

 informed that Messrs. Tyson k, Fisher in Market, between Charles 

 and Hanover streets, and George W. Andrews, Esq. in the same 

 street, near the Bridge, will take charge of any donations left with 

 them, or sent to their address. Those who desire to transmit dona- 

 tions from a distance, will please address the Secretary. 



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