408 Miscellanies. 



of pharmaceutical nomenclatupe and preparations, and thus greatly to 

 facilitate the free interchange of experience among our physicians 

 respecting the effects of medicines, as well in their simple form, as 

 in officinal combinations and common extemporaneous prescriptions. 



8. Antiquities.— We earnestly invite the public attention to the 

 following important notice of American ANTiQ,tJiTiES. 



Mr. Editor, — Having just received a letter from the secretary of 

 the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, relative to the work on 

 America, upon which they have been for many years engaged, and 

 deeming that the information it contains may be interesting to those 

 who have subscribed* for the work, and may be the means of indu- 

 cing others to do the same, I have made extracts from it, and you will 

 oblige me by giving publicity to them through the Journal. 



I would also reiterate the request of Prof. Rafn, that the periodi- 

 cals and journals of the day would copy the announcement here 

 made, in order that the very limited encouragement thus far offered 

 by us to the Danish Society, may be extended to a degree commen- 

 surate with the importance of the publication, and the labor by them 

 bestowed upon it. 



The subject of the early history and antiquities of America, is 

 daily attracting more and more attention ; and among the philoso- 

 phers and antiquarians who have enlisted in the cause, those associ- 

 ated with and belonging to the Society established at Copenhagen 

 stand pre-eminent for their laborious investigations, their long contin- 

 ued and unwearied inquiries, their deep and extensive researches, 

 and more than all, for the success which appears to have crowned 

 their efforts. 



• Many seem to think that all which can be satisfactorily known in 

 relation to this matter, is embodied in the second chapter of Wheaton's 

 History of the Northmen. 



But as interesting as the intelligence there communicated is, the 

 account is a brief one, and made subsidiary to his main design ; the 

 distinguished author having for his object the elucidation not of 

 American history, but that of the Danes and JYormans. 



All that relates specially to this country, is embraced in less thaa 

 eight octavo pages, whereas the Society's work will contain several 

 hundred quarto pages. 



* Yale College has ordered a copy for its Library,. 



