

THE 



Ax^IERICAN JOURNAL 



QV 



SCIENCE AND ARTS, 



cojvducted by 



Prof.B. SILLIMAN and B. SILLIMAN, Jr. 



OF YALE COLLEGE. 



The Editors of this Journal, wish to call public attention to the fact that they 

 will hereafter, on the conditions stated below, frank the numbers to all their sub- 

 scribers who receive the work directly from them by mail. Their object In making 

 this offer, is to place those persons who cannot take the work through an agent, and 

 therefore free of charge of transportation, on the same footing in this respect with 

 city subscribers. Subscribers by mail have heretofore paid from $1 to $1 37.^ per 

 annum for postage, which has been a sufficient consideration to induce many to de- 

 cline taking the work. Now that this objection is removed, upon the simple con- 

 dition of punctual remittances, the Editors confidently hope that the number of their 

 mail subscribers will be much increased; and they make no apology to their pre- 

 sent supporters and contributors, for asking their assistance in aiding them to sus- 

 tain thisexperiment, by making this notice more public,and by inducing their friends 

 to subscribe. 



Experience has proved that the mail is by far the best means of conveyance to 

 distant subscribers — the most sure and most speedy; and all attempts to establish 

 agencies at a distance, and away from the great lines of transportation have utterly 

 failed — delay and dissatisfaction and often abandonment of the work being the result. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts is published at New Haven, Connec- 

 ticut. Each number contains at least 200 pages, closely and handsomely printed on 

 good paper, and fully illustrated by engravings. The subscription is $6 in advance, 

 by mail. The extra dollar beyond the usual price of the literary quarterlies is in- 

 dispensable, on account of a more limited patronage, and the great expense of en- 

 gravings. 



Remittances should be made if possible in Eastern money, but if that cannot be 

 obtained, the best bills which can be had may be substituted, and no discount will 

 be charged upon them. 



Subscribers will remember the regulation of the Post-Office department, by which 

 Postmasters are authorized to remit payments for periodicals free of postage, if 

 the letter containing the remittance is written by themselves. 



Ail letters and remittances directed to the Editors of the American Journal of 

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N. B. Subscribers who wish to avail themselves of the free postage, must see 

 that their accounts are not in arrears; when such is the fact, the Editors cannot 

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The usual publication day is the last of every month. 



0=" Advertisements are inserted on the customary rates, and the European circu- 

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New Haven, Conn., January, 1840. 



