ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO FKIEND3, CORRESPONDENTS AND STRANGERS. 



Remarks. — This method of acknowledgment hns been adopted, 

 because it is not always practicable to write letters, even in cases 

 where they might be reasonably expected ; and still more difficult 

 is it to prepare and insert in this Journal, notices of all the books and 

 pamphlets which are kindly presented. 



In many cases, such notices, critical or commendatory, would be 

 appropriate; but it is often equally impossible to command the lime 

 requisite to frame them, or even to read the works ; still, judicious 

 remarks, from other hands, would usually find both acceptance and 

 insertion. 



In public, it is rarely proper to advert to personal concerns ; to 

 excuse, for instance, any apparent neglect of courtesy, by pleading 

 the unintermitting pressure of labor, and the numerous calls of our 

 fellow-men for information, advice, or assistance, in lines of duty, 

 with which they presume us to be acquainted. 



The apology, implied in this remark, is drawn from me, that I may 

 not seem inattentive to the civilities of many respectable persons, au- 

 thors, editors, publishers, and others, both at home and abroad. It 

 is still my endeavor to reply to all letters which appear to require an 

 answer; although, as a substitute, many acknowledgments are made 

 in these pages, which may sometimes be, as now, in part, retrospec- 

 tive. — Ed. 



DOMESTIC. 



American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for 

 1834 ; from J. E. Worcester. 



Travels in the North of Germany, by Henry E. Dwight ; from 

 the author. 1829. 



Faraday's Chemical Manipulations — edition of Prof. J. K. Mitch- 

 ell ; from the editor. 



Hayden's Geological Essays; from the author. 1820. 



Eaton's Geological Essay on the District adjoining the Erie Canal; 

 several copies, from Hon. S. Van Rensselaer. 1824. 



Thoughts on the Policy of establishing a School of Medicine in 

 Louisville ; Is. C. Cross, M. D. 1834. 



Prof. A. D. Bache on the Navigation of the Chesapeake and Dela- 

 \vare Canal by Steam. 1824. 



American Coast Pilot, &tc., by Edmund C. Blunt ; from the author. 



Chart of Long Island Sound, by Edmund C. Blunt. 1830. From 

 E. & G. W. Blunt. 



Oration before the Medical Society of Tennessee, by John H. 

 Kain, A. M. 1831. 



Inaugural Address delivered at the opening of Morrison College, 

 Lexington, Ky., Nov. 4, 1833, by Rev. President Peers. 



Outlines of Geology, by J. L. Comstock, M. D. 12mo. 1834. 

 Hartford. From the author. 



Report of the Committee on the Post Office to the Senate, June 

 9, 1834; from Hon. Nathan Smith. 



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