INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 



Author should be noticed, such notice will be strictly limited 

 to the particular matter adverted to, and will be expressed in 

 guarded and courteous terms. 



The First Number appears on the 1st of February, 1845, 

 and the other numbers of the present year will be published 

 on the 1st of the months of May, August, and November ; 

 and these will be followed, if due encouragement be given to 

 this publication, by quarterly numbers appearing at corre- 

 sponding periods, extending, it is hoped, for a long series of 

 years. 



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