16 Dana — American Journal of Science, 1818-1918. 



Natural History, in its three great departments of Miner- 

 alogy, Botany, and Zoology; 



Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, in their various 

 branches: and Mathematics, pure and mixed. 



It will be a leading object to illustrate American Natural 

 History, and especially our Mineralogy and Geology. 



The Applications of these sciences are obviously as numer- 

 ous as physical arts, and physical wants; for no one of these 

 arts or wants can be named which is not connected with them. 



While Science will be cherished for its own sake, and with a 

 due respect for its own inherent dignity; it will also be 

 employed as the handmaid to the Arts. Its numerous applica- 

 tions to Agriculture, the earliest and most important of them ; 

 to our Manufactures, both mechanical and chemical; and 

 to our Domestic Economy, will be carefully sought out, and 

 faithfully made. 



It is also within the design of this Journal to receive communi- 

 cations on Music, Sculpture, Engraving, Painting, and gener- 

 ally on the fine and liberal, as well as useful arts ; 



On Military and Civil Engineering, and the art of Navigation. 



Notices, Reviews, and Analyses of new scientific works, and 

 of new Inventions, and Specifications of Patents; 



Biographical and Obituary Notices of scientific men; essays 

 on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, and generally on 

 such other branches of medicine as depend on scientific prin- 

 ciples ; 



Meteorological Registers, and Reports of Agricultural Experi- 

 ments : and we would leave room also for interesting miscellane- 

 ous things, not perhaps exactly included under either of the 

 above heads. 



Communications are respectfully solicited from men of 

 science, and from men versed in the practical arts. 



Learned Societies are invited to make this Journal, occasion- 

 ally, the vehicle of their communications to the Public. 



The editor will not hold himself responsible for the sentiments 

 and opinions advanced by his correspondents; but he will con- 

 sider it as an allowed liberty to make slight verbal alterations, 

 where errors may be presumed to have arisen from inadver- 

 tency. ' ' 



In the "Advertisement" which precedes the above 

 statement in the first number, the editor remarks some- 

 what naively that he "does not pledge himself that all the 

 subjects shall be touched upon in every number. This is 

 plainly impossible unless every article should be very 

 short and imperfect. . ." 



The whole subject is discussed in all its relations in 

 the "Introductory Remarks" which open the first vol- 



