PROPOSED WESTERxN PUBTJCATIONS ON NATURAL 

 HISTORY. 



We are much gratified to learn the mtentionofthose able naturalists, 

 Messrs. Maclure, Say and Lesucur, to publish at New Harmony, Indi- 

 ana, the following works. 



J . A Work on the Fishes of America, by Mr. Lesveur, with 4 colour- 

 ed plates ineacli number; at 40 cents per number. 



2. A Work on American Shells, hy Mr. Say, with 10 coloured plates 

 in each number, a* {JI.OO j)er number. 



3. Michaux''s Syha Americana; the proposals for the republication 

 of wluch are thus announced by Mr. Maclure. 



"Before 1 left Europe, I found that a London book-seller was on 

 the point of purchasing tlie whole edition of MicnAux"'s Sylva Ameri 

 TANA from that author, with all the copper-plates, which having only 

 struck off about two or three hundred copies, are as good as new. I 

 inierfeied, and bought the whole, because I thought it a stock-book 

 that ought to be in all our libraries, as the only register of the greatest 

 part of our foiest trees; for after the cutting down of our woods, the 

 most useful only wdl be left in preservation. And likewise, from the 

 expense of publishing a new work, it is probable we shall never have 

 another so perfect, of wliich the London book-seller, taking the advan- 

 tage of his monopoly, would have made us pay dear; for, even when the 

 work was in the liands of the author, the London price was 10 guineas 

 per copy. 



Being in possession of all the copper-plates, capable of printing thou- 

 sands of copies — It is proposed to publish a new edition by subscrip- 

 tion, in Nos. of five plates, coloured after nature, at one dollar per No. 

 It is further intended, to add a number of trees, omitted by Michaux, 

 to make the work more complete — and to begin the publication when 

 one hundred subscribers shall be obtained. 



Letters addressed to the editor of Michaux 's Sylva Americana, New- 

 Harmony, Indiana, (postpaid) with the names of them that wish to be- 

 come subscribers, will be attended to. Agents will be appcjinted at the 

 ditierent places, when it shall be ascertained that the number of subscri- 

 bers will warrant the publication. 



Tiie Sylva Americana, of Micliaux, is not only an accurate bo- 

 tanical description of our forest trees, but contains considerable infor- 

 mation on the nature and quality of th"bir wood, localities, mode of cul- 

 tivation, and uses th(;y are put to, in the difierent States of the Union. 



[New Harmony Disseminator.'] 



JUST PUBLISHED at Boston, Mass. and will be ready for subscri- 

 bers in the Western country, in the course of a few weeks, MEMOIRS 

 OF THE LIFE OF THE Rev. HORACE HOLLEY, L. L. D. late 

 President of Transylvania University. By Charles Caldwell, M. D. 

 Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical Practice in that 

 Institution. 



The success which these memoirs have met with, in the Atlantic 

 States, has already rendered a second edition necessary to supply tlie 

 demand. 



