NOTICE. 



The First Volume of the Transactions of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of New-York, is now, with due deference, 

 submitted to the Public, 



Besides the eloquent and elaborate Introductory Discourse of the 

 President, this volume will be found to contain such Communications, 

 from its different members, as have from time to time been read before 

 the Society since its organization in 1814, and which have been 

 considered worthy of preservation in a printed form. In the Selection 

 of Papers for the press, the Counsellors, to whom that office pertains, 

 have directed their views solely to the intrinsic merits of the several 

 Memoirs submitted to them ; and the Society here wish it to be 

 distinctly understood, that they now disclaim, and ever shall, all 

 responsibility as to the verity of facts, or the soundness of the 

 speculations contained in the Communications they may publish : 

 These must rest with their respective authors. 



In the disposition of Papers the Committee of Publication for this 

 Volume have had regard chiefly to the order of time in which the 

 different Communications were read before the Society. 



New-York, August 1st, 1815. 



