ADVERTISEMENT. 
Devoted as this Magazine is to a particular department of a science, 
and confined to treating of what relates directly and indirectly to that 
department, it were no wonder if a certain sameness of character could 
be traced in its now numerous volumes. But that this does not exist, 
even to the extent that might have been expected, or beyond a degree 
which it is impossible to avoid, we have pleasure as well as confidence 
in asserting. And the privilege of many years^ acquaintance with our 
indulgent Patrons, with the determination we have formed to present 
ourselves under a similar aspect to them in another volume, induce us 
thus to speak. 
Of the position to which the public have long ago elevated us, and the 
way in which we are maintained there, we have just reason to be proud ; 
but desire to be so only because it enables us to aid in creating and 
cherishing a taste for a delightful pursuit, which happily continues to 
furnish unmistakeable evidence that it is followed by increased and 
widely-spreading zeal. 
The volume now concluded, as those which preceded it have done, and 
as we intend any future ones to do, must speak for itself. Indeed, with 
