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■ppeared in my Journal and in that of Mr. Tilloch, and 
have requested me to consult with him upon the means 
of preventing the Philosophical World from receiving the 
same - materials in both. Similar remonstrances have 
also been addressed to him. .But it seemed impossible' 
to afford -a remedy in two distinct works ; both equally 
engaged to present to the public every thing that might 
prove new, interesting, and valuable. At this season it 
was in my oontemi)lation to have made some changes 
which might have rendered my work, in several respects, 
more useful. 1 conferred with Mr. Tilloch ; and the 
result of our deliberations has been, that it would cer- 
tainly be best that we should unite, and that the joint 
product of our e.\erlions and our correspondence should 
be consolidated in one work, — affording all that has hi- 
therto been considered as desirable in the plans and con- 
duct of bmh, but free from the objection last stated, and 
perhaps one or two jnorc, upon which it is needless to 
enlarge. 
T/ie PuiLosopiiicAL Journal iti/i henceforth he dis- 
continued, and the Phuosopiucal Magazink uUl be 
conducted by W. Xicholsox and A. Tillocu. in the 
same manner as it has aheaysbeen carried on, but u ith every 
mttention to improvement, which the Joint exertions oj' the 
Editors, and the communications of their Jriends and cor-^ 
respondents, twj afforeL 
1 would, in consequence, request a continuance of 
