ATLANTIC JOURNAL 
AND 
A CYCLOPEDIC JOURNAL AND REVIEW 
OF UNIVERSAL SCIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE l 
HISTORICAL, NATURAL, AND MEDICAL ARTS AND SCIENCES: 
INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION: 
EDITOR, C. S. RAFINESQUE, 
Professor of Historical and Natural Sciences , and Member of several learned Societies 
in Paris , Brussells , Vienna , Naples, Bonn, Nexv-York, Phila- 
delphia, Cincinnati , Lexington , &c> 
Knowledge is the mental food of man. 
VOL. I. 
P1IILAD. SEPTEMBER, 1832. [Extra of No. 3. 
NOTICE. 
The appearance of the Spasmodic 
Cholera in Philadelphia, having in- 
duced the Editor to lengthen his 
usual Summer Excursions, during 
July, August and September, the 
third number of this Journal (now 
printing) will only appear in the 
beginning of October, and is pre- 
ceded by this Extra Number, The 
fourth Number shall appear in De- 
cember. Both shall only be sent to 
those who have paid or sent the 
small subscription amount. This 
Extra Number is intended as a 
warning; to those who have neglect 
it. 5thly, We give below a list of 
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of need, the agents of Atkinson’s 
Saturday Evening Post, and Casket, 
as well as of the Journal of Health, 
may be applied to, and the 8 1 paid 
them, informing our friend Atkinson 
of it, when they, write to him and 
remitting the same. 
In all those cases, whenever we 
shall hear of g 1 being paid or secu- 
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the back numbers, to new subscri- 
bers as long as they can be furnish- 
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ed this, and as another sample of|a volume of 400 pages and many 
the contents of this Journal, which 
will appear to deserve, as they have 
already partly received, the warm 
approbation of all the liberal friends 
of knowledge and science. Great 
difficulty having occurred with sub- 
scribers in forwarding the small 
amount of subscription, we recom- 
mend again to send us 8 2, in which 
case we are willing to bear the heavy 
postage ^ or else to join five together 
to send us $ 5 for five subscriptions 
in one place. Silly, To send 81 by 
a friend coming to the city. 4thly, 
To pay it to the Postmaster, and re- 
figures. 
CONTENTS FOR THIS YEAR. 
This Journal is dedicated to ail 
the sciences and branches of know- 
ledge; but chiefly all the historical, 
philosophical and natural sciences, 
on which it contains more new ma- 
terials and details than any other 
Journal of a similar size, nay per- 
haps as many if not more than some 
dearer and bulkier. Above all it 
gives chiefly materials concerning 
America, and has nearly as many 
articles on Geology, as the Amen- 
quest him to send it or inform us of can Journal ot Geology* 
