THE MINERALOGICAL JOURNAL: BEING A COLLECTION OF FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS TENDING TO ELUCIDATE THE MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TOGETHER WITH OTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY CONDUCTED BY ARCHIBALD BRUCE, M. D. PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND MINERALOGY IN THE MEDICAL INSTITUTION PRINTED AND SOLD BY COLLINS & co. NO. 189 PEARL-STREET. 1040 1814. Diftrict of New-York, fs. BE E IT REMEMBERED that on the twenty-third day of Febru ary, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States (L. S.) of America, ARCHIBALD BRUCE of the faid District, hath depofited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words and figures following, to wit: "The American Mineralogical Journal: being a Collection of Facts and Observations, tending to elucidate the Mineralogy and Geology of the United States of America. Together with other information relative to Mineralogy, Geology and Chemistry, derived from scientific sources.-Conducted by Archibald Bruce, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Mineralogy in the Medical Institution of the State of New-York and Queen's College, (N. J.) member of the American Philosophical and Linnean Societies of Philadelphia, Honorary member of the Connecticut academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Royal Medical and Wernerian Societies of Edinburgh, and Mineralogical Society of Jena. Vol. I." IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congrefs of the United States, entitled, “An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by fecuring the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch Copies, during the time therein mentioned;" and alfo to an Act, entitled, "An Act fupplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by fecuring the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch Copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Defigning, Engraving, and Etching Historical and other Prints." THERON RUDD. Clerk of the District of New-York. 130952 TH HE object of this work is to collect and record such information as may serve to elucidate the Mineralogy of the United States, than which there is no part of the habitable globe which presents to the mineralogist a richer or more extensive field for investigation. Of the utility of a publication of this kind, much might be said: it may however be sufficient to observe, that nothing has contributed more to increase and diffuse Mineralogical information than the periodical works on the continent of Europe, particularly those in Germany and France. At the present period, when such laudable exertions are making to improve and extend the manufactures of our own country, a knowledge of the mineral productions, on which so many of the useful arts depend, and with which nature has so liberally supplied us, becomes particularly desirable. In order therefore that the design may be carried into effect, communications from those gentlemen who may have directed their attention to this interesting branch of science, are respectfully solicited, particularly such as may relate to the Geology and Mineralogy of particular districts; the history of Mines, their products, methods of reduction, and improvements in Metallurgy generally; descriptions of individual specimens, their constituent principles, localities and uses to which they may be applied; mineral waters, their situation, analysis and use in the arts, and in the cure of diseases, &c. A part of the work will be appropriated to such information as may be derived from foreign and domestic Journals. |