It is designed as a deposit for original American communications; it will contain also occasional selections from Foreign Journals, and notices of the progress of Science in other countries. Within its plan are embraced
Natural History, in its three great departments of Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology.
Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, and their various branches: and Mathematics, pure and mixed.
It will be a leading object to illustrate American Natural History, and especially our Mineralogy and Geology.
The Applications of these sciences are obviously as numerous as physical arts, and physical wants; for no one of these arts or wants can be named which is not connected with them.
While Science will be cherished for its own sake, and with a due respect for its own inherent dignity; it will also be employed as the hand-maid to the Arts. Its numerous applications to Agriculture, the earliest and most important of them: to Manufactures, both mechanical and chemical; and, to Domestic Economy, will be carefully sought out, and faithfully made.
It is within the design of this Journal to receive communications likewise on Music, Sculpture, Engraving, Painting, and generally on the fine and liberal, as well as useful arts;
On Military and Civil Engineering, and the art of Navigation;
Notices, Reviews, and Analyses of new scientific works; accounts of Inventions, and Specifications of Patents;
Biographical and Obituary Notices of scientific men; essays on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, and generally on such other branches of medicine as depend on scientific principles;