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Excerpt from The Literary Record and Journal of the Linnaean Association of Pennsylvania College, Vol. 1: Conducted by a Committee of the Association
At the very commencement of its operations a committee OF pub lication had been appointed for the purpose of giving to the press those communications addressed to the Association, which might seem worthy of public notice. But, in addition to this, it soon became evident to the zealous and studious members of the Association, that they were greatly in want of fundamental and elementary instruction in the various departments of Natural Science, to which they were devoted, and the fact of their having so many men of high scientific and literary attain ments connected with them, suggested the idea that they might obtain from them precisely what they needed. It was with this object that the publication of our periodical was undertaken, and having ascertained that the number of subscribers necessary to sustain it could be obtained, they committed its management to the Publishing Committee, consist ing of one of the Professors of Pennsylvania College, a Professor in the Medical Department located in Philadelphia, the Principal of a Select Mathematical and Classical School in Gettysburg, and two Graduates of Pennsylvania College, who have distinguished themselves by their zeal and energy in this matter. The Chairman of this committee having already had some experience as an Editor, they requested him to act in that capacity, leaving the arrangement of the materials to his discretion.
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