I have received your letter of the  1 instant, annexed to your prospectus of the Scientific Journal. The Work, according to the scope allotted to it, can not fail to be interesting, both as a mode of preserving and distributing the fruits of American Science, and of animating the cultivation of it. With this view of the subject, I sincerely wish success to your undertaking; and though I generally decline subscriptions to new publications, particularly such as are of indefinite continuance, I shall with pleasure forward you the sum due for one year, on my receiving the first number of the Journal. Be pleased to accept my friendly respects