An anniversary discourse, on the state and prospects of the Western museum society : delivered by appointment, in the chapel of the Cincinnati college, June 10th, 1820, on the opening of the museum / By Daniel Drake, M.D., secretary of the society.

  • Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852.
Date:
1820
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Credit: An anniversary discourse, on the state and prospects of the Western museum society : delivered by appointment, in the chapel of the Cincinnati college, June 10th, 1820, on the opening of the museum / By Daniel Drake, M.D., secretary of the society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    AIPIPHTIIDII^ 1 HE Managers of the Western Museum Society avail them, selves of the opportunity afforded by the distribution of the preceding Discourse, to propose exciiangxs with other So- cieties, and with individual collectors at a distance. The principal articles, which they can send abroad with convenience, are—geological specimens of the secondary rocks of the basin of the Ohio, with their organic remains, and accompanying minerals; preserved specimens of the mammalia, birds, fishes, amphibia, Crustacea, mollusca, in- sects and worms of the same region ; grinders of the mas- todon and arctic elephant; Indian implements, and aborigi- nal relics taken from mounds and tumuli. In exchange for any of these, they'will be glad to receive from the Eastern states and from Europe, foreign zoological, geological and mineralogical specimens of every kind; also manufactures and trinkets from the islands of the Pacific Ocean; coins and medals; paintings, casts from statues, and fragments of sculpture, of such excellence as to serve for models;—and finally, Books, in the various departments of physical science, whether written in the English, French or German languages. As an Herbarium is contemplated among the future ac- quisitions of the Society, and as the Managers are desirous of promoting the introduction and cultivation of exotic plants, they will be pleased to receive any valuable seeds and roots of other countries, and will, in return, transmit such of our indigenous vegetable productions as may be requested.