To the president and members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subtitle: Gentlemen, As that season of the year is approaching, in which a general apprehension of danger from lightning is most excited, a few remarks, on the various means of seeking safety, may call attention to facts, from which may be deduced some useful rules of conduct during thunder. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12408
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Lightning
Notes: Proposing "that a committee be appointed for the purpose of collecting information respecting lives which have been lost by lightning ... and of the attendant circumstances ... as they relate to the situation of the person ... whether sheltered or exposed" and that said committee "solicit intelligence ... by public request in the newspapers."

Signed: Benjamin Dearborn. Boston, 26th May, 1807.

Followed by: Read and committed to Benjamin Dearborn, Esq. Rev. Dr. Lathrop, and Rev. Dr. Eliot. John Davis, rec. sec'ry. ... Printers in every part of the Union ... are requested to give the preceding publication admission into their respective papers.

Shaw & Shoemaker 12408

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