contained in a Memorial written by Benson J. Lossing, the historian, and read before the Now York Historical Society in 1870.  This was printed for the subscribers and had a small circulation.  In addition several fugitive articles have appeared in different periodicals, and the "History of American Wood-Engraving" contains a brief account of its founder.
   In preparing the present work, the author has carefully studied the existing material, and has made numerous extracts from the Diary of Dr. Anderson for the years 1795-1798.  These extracts are particularly interesting, as throwing a side light on the details of an uneventful but worthy and useful career.
   The illustrations, nearly forty in numbers have been selected as showing his progress in the art from his earliest woodcuts for " The Looking Glass for the Mind" to his own portrait, engraved in his best style in his eighty-first year.
Thanks are due to the many kind friends who have given their advice and assistance, and the author gladly takes this opportunity of acknowledging his special obligation to the following, gentlemen: To Mr.  George H.  Baker, Librarian of Columbia College, for the unrestricted use of Dr.  Anderson's Diary, 

now preserved in manuscript in the Phoenix Collection; to Mr. William Kelby, Librarian of the New York Historical Society, for much valuable information, and to Mr. W. W. Pasko of "The Typothetae."     F. M. B.
      NEW YORK, March, 1893

From "The Looking Glass for the Mind." One of Dr. Anderson's earliest wood-cuts.