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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS FOR SCOTLAND. 



Donation of L. 400 b^ Sir David Brewster and Dr James KeitJi, 

 Trustees of the Keith Bequest ybr the prosecution of Science. 



At a Meeting of Council, held on 17th April 1833, the Secre- 

 tary read a letter from Sir David Brewster and Dr James Keith, 

 the surviving Trustees of the fund bequeathed by the late Alex- 

 ander Keith of Dunottar and Ravelstone, Esq., dated the 8th of 

 April current, offering to present to the Society op Arts at Whit- 

 sunday 1833, the sum of four hundred pounds, out of the fund 

 under their management,' — to be invested in the manner, for the 

 purposes, and under the conditions mentioned in that letter, which 

 is of the following tenor : — 



" To Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. 

 and the other Members of Council 

 of the Society of Arts for Scot- 

 LAND. } April 8. 1833. 



" Gentlemen, — Having been appointed by the late Alexander 

 Keith, Esq. of Dunottar, Trustees for managing a sum of L. 1000, 

 which he bequeathed for the purpose of promoting the interests of 

 Science and the Arts in Scotland, — we hereby offer to the Society 

 of Arts, at Whitsunday next, the sum of Four hundred pounds 

 Sterling, to be held in trust by their Vice-Presidents , Secretary, and 

 Treasurer, and their successors in office, for the purpose of encourag- 

 ing the useful Arts in Scotland. 



" The principal sum of L. 400, must be invested in the names of 

 the Office-bearers above mentioned, in some public or private securi- 

 ty, which shall be approved of by the Council of the Society. 



" This sum is on no account to be encroached upon ; but the In- 

 terest arising from it is to be applied in sums of money, or medals, 

 in rewarding Inventions, Improvements, or Discoveries, in the Use- 

 ful Arts, which shall be primarily submitted to the Society. 



" We leave it to the discretion of the Council to determine whether 

 the rewards are to be given in medals, or money, or both ; and also 

 to fix upon the periods of their adjudication. But it is distinctly to 

 be understood, that these prizes are to be kept separate from the 

 other prizes adjudged by the Society ; that they are to be distin- 

 guished by the name of the Keith Prizes, and that when they are 

 given in the form of medals, the medal shall bear some inscription, 

 pr device, indicating the original Donor. 



