4 OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



same honourable feelings will crown its undertaking with 

 entire success. • ^v *» * 



Among the methods by which the Society proposes to 

 accomplish its general design, — It hopes to contribute to 

 the diffusion of knowledge, by giving encouragement to 

 Public Lectures ; to forward the progress of investigation, 

 by providing Apparatus for the use of the experimentalist 

 and observer; and to facilitate the mutual communication of 

 philosophical ideas, by holding Meetings, at which 

 papers may be read, and oral information interchanged. 



Another of the Society's objects has been the establishment 

 of a Library, by means of which, persons of scientific 

 pursuits, in different parts of the County, may be enabled to 

 consult Books on the subjects of their respective studies, which 

 it might not be convenient for them individually to purchase ; 

 and, for that purpose, a Collection is making by degrees, of 

 the Transactions of Philosophical Societies, and other works 

 on Arts, Antiquities, Natural History, and the various 

 branches of Science ; a collection which, being necessarily 

 of an expensive kind, cannot be expected to be of 

 rapid growth, unless it should receive, from the liberality of 

 individual members, an augmentation beyond what the 

 Society's limited revenue can afford. 



To supply a kind of information which books cannot 

 adequately convey, the Society lias also founded a Museum, 

 where collections are accumulating of those objects of philo- 

 sophical enquiry, which, to be understood, require to be 



