fcfiS Sckntijic New, Actnmts ef 'Booii, &c. 



likely to receive an adequate return for any furn tlrey may advance, and alfo out of regard to 

 Mr. Wcldon, the perfons, named below, have agreed to aft as a committee of fuperln- 

 tendance. 



Soon after a fufiicienffum Ihall have been fubfcribed, Mr. Weldon will furnlfh (he fub- 

 fcribers with a lift of models and prices, from which each may choofe to tlie amount of his 

 fubfcription. A defcription and drawing will accompany the models; and they will be 

 contrived fo as to take to pieces, and its name will be fixed to each part, where this is 

 pra£licablc. 



Hereafter, if the undertaking profpers, the public may be accommodated with 4Jngle 

 models. But at prefent to fparc the committee's time, h is propofed : 



I. That no fubfcription of lefs than lol. be received. 



II. That every fubfcription not exceeding lol. be immediately advanced. Larger fub- 

 fcriptions may be paid by inftalments of lol. 



Thefe terms may ftartle many, even opulent, parents. And it is true that a fet of 

 iriftrufliive models will require a greater facrifice than has been cuftomary in education. 

 But as public opinion on this fubjeft is daily becoming more liberal, it may begin to be 

 felt that of all pofllble methods of confulting happinefs, to fubtra£l information for the 

 fake of adding to fortune, is the moft prepofterous. A few additional hundred pounds, 

 well laid out upon the boy, may more improve the condition of exiftence than the mines 

 of Potofi, bequeathed to the man. The ill-advifed niggardlinefs of parents is one principal 

 caufe why genius has fo feldom been exerted upon the means of early inftruftion, and 

 why the moft difficult of all occupations — that of forming the fyftem of thought and 

 feeling — has been fo often confided to perfons, whofe endowments are barely adequate to 

 the rudeft mechanical labour. 



COMMITTEE. 



THOMAS BEDDOES, M.D. Clifton. 



JOHN BILLINGSLEY, Efq. Afliwick- Grove. 



■WM. CLAYFIELD, Efq. Briftol. 



BENJ. HOBHOUSE, Efq. M. P. 



JOHN H. MOGGRIDGE, Efq. Boyce-Houfe. 



JAMES STEPHENS, Efq. Camerton-Hcufe. 



JOHN WEDGWOOD, Efq. Cote-Houfe. 



WM. WYNCH, Efq. London. 



Subfcriptions are received by 



SAVERT and Co. Bankers, Briftol. 



HOBHOUSE and Co. Bankers, Bath. 



V/M. REYNOLDS and Co. Bankers, Salop. 



SIR JOHN CALL PYBUS, Bart, and Co. Bankers, London. 



SIR JAMES ESDAILE and Co. Bankers, London. 

 ■%* Letters (poft-paid) addrefled to Mr. Weldon, Pneumatic Inftitution, Briftol, will 



Ijc duly attended to. 



