ADVERTISEMENT. 



The followifig are the Rules adopted for the government of 

 Coinvdttees iJi the choice of papers for publication. 



First. — " That the grounds of the Committee's choice of 

 '■'' papers for the press, should always be the importance or sin- 

 '■'■ gularitji of the subjects, or the advantageous manner oftreat- 

 " ing them, without prete?idi?ig to ansuer, or to make the 

 " Society answerable, for the certainty of the facts, or pro- 

 " priety of the reasonings, contained in the several papers so 

 ^^ published, xvhich must still rest on the credit or judgment of 

 " their respective authors." 



Secondly. — " That neither the Society nor the Committee of 

 " the press do ever give their opinion as a body upon any 

 " paper they may publish, or upon ariy subject of Art or Kature 

 "' that conies before iliem.'' 



