iv ADVERTISEMENT. 
It may not be amifs in this place to infert 
the Rules which the Society have adopted for 
the dire€tion of their Committees in the choice 
of papers for publication. 
First, “ That the grounds of the Com- 
«¢ mittee’s choice of papers for the prefs, fhould 
** always be the importance or fingularity of 
« the fubjects, or the advantageous manner of 
“ treating them, without pretending to an- 
* fwer, or to make the fociety anfwerable, 
‘ for the certainty of the facts, or propriety 
* of the reafonings, contained in the feveral 
“ papers fo publifhed, which mutt ftill reft on 
* the credit or judgment of their refpective 
« authors. 
SeconpLy, “ That neither the Society, nor 
«¢ the Committee of the prefs, do ever give 
‘their opinion as a body, upon any paper 
“they may publifh, or upon any fubje& of 
« Art or Nature that comes before them.” 
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