USEFUL PROJECTS. 



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manufactures, and with our national 

 wealth and happiness. 



The more immediate personal 

 privileges of the members will be, 

 First,— That of electing, annually, 

 a council of managers, consisting of 

 a president, secretary, and fifteen 

 ordinary members ; and a commit- 

 tee of visiters, consisting of a trea- 

 surer and fifteen ordinary members. 

 The president and managers to con- 

 duct the affairs of the Institution, 

 and the visiters to examine and re- 

 port as to the conduct; eight of 

 the managers and eight visiters to 

 change every year. 



Second, — The members willhave 

 the use of the library, collection of 

 minerals, and collection of models. 



Third, — The members may give 

 their opinion on, and ask the ad- 

 vice of, the body, and report on 

 any matter connected with the In- 

 stitution or its objects, at any of 

 the public meetings. 



Fourth, — The members willhave 

 a right of sending to the Institu- 

 tion any specimens of minerals or 

 substances hkely to be useful in 

 arts or manufactures, with a request 

 that they may be examined, and, 

 if necessary, analyzed and reported 

 upon, and their probable applica- 

 tions stated. 



Fifth, — The members will have 

 the right of proposing new useful 

 investigations to committees ap- 

 pointed by the managers. 



When discoveries are made in 

 the laboratories of the Institution, 

 connected with the advancement of 

 general science, abstracts or no- 

 tices of them shall be published in 

 the journals, which shall appear 

 at least quarterly, and which shall 

 contain a general account of all in- 

 ventions, useful projects, or new 



scientific facts, brought forward in 

 any part of the world; but as it will 

 be greatly for the advantage of the 

 establishment, that it should be 

 connected with the Royal Society, 

 which, from the era of its founda- 

 tion, has uniformly patronized all 

 plans for promoting and promul- 

 gating natural knowledge; it is pro- 

 posed that a full and circumstan- 

 tial detail of every advance made in 

 science in the Royal Institution 

 shall be presented to the Royal So- 

 ciety, to be inserted in the publi- 

 cations of that body, the inestima- 

 ble records of the progressof English 

 science. 



It is conceived that in an esta- 

 blishment, ofiering to its members 

 so many advantages, and so wor- 

 thy of patronage on account of its 

 objects, there would be no want 

 of funds ; the common laws of 

 mortality would assist in their sup- 

 port. And, when it is honourable 

 to belong to a body, candidates 

 will be never wanting. — The great 

 landed and mineral proprietors of 

 the country would be anxious to 

 support an establishment which af- 

 forded them the means of estimat- 

 ing the uses of the productions of 

 their estates, and scientific men 

 would cheerfully co-operate in as- 

 sisting a scheme affording them the 

 means of pursuing useful investiga- 

 tions, and which would connect 

 together theoretical and practical 

 knowledge. 



The admission of one hundrednew 

 members at the composition, would, 

 there is every reason to believe, af- 

 ford a fundfully adequate to buy off 

 the disposable shares of the proper- 

 ty. Andit may be computed, that 

 if the number of members equal- 

 led from 600 to 700, ample funds 



vfould 



