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Philosophical Society in Bristol after the example of Londoii, 

 Edinburgh, Liverpool, Dublin, and some other great towns of 

 the empire ; but, from the intervention of some cause or other, 

 circumstances have continually occurred to delay the execu- 

 tion of so desirable an object. There is now, however, but 

 little doubt, from the zeal which is manifested by the inhabitants 

 of Bristol, for adding so useful an institution to the city and 

 so great an ornament to its taste and opulence ; that what the 

 friends of this institution have been so long, so sedulously, and 

 so laudably endeavouring to effect, will be attended with the 

 completest success. It is unnecessary to enter into a detail of 

 the advantages to society, commerce, and the arts, which have 

 uniformly been derived in other places from establishments of 

 this kind ; they are too familiar to every well-informed mind 

 to need any comment or observation. Justice, however, re- 

 quires it should be known, that the patrons of this institution 

 have formed their plans upon the broadest basis of enlightened 

 liberality. Besides the cultivation and diffusion of the nobler 

 sciences, and the prosecution of whatever is likely to be of real 

 benefit or utility to the community and the rising generation, 

 they intend to make this institution a focus, in which to collect 

 and concentrate, not only the scattered rays of genius and ability 

 of Bristol, but also of all true lovers of scientific pursuits ; to 

 confine their patronage to no particular branch or branches of 

 science, but to extend and afford the utmost encouragement 

 for the development of talent, in every department of useful 

 knowledge and literature. 



10. Liverpool Museum — A public museum of natural history 

 has recently been attached to the Royal Liverpool Institution, 

 and which was opened to the proprietors and strangers on the 

 1 St of the new year. The opulence of that town, and the ex- 

 tensive intercourse it is hourly carrying on with all quarters of 

 the globe^ have long excited surprise that a public repository 

 for the productions of distant countries has not been sooner 

 established ; it is, however, expected that the liberality of its 

 inhabitants and of the friends of science will soon increase the 

 foundation now laid of such a laudable undertaking, as many 



