for dijfajing Knowledge, &c. bit 



ibode attached to it, and the price at which he can furnifti 

 it; fuch fpecimen having been examined and approved by 

 the managers. 



The defign or objecl of the Institution is not to give 

 rewards to the authors of ingenious inventions, but to dif- 

 fufe the knowledge of fuch improvements as bid fair to be 

 of general ufe, and to facilitate the general introduction of 

 them ; and to excite and affift the ingenious and the enter- 

 prifing by the difhinon of fcience, and by awakening a fpirit 

 of inquiry. 



In order that the proprietors of the Inftitution, and the 

 fubferibers, may have the earlieft notice of all new difco- 

 veries and ufeful improvements that ihall be made from 

 time to time, not only in this country, but alfo in all the 

 different parts of the world, the managers will employ the 

 proper means for obtaining, as early as poflible, from every 

 part of the Britifh empire, and from all foreign countries, 

 authentic accounts of all fuch new and interefting difcoveries 

 in the various branches of fcience, and in arts and manu- 

 factures, and alfo of all fuch new and ufeful mechanical 

 improvements as (hall be made ; and a room will be fet 

 apart in the Inititution, where all fuch information will be 

 lodged, and where it will be kept for the fole and exclufive 

 ufe and inflection of the proprietors and fubferibers, and 

 where no ftranger will ever be admitted. 



Several refolutions adopted at a general meeting of the 

 proprietors, held at the houfe of the Right Honourable Sir 

 Jofeph Banks, Bart. K. B. in Soho Square, on the 7th day 

 of March 1799, having been publifhed in the daily papers, 

 peed not be here repeated. 



The following lift of the proprietors, and original fub- 

 feribers of 50 guineas each, deferves, however, to be re- 

 corded in the prefent account of the Inftitution : 



Sir Robert Ainflie, Bart. Scrope Bernard, Efq. M.P. 



I. J. Angcrttcin, Efq. The Earl of Befborough. 



Right Hon. Sir Jofeph Banks, K. B. Rowland Burdon, Efq. M. P. 

 Thwnas Bernard, Efq. James Burton, Sfq. 



Timothy 



