150 B^yal Academy of Sciences of Paris. 



I would propose that tlie following official gentlemen should 

 always be governors: — 



The Lord Warden of the Stannaries. 



The Vice Wardens of Devon and Cornwall. 



The Surveyor General of the Duchy of Cornwall. 



The Great Barmaster of the King's Field in Derbyshire. 



The Pi'esident of the Royal Society. 



The President of the Geological Society. 



The President of the Royal Cornwall Geological Society. 



The Professors of Geology and Mineralogy of Oxford 



and Cambridge. 

 The Secretary of Greenwich Hospital. 

 Ten Gentlemen to be named by the ten principal Copper 



Mines in Cornwall. 

 Four Gentlemen by the four principal Tin Mines. 

 Two Gentlemen by the Copper Companies. 

 And that each mine, out of Cornwall or Devon, which should 

 contribute 10/. a year and upwards, should name a governor; 

 and each individual whose personal subscription should be 51. 

 a year should be a governor. 



The committee of management should probably continue in 

 office for three years, a proportion of the number going out 

 by rotation annually, their successors being elected by the 

 governors. 



The meetings of the committee of management to be held at 

 the mstitution, and those of the governors might be held once 

 a year in London. 



All this, however, is respectfully submitted for discussion, 

 not doubting but that many improvements and corrections of 

 this imperfect sketch may be supplied by the intelligence and 

 experience of my mining friends. 



London, Feb. 7, 1825. JoHN Taylor. 



P. S. If this proposal should meet with the approbation I 

 am encouraged to hope for, I would suggest that it should first 

 be considered by a meeting of the adventurers in the mines of 

 Cornwall, who would determine whether they would afford to 

 it that kind of support which 1 have ventured to propose. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF PARIS. 



May 2. — M. Bogros read a memoir on the structure of the 

 nerves. — M. Moreau de Jonnes commenced the reading of a 

 memoir, entitled, " Monographic researches on the indige- 

 nous dog of the American hemisphere ; the different species, 

 their synonymy, forms, habits, domestic uses, extinction, geo- 

 graphical distribution, and migrations: and the notions to 



which 



