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the Committee appointed to confer with Count Rumford 

 reported that they had had a conference with the Count, 

 and that they were satisfied that the Institution proposed 

 by him would be extremely beneficial and interesting to 

 the community ; that, in order to provide the pecuniary 

 funds of the Society at its commencement, it was proposed 

 that subscribers of fifty guineas each should be the 

 perpetual proprietors of the Institution, and be entitled 

 each to perpetual transferable tickets for the lectures and 

 for admission to the apartments of the Institution ; and 

 that as soon as thirty such subscribers offered it was 

 proposed to call a meeting of those thirty subscribers, in 

 order to lay the plan before them and elect managers for 

 the Institution. 



'Resolved, That the said report be approved of, and 

 that it be referred to the gentlemen of the Select Committee 

 to communicate the outlines of the plan to the members of 

 the Committee of the Society, and to such other persons 

 as they shall think fit, desiring that those who wish to have 

 their names inserted among the original subscribers to the 

 Institution would communicate their wish to the Special 

 Committee. 



* Extracted from the Minutes. 



' M. MARTIN, Secretary.' 



In consequence of this resolution a paper was printed by 

 the gentlemen of the Select Committee containing the 

 outlines of the plan, and sent round privately among their 

 friends and others whom they thought likely to counte- 

 nance the scheme, accompanied by a printed copy of the 

 foregoing resolution, with a request that those who were 

 willing to allow their names to be put down among the 

 original subscribers and proprietors of the Institution 

 would be so good as to communicate their intentions by a 



