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mechanical improvements as shall be made; and a room 

 will be set apart in the Institution where all such informa- 

 tion will be lodged, and where it will be kept for the sole 

 and exclusive use and inspection of the proprietors and 

 subscribers, and where no stranger will ever be admitted. 



At a general meeting of the proprietors, held at the 

 house of the Eight Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., 

 K.B., in Soho Square, on the 7th day of March, 1799, 

 the Eight Hon. Sir Joseph Banks in the chair, the 

 following list of the proprietors and original subscribers 

 of fifty guineas each was read : 



Sir Robert Ainslie, Bart. 

 J. J. Angerstein, Esq. 

 Eight Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. 

 Thomas Bernard, Esq. 

 Scrope Bernard, Esq.,M.P. 

 The Earl of Besborough. 

 Eowland Bxirdon, Esq., M.P. 

 James Burton, Esq. 

 Timothy Brent, Esq. 

 Henry Cavendish, Esq. 

 Eich. Clarke, Esq., Chamb. of Lon- 

 don. 



Sir John Colpoys, K.B. 

 John Craufurd, Esq. 

 The Duke of Devonshire, KG. 

 Andrew Douglas, Esq. 

 The Lord Bishop of Durham. 

 The Earl of Egremont. 

 George Ellis, Esq., M.P. 

 Joseph Grote, Esq. 

 Sir Eobert Bateson Harvey, Bart. 

 Sir John Cox Hippesley, Bart. 

 Henry Hoare, Esq. 

 John Spalding, Esq., M.P. 

 The Earl Spencer, KG. 

 Sir George Staunton, Bart. 

 John Sullivan, Esq. 

 Eichard Joseph Sulivan, Esq. 

 Lord Teignmouth. 

 John Thomson, Esq. 



Lord Hobart. 



Lord Holland. 



Henry Hope, Esq. 



Thomas Hope, Esq. 



Lord Keith, K.B. 



William Lushington, Esq., M.P. 



Sir John Macpherson, Bart., M.P. 



"William Manning, Esq., M.P. 



The Earl of Mansfield. 



The Earl of Morton, K.T. 



Lord Ossulston. 



Thomas Palmer, Esq. 



The Lord Viscount Palmerston, 



M.P. 



Edward Parry, Esq. 

 Eight Hon. Thomas Pelham, M.P. 

 John Penn, Esq. 

 William Morton Pitt, Esq., M.P. 

 Sir James Pulteney, Bart., M.P. 

 Sir John Buchanan Eiddell, Bart. 

 Count Eumford. 

 Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P. 

 Lord Somerville. 

 Samuel Thornton, Esq., M.P. 

 Henry Thornton, Esq., M.P. 

 George Vansittart, Esq., M.P. 

 William Wilberforce, Esq., M.P. 

 The Earl of Winchelsea. 

 Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P. 

 Sir William Young, Bart., M.P. 



