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calculated to promote a study so delightful and instructive, 

 he need hardly say, that his ambition will, in the most 

 ample degree, have been gratified.* 



* The following is the present establishment of the Isle of Wight Philoso- 

 phical Society. 



President. The Right Honourable LORD YARBOROUGH. 



v~.;j. t. S sir Richard Simeon, Bart. 

 Presents Lempriere> M<IX 



Treasurer. T. L. Wateorwrth, Esq. 

 Secretary. Abraham Clarke, Esq 



The Society assembles monthly during the winter season for the transaction 

 of business ; when a lecture is usually delivered at the Townhall by one of the 

 members upon any subject of natural history, or of general literature, which 

 be may think proper to select. 



Newport, Isle of Wight, 

 August, 1827. 



