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was kept up I have not been able to discover: prob- 

 ably not more than four years, as I find at the time 

 of the Treaty for a union with the Society for Pro- 

 moting Useful Knowledge, among other objections 

 made by the latter Society to be merged in the other 

 by a simple election of all its members by the Philo- 

 sophical Society, that the latter had not held any 

 meetings for twenty years and this was probably 

 true. 



It was however still thought to exist by its surviv- 

 ing members, who met in November 1767, elected a 

 large number of new members chiefly of the friends of 

 the Proprietaries & richest men of the Province, as 

 well as some few from other parts of America, chose 

 Governor James Hamilton their President, and recom- 

 menced their regular Meetings after the old plan. 

 The letter read last Friday Evening addressed by 

 the Eev d Provost Smith, one of the Secretaries to 

 Governor Hamilton, with the thin Minute Book in our 

 possession shew that their attention was directed to 

 Science and that they had already taken measures for 

 observing the Transit of Venus. 



It was, I believe, by this Society that the proposal 

 was first made for an incorporation with the Ameri- 

 can Society for promoting Useful Knowledge. In 

 February, 1768 they elected all its Members into the 

 Philosophical Society, but it was not until the 2 d of 

 June, 1769 that the Union was effected under the joint 

 name we at present bear. 



