THE SOCIETY OF IMPROVERS. 2/ 



formally pledged to active steps for the restoration of the 

 Stuarts. With 1745 there came 'the deluge,' either sweep- 

 ing aAvay, or, by arresting their activity, practically extin- 

 guishing many institutions. The Society of Improvers does 

 not appear to have survived the crisis. Its spirit lives, how- 

 ever, in the two Institutions to which it gave birth — the 

 Board of Manufactures and the Board of Fisheries. 



