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APPENDIX. 



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RULES OF THE ASIATICK SOCIETY, 



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CIR WILLIAM JONES, the revered founder of 

 the Society, in his Discourse, delivered on the 

 15th February, 1784, and published in the first vo- 

 lume of these Researches, recommended that in the 

 infancy of the Society, there should be no formal rules. 

 Accordingly none were passed, but the suggestions 

 in the above discourse were unanimously adopted, and 

 having been since uniformly acted upon, they may 

 be considered the original rules of the institution. 

 They were, in substance, as follow : 



L That the Institution be denominated ihtAsia- 

 tick Society ; that the bounds of its investigations be 

 the geographical limits of Asia ; and that within these 

 limits, its inquiries be extended to whatever is per- 

 formed by man or produced by nature. 



II. That weekly meetings be held for the purpose 

 of hearing Original Papers read, on such subjects as 

 f:ill within the circle of the Society's inquiries. 



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