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PLAN OF THE 
from a charge of ignorance, which, in other refpeds, belongs 
fo Httle to its character, a few Individuals, ftrongly imprelTed 
with a convidion of the pradicability and utility of thus en- 
larging the fund of human knowledge, have formed the Plan 
of an Aflbciation for Promoting the Difcovery of the Interior 
Parts of Africa, 
The nature of their Eftablifhment will beft appear from the 
following account of their proceedings. 
At an Adjourned Meeting of the Saturday's Club, 
at the Sl Albans Tavern^ on the 9th of June^ 1788, 
PRESENT, 
EARL OF GALLOWAY, 
LORD RAWDON, 
GENERAL CONWAY, 
SIR ADAM FERGUSSON' 
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, 
SIR WILLIAM FORDYCE, 
MR. PULTNEY, 
MR. BEAUFOY, 
MR. STUART: 
ABSENT, 
