ADVERTISE MEN T. 
T | H E Committee appointed by the Royal Society 
X t0 direCt the publication of the Philojophical 
< Tranfa5lions, take this opportunity to acquaint the 
public, that it fully appears, as well from the council- 
books and journals of the Society, as from repeated 
declarations, which have been made in feveral for- 
mer PranfaBionSy that the printing of them was al- 
ways, from time to time, the fingle a£t of the re- 
fpe&ive Secretaries, till the Forty-feventh Volume. 
And this information was thought the more neecffary, 
not only as it has been the common opinion, that they 
were published by the authority, and under the di- 
rection, of the Society itfelf; but alfo, becaule fevcfal 
authors, both at home and abroad, have in their writ- 
ings called them the PranfaBiom cf the Royal Society. 
Whereas in truth the Society, as a body, never did 
intereft themfelves any further in their publication, 
than by occafionally recommending the revival of 
them to fome of their fecretaries, when, from the par- 
ticular circum fiances of their affairs, tire P-anfaB ions 
had happened for any length of time to be intermitted. 
And this feems principally to have been done with a 
view to fatisfy the public, that their ufual meetings 
were then continued for the improvement of know- 
ledge, and benefit of mankind, the great ends of their 
firft inftitution by the Royal Charters, and which they 
have ever fmee Readily purfued. 
But the Society being of late years greatly inlarged, 
and their communications more numerous, it was 
thought advifeable, that a Committee of their Mem- 
bers fhould be appointed to reconfider the papers read 
before them, and feledt out of them fueh, as they 
a 2 fhould 
