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fcience. The other plan which they pro- 
pofe is that of colleéting accurate infor- 
mation of all that is curious and impor- 
tant in agriculture and natural hiftory 
throughout the whole department of La 
Gironde, which is to be done by the pa- 
tronage and affiftance of the central ad- 
miniftration. The fociety has according- 
ly addreffed circular letters, with proper 
queries, to the different adminiftrations of 
the rural cantons, and have already re- 
ceived anfwers from a few, which will 
highly promote the views of the fociety. 
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THE SOCIETY OF ARTS IN 
LONDON. 
Much of the attention of the Society 
has been engaged this {tffion in the 
eleGtion of a fecretary. It was expected 
by many, that Mr. Tuomas Tay- 
Lor, the affiftant fecretary, would not 
only have offered himfelf as a candidate 
for that fituation, but that he would 
have been the fuccefsful candidate. How- 
ever, having literally devoted himfelf to 
the doctrines of Plato, in perfe& confor- 
mity to his purfuits, and to his former 
conduét, he honourably refigned all pre- 
tenfions to the office ef principal fecretary, 
and facrificed emolument on the altar of 
philofophy. 
On the day of the diftribution of re- 
wards, his Grace, the Duke of Nor- 
FOLK, honoured the fociety, of which he is 
the prefident, with his attendance, and 
conduéted himfelf on the occafion with that 
eafe and dignity which are fo happily 
united in the manners of this nobleman, 
and which are fo eminently difplayed hy 
him in public. The Turkifh ambaffa- 
dor alfo was prefent ; and the affemblage 
of ladies and gentlemen was uncommonly 
numerous and f{plendid. 
The ceremony commenced by the fe- 
cretary, Mr CuarLes TayYLor, read- 
ing a well-written paper, compofed by 
him for. the purpofe, giving a fhort ac- 
count of the rife and progrefs of the fo- 
ciety, and enumerating fome of the prin- 
cipal advantages which the public had de- 
rived from its inftitution. The rewards 
were then diftributed, the moit important 
of which are the following. 
The gold medal to his Grace the Duke 
of BRipGrwarT eR, for his great and tuc- 
cefsful exertions in promoting inland na- 
vigations. The Rev. Francis EGer- 
TON, of Bridgewater-houfe, has fent to 
the fociety an account of an underground 
inclined plane, which the Duke has Jately 
made at Walkden Moor, between Wor- 
fley and Bolten, in Lancafhire; which 
Proceedings of Public Societies. 
[Auguft 1, 
account will be publifhed in the enfuing 
volume of the Society’s Tranfaétions. 
The Marquis of TifCHFIELD alfo 
received the gold medal for having planted 
49% acres of Jand with acorns. 
The gold medal was likewife given to 
Tuomas Jounes, Efy. M. P. of Hafod, 
North Wales, for having planted 400,000 
larch trees. 
Mr. Jones, chemift, of Fith-fireet- 
hill, received two premiums ; one for cul- 
tivating 4053 plants of the true rhubarb, 
and the other for baving procured 211b. 
7oz. of opium, from poppies grown in 
Great Britain. The rhubarb bids fair to 
rival the Turkey; and a very refpeétable 
teftimony in favour of the virtues of the 
opium has been given from fome medical 
gentlemen of the firft eminence. 
The Rev. Henry Bare DupLey, of 
Bradwell-Lodge, ‘Tillingham, received 
the gold medal, for having gained 206 
acres of land from the fea. 
In rhe polite Arts, an elegant and ac- 
complifhed young lady, Milfs Exiza 
Barrer, of Stockwell, diftinguifhed her- 
f{elf, by fending a varnifhed drawing of a 
Jandfcape, for which fhe received the gold 
medal, 7 
In Mechanics, Mr. Tuomas RESTALLs 
of Farlington, received a premium ef 40 
guineas, for the invention of a parith or 
family-mil!, which premifes to be of great 
public utility. The peculiar excelience 
of this mill is, that aétion can be given 
to it without the intervention of wheels, 
from the vertical pofition of the ftones. 
One hundred pounds were given to the 
widow and children of the late Mr. Ricn~ 
arp Bowes, of Conway, North Wales, 
for fpecimens of mill-ftones, as a fubfti- 
tute for the French burr, and accounts of 
amine thereof, near Conway. 
MreS. Houmes, of the Strand, Lon- 
don, received a premium for a cheap and 
ufeful family oven. 
And Mr. ALEXANDER MACKENZIE 
had the gold medal, for the difcovery of 
a paflage by land from Upper Canada to 
the South Sea. 
Other premiums were alfo prefented to 
the Rev. W. SmitrH, of Craike, near 
Eafingwould, for planting t1$ acres of 
land with forelt trees —To Joun Lake, 
Efq. ot Kadfield, Kent, for planting fix 
acres with apple trees. ——To Joun CarT- 
WRIGHT, Efq. for planting 60 acres with 
fuceeffive crops of beans and wheat.—To 
Joun MircuHouse, Efq. of Brownflade, 
Pembrokefhire.— To MifsFRANCESTAL- 
BOT,of Wymondham.—To Mifs Cuar- 
LOTTE Lyyop, of Afton, near Ofwefry. 
—Mils 
