8s Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
No person shall receive any premium, bounty, or encouragement, from the Sauiely: 
for any matter for which he has obtained, or purposes to obtain, a patent, or for which 
he has obtained, or expects any premium or reward from any other Society. 
' & eandidate for a premium, or a person applying for a bounty, being detected in any 
Siethanis method to impose on the Society, shall forfeit such eet and be deemed 
incapable of obtaining any for the future. 
No member of this Society shall be a candidate for, or entitled to receive, any pre- 
inium, bounty, or reward whatsoever, except:the honorary medal of the Society. The 
candidates are, in all cases, expected to furnish a particular account of the subject of 
their. claims ; ‘and where certificates are required to be produced in claim ef pre- 
miums, they should be expresed, as nearly as possible, in the words of the respective 
advertisements, ane be signed by persons who have a positive Roowledee of the facts 
stated. 
‘Where Py eRe or Bautties are obtained in consequence of, specimens produced, the 
7 Society mean to retain such part of those specaens as they, may judge neveearyg making 
a reasonable allowance for the same. 
No candidate, not a member, shall be present at any meetings of the Society or .com- 
mittees, or admitted at the Society’s rooms, after they have oie ae! a aoe 
until such claims are adjudged, unless summoned by the Committee, j 
The Society, anxious to promote the Arts of their country, have ac ott d the resolution 
of forming a Collection of Prints, to be open for public inspection ; an eat ¢ arranged 
those already in their possession, invite engravers to send etched or "finished proofs.of their ») 
plates: and hope that amateurs, collectors, and gS of he ig RS also con. a, 
tribute to the undertaking. . on? Beat 
Prints of machines, or maps, will; also. ‘come within th - \ Pint 
-The Society farther invite the ‘communications of scientific and practical 4, =a all 
subjects connected with the views of the Society, although their ois ments may have 
been conducted upon a smaller scale than the terms” required by the premiums; as such 
communications may afford ground for more extensive taba a whee a materially mS 
contribute to the advantage of the public. » ae e % 
The Library of the Society, which eat day become v Ty valuable, may yet receive 
considerable additions and improvements from the presen’ of members, or other persons 
' who may be inclined to place usef | books or valuable manuscripts in a repository, = 
once: permanent and conducive to the national benefit. ~ = 
All communications are to be made by letter, addressed to CHARLES Tay OR, M. D. the 
Secretary; at the Society of Arts, & cw Adelphi, ‘London. P 
And where articles are sent by Sea for the Society, the Bills of Eoaiad are to be ade 
dressed-to the care of WitttAM VAUGHAN, , Esq. Mincing-lane, ey ‘who has’ politely 
undertakea to receive them for the Society. e 
The Winchester bushel is the measure referred to for grain ; and, as the acrés of dif- 
ferent districts vary. in extent, it is necessary to observe, that the Society mean Statute 
Acres of five and a half yards to the rod or pole, when acres are mentioned in their list 
of premiums; ; and they request that all communications to them may be made agreeably” 
thereto. 
The Society desire that the Papers on different subjects sent to them may be full, clear, 
explicit,’ fit for publication, and rather in the form of Essays than of Letters; and that 
scriptive Drawings may be sent, with the Models and Machines laid before the Society. 
N.B: The Society considering that it would be beneficial to the Commerce of the United — 
Kingdom to bring the British Marbles into more general 1 use, and that the most effectual 
~ method. of accomplishing their object would be, for the present, ‘to make aoe mnre, BOE 
rally known in tite capital, have come to the allowing resolutions :— 
Resolved,—That specimens of British Marbles be exposed in the Society’s Rais at 
the Adelphi, for thei inspection of the public, under the foll owing regulations :, 
Ist, That all the specimens be exact to a given size, viz. eight anges high, six inches 
. broad, one inch thick, and polished on one. face. 
2d. That a book be kept, containing the number of each specimen, and describing the 
situation of the quarry, the name of the ¢ meric where situated, the distance of the quarry 
from a beaten read, and the distance 
of the donoriand proprietor. Any remarks 0) on the qualities of the marbles, or on the lime 
that road from water-carriage, with the name 
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produced from them, will be gratefully reerjned aud preserved by the Society, as mate A 
for future inquiries. 
Resolved ,—That as the exertions of 4Higs Society. can be beneficial to the poiege | 
inasmuch as their views are seconded A byt the public, the Society request, that all Bee S - 
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proprietors.of marble quarries, will ur them with a specimen of the 1 arble, worked — 
to the exact size above spention ned, with the description of the quarry as above, that the 
same may be entered in the book to be preserved for the use of the public. By such. ar- 
rangements, it is expected that the interest of the proprietors of the i areas will be pro-. 
moted, and the use of British marble pee extended. A variety are already exhibited 
in the Society s Great Room. A 
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