Sensible of this stigma, and desirous of rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance, which, in other respects, belongs so little to its character, a few Individuals, strongly impressed with a conviction of the practicability and utility of thus enlarging the fund of human knowledge, have formed the Plan of an Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. The nature of their Establishment will best appear from the following account of their proceedings. * * * * * At an ADJOURNED MEETING of the SATURDAY’S CLUB, at the _St. Alban’s 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 MEMBERS,_ * * * * * BISHOP OF LANDAFF, LORD CARYSFORT, SIR JOHN SINCLAIR: RESOLVED, That as no species of information is more ardently desired, or more generally useful, than that which improves the science of Geography; and as the vast Continent of Africa, notwithstanding the efforts of the Ancients, and the wishes of the Moderns, is still in a great measure unexplored, the Members of this Club do form themselves into an Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Inland Parts of that Quarter of the World: That, for the said purpose, each Member do subscribe Five Guineas a year, for three years; and that at, or after that period, any Member, on giving a year’s notice, may withdraw himself from the Association: That during the first twelve months from the present day, each of the Members of the Club be allowed to recommend, for the approbation of the Club, such of his Friends as he shall think proper to be admitted to the new Association; but that after that time all additional Members be elected by a Ballot of the Association at large: That a Committee, consisting of a Secretary and Treasurer, and of three Assisting Members, be chosen by Ballot: That the said Committee do prepare and submit to the consideration of the Members, at their next meeting, such Rules as they shall think requisite for the effectual attainment of the object of the new Institution, and for its good government: That the Committee be entrusted with the choice of the persons who are to be sent on the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, together with the Society’s Correspondence, and the Management of its Funds: That the Committee shall not disclose, except to the Members of the Association at large, such intelligence as they shall, from time to time, receive from the persons who shall be sent out on the business of Discovery: