_3tio._ In order that the proprietors of the Institution and the subscribers may have the earliest notice of all new discoveries and useful improvements that shall be made, from time to time, not only in this country, but also in all the different parts of the world, the managers will employ the proper means for obtaining, as early as possible, from every part of the British Empire, and from all foreign countries, authentic accounts of all such new and interesting discoveries in the various branches of science, and in arts and manufactures, and also of all such new and useful mechanical improvements as shall be made; and a room will be set apart in the Institution where all such information will be lodged, and where it will be kept for the sole and exclusive use and inspection of the proprietors and subscribers, and where no stranger will ever be admitted. At a general meeting of the proprietors, held at the house of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., in Soho Square, on the 7th day of March, 1799, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks in the chair, the following list of the proprietors and original subscribers of fifty guineas each was read: Sir Robert Ainslie, Bart. J. J. Angerstein, Esq. Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. Thomas Bernard, Esq. Scrope Bernard, Esq., M.P. The Earl of Besborough. Rowland Burdon, Esq., M.P. James Burton, Esq. Timothy Brent, Esq. Henry Cavendish, Esq. Rich. Clarke, Esq., Chamb. of London. Sir John Colpoys, K.B. John Craufurd, Esq. The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Andrew Douglas, Esq. The Lord Bishop of Durham. The Earl of Egremont. George Ellis, Esq., M.P. Joseph Grote, Esq. Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bart. Sir John Cox Hippesley, Bart. Henry Hoare, Esq. John Spalding, Esq., M.P. The Earl Spencer, K.G. Sir George Staunton, Bart. John Sullivan, Esq. Richard Joseph Sulivan, Esq. Lord Teignmouth. John Thomson, Esq. Lord Hobart. Lord Holland. Henry Hope, Esq. Thomas Hope, Esq. Lord Keith, K.B. William Lushington, Esq., M.P. Sir John Macpherson, Bart., M.P. William Manning, Esq., M.P. The Earl of Mansfield. The Earl of Morton, K.T. Lord Ossulston. Thomas Palmer, Esq. The Lord Viscount Palmerston, M.P. Edward Parry, Esq. Right Hon. Thomas Pelham, M.P. John Penn, Esq. William Morton Pitt, Esq., M.P. Sir James Pulteney, Bart., M.P. Sir John Buchanan Riddell, Bart. Count Rumford. Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P. Lord Somerville. Samuel Thornton, Esq., M.P. Henry Thornton, Esq., M.P. George Vansittart, Esq., M.P. William Wilberforce, Esq., M.P. The Earl of Winchelsea. Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P. Sir William Young, Bart., M.P. _The following Resolutions were agreed to unanimously:_