OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. VOLUME VI. PUBLISHED BY C. AND A. CONRAD AND CO. PHILADELPHIA. CONRAD, LUCAS AND CO. CONRAD AND CO. NORFOLK. [JANE AITKEN, PRINTER.] District of Pennsylvania. TO WIT: (L. S.) BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of July, in the thirty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1809, C. & A. Conrad and Company, of said district have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at "Philadelphia, for promoting useful Knowledge. VoL. VI." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intituled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," And also to the act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints. D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District Court of Pennsylvania. 1 First. “That the grounds of the Committee's "choice of papers for the should always be 66 press, or an " the importance or singularity of the subjects, “the advantageous manner of treating them, without "pretending to answer, or to make the Society “swerable, for the certainty of the facts, or propriety " of the reasonings, contained in the several papers published, which must still rest on the credit " or judgment of their respective authors. "or 66 6650 Secondly. "That neither the Society, 66 Committee of the do ever nor the press, give their opinion "as a body, upon any paper they may publish, upon any subject of Art or Nature that comes " before them.""" 66 or 66 |