Excerpt from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 2: Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge The Secretaries {hall fo fettle matters as to take equal {hares of all bufinefs, and fo as that two of them {hall ferve at every meeting, viz. One to take the minutes, and one to read all letters and papers that may be communi cated to the Society. It is alfo the bufinefs of the two Secretaries of each particular meeting, to copy into the minute-book the proceedings of that meeting, in order to produce the fame fair to the next meeting. They are fur ther to copy into the proper books all fuch letters, papers and elfays, as the Society may think fit to preferve on te cord, and to have the fame ready to be laid before the next meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.