Excerpt from Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 17: With the Premiums Offered in the Year 1799 Secretary to this Society, being the firfi: perfon who enjoyed that title: this fitua tion he held, with high reputation to him felt, and acknowledged credit to the So ciety, till his death, which happened in the month of September, 1769, much to the regret of all who had the happinefs of his acquaintance, and greatly lamented by the Members of the Society, to which he had ever directed his attention, and continued a laborious and indefatigable officer. 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.