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: