CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons_A

SOCIETIES FOR SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL PURPOSES.

J )e t kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskab , or, The Danish Royal S o c ie ty , founded 1742, in the reign o f C hristian V I. Its object is , like th e R o y al Societies o f L o n d o n , St. P etersb u rg , B e rlin , and A cadem ie des Sciences o f P a r is , to p ro p ag ate science — M athem atics, A stro nom y, N a­ tu ral P hilo so p h y in all its branches, &c. — by the publication o f p ap ers and e ssa y s, for w hich p re ­ m ium s are som etim es aw arded. The Geographical Survey o f the D an ish K ingdom , an d the publication o f its m aps, is under the charge o f this Society. In the m iddle o f the last century this Society comm enced, und er the superintendence o f its own com m ittee, a D an ish D ic tio n a ry , w h ich , how ever, has as y et only reached the letter T. B u t, as rules and notions w ere p rev alen t w hen the D ictionary w as comm enced w hich are now discarded, it is feared by all intelligent D anes th at this N ational