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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