CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons

S O C IE T IE S FO R S C IE N T IF IC AND U SEFU L

PURPO SES.

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

of the Danish

Kingdom, and the publication of its maps, is under

the charge of this Society.

In the middle o f the last century this Society

commenced, under the superintendence of its own

comm ittee, a D anish D ictionary, w hich, however,

has as yet only reached the letter T.

B u t, as

rules and notions were prevalent when the D ictionary

was commenced which are now discarded, it is

feared by all intelligent Danes that this National