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