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upon an eligible central site, where a large and handsome building could be erected worthy of containing the concentration of the literary and scientific talent of the country. A large entrance hall, ornamented with paintings and sculpture allegorical and descriptive of the sciences would communicate with the suite of rooms appropriated to each society -- viz. a meeting room, Secretary's and library, the same arrangement to be carried out on the next floor. There should also be apartments for a resident Manager, and a general library, stocked exclusively with useful works on the sciences, with newspapers, periodicals, &c &c. Each society would have its porter, while house servants would attend to the different private libraries, under the direction of the Secretaries. The Society rooms could be of different sizes to suit the convenience and finances of the various bodies.

A committee selected from all the societies to superintend and have direction over the whole management of the building, and the rents for the rooms to be fixed by the committee, at a rate as low as would be consistent with a fair remunerating percentage for the capital em-