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[Emblem of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.]
Whereas His Majesty George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, by His Royal Letters Patent bearing date the thirteenth Day of January, in the fortieth Year of his Reign, hath granted unto George Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and certain other Persons therein named, to be one Body Politic and Corporate, by the Name of
The Royal Institution of Great Britain,
for the purpose of diffusing the Knowledge, and facilitating the general Introduction of useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements &c. and hath moreover, by his said Royal Letters Patent authorized and empowered the Committee of Managers of the said Institution therein named and their Successors from time to time to choose and elect by Ballot agreeably to the Forms and Conditions prescribed by the said Letters Patent, and by the Bye Laws of the said Institution, such fit Persons to be Proprietors of the said Royal Institution as they shall think proper;
And whereas The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. was on the thirteenth Day of January 1800 duly elected nominated by the Charter a Proprietor of the said Institution, and did on the first Day of May 1799 pay to the Funds of the Institution the Sum of Fifty Guineas which at that time was the Amount of the Pecuniary Contribution prescribed by the Bye Laws as the Qualification on Admittance as a Proprietor:
This is to certify that the said Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. is a Proprietor of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and entitled to all the Rights and Privileges appertaining to a Proprietor of the said Institution.
In witness whereof the Managers of the said Royal Institution have caused this Instrument to be made out and the Seal of the Corporation to be thereunto affixed this tenth Day of May 1802.
Dundas
H. Cavendish
Jos: Banks
Charles Hatchett.
JP Auriol
Secy