| Description | Sets out the aims of the Foundation - to create provision for authoritative text-books, and 'to extend the influence of the scientific and scholarly spirit among wide classes of the people as yet unreached by it'. Discusses other objects, including the encouragement self-education in the home. Invites the Royal Society and the British Academy to co-operate in preparing new editions of the Encyclopaedia, researching, and appointing members to the Board of Trustees. |