Library of the Imperial Leopoldine-Caroline Academy of Natural Curiosities

V. As soon as a notable quantity of books and rare things from the so-called triple kingdom of Nature—mineral, vegetable, and animal—as well as artificial, mathematical, and physical items has been collected, a carefully composed index will be sent to the press, and will be communicated for free to all to whose liberality we owe or in whom we hereafter trust, with a subsequent continuation to follow as frequently as the accumulation of gifts becomes greater.

VI. But so that this apparatus may be correctly arranged and serve the uses of many, it will be given into the custody of one or another of the Fellows, whom we will never fail to have in the most ample College of Nuremberg Physicians, from whom the colleagues will be able to either request the desired books themselves, upon showing a written receipt, or obtain necessary excerpts under fair conditions.

VII. The same may also be promised regarding rare and curious specimens of natural or artificial things, which likewise, where there is sufficient caution for their restoration, will be imparted at the expense of the requester.

VIII. If anyone perhaps, being wealthier and more liberal, should wish to bequeath some sum of money for the benefit of our institution, we will spend it in such a way that books acquired from the annual interest, for the grateful and perpetual memory of the bequest, will be distinguished by a singular eulogy and mark.

VIII. Numeral repeated in original text Just as it is not at all desirable that the domicile of our common Museum be changed frequently, so nevertheless it will be free for the Society, for just reasons, to transfer it when and wheresoever it might wish: For it is not entirely necessary that this equipment be preserved in the same place where the President of the Academy or the Director of the Ephemerides journal resides, provided that some Adjunct, or another suitable colleague to undertake the duty of prefect, be available, such as we are plainly persuaded will never be lacking in nourishing Nuremberg.

X. We will indeed take care that this office of Librarian, and one in charge of the Museum, be remunerated in some way from the treasury of our Society; which we hope will soon be made wealthier, especially when at last we will be permitted to receive the fruit of the Genselian legacy a bequest from the estate of the physician Johann Conrad Gensel.