8$ Royal Inflitution of Great Britain, 



The chemical lahoratory, in which there is provlfion made 

 for placing and uting no lefs than fixteen furnaces of different 

 kinds at the fame time, is quite liniflicd, and has been fur* 

 milled, under the direction of the committee of chemiftry 

 (which has been formed fincc the lad year), with a very com- 

 plete chemical apparatus, and alfo with a confiderable pro- 

 vision of materials neccflary in making chemical experi- 

 ments. 



All the workfliops of the Inflitution are now quite fmifhed ; 

 and they have been furnifhed with the mod complete fets of 

 tools that could be procured; and feveral excellent workmen 

 are now employed in them 5 and a great variety of ufeful ar- 

 ticles, defigned as models for imitation, have already been 

 manufactured in the houfe, and are ready to be delivered to 

 any of the proprietors or fubferibers to the Inflitution who 

 may be difpofed to purchafe them. 



The great kitchen at the houfe of the Inflitution has been 

 fmifhed, and now contains a variety of new and ufeful uten- 

 iils, and implements of cookery, many of which are in daily 

 ufe, and others which are not are fo expofed to view as to 

 be eafily underftood, and their merit appreciated. 



The dining-room and the managers room, which is ad- 

 joining to it, have both been quite finiihed and furnifhed. 



The converfation-room has been finifhed, and every thing 

 has been prepared for its being ufed as a coffee-room. It is 

 now let apart for the reading of the domeflic newfpapers, of 

 which no lefs a number than ten are regularly taken in ; and 

 it has been furnifhed with a fet of the beft geographical maps 

 and charts that were to be procured. In ielec.Vmg them, the 

 advice and afliflance of that able geographer major Rennell, 

 were obtained. The maps are fitted up according to a new 

 method, which has been found to be very convenient, and 

 at the fame time to contribute much to the economy of fpace, 

 and to the prefervation of the maps. 



The firft reading-room (that nearefl to the great hall) has 

 lately been appropriated exclufively to the reading of foreign 

 newfpapers. It is lighted up, as formerly, every evening ; and 

 on the table are found feven foreign gazettes, from different 

 parts of the continent, in the French and German languages, 

 which are regularly taken in, and which, coming by the 

 poll, constantly arrive at the earlieft periods. 



Mr. Stanhope, of the general poll-office, has generoufly 

 undertaken to manage the whole bufinefs of procuring thefe 

 foreign newfpapers, and to caufe them to be delivered at the 

 houfe of the Inflitution free of all expenfes for poftage. 



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