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Royal Infiitutlon of Great Britain: 



A courfc of plillofophical and chemical leftures is at prefent delivered at the houfe of 

 the Royal Inftitution by Dr. Garnett, which are received with the moft marked attention 

 by an audience of the firft refpe£lability. The ordinances, bye laws, and regulations of 

 this eftablifliment have likewife been printed. They confift, for the moft part, of a de- 

 velopement and organization of the fubjeds contained in their profpedtus of laft year. 

 The managers are charged to ereft a laboratory and theatre for Icftures, and to appoint 

 profeflbrs. They eleft all the fubfcribers. Proprietors are to be propofed as candidates 

 by a manager, and ele£ted at the fubfequent monthly meeting by a majority of two-thirds, 

 and the fum to be paid will be 6ol. after May, 1800 ; — 70!. after May, i8oi ;— Sol. after 

 May, 1802; — poh after May, 1803; and lool. after May, 1804. Subfcribers for life, or 

 annual, muft be propofed by a manager, and defied at the fubfequent weekly meeting. 

 Ladies for thefe two clafles are admitted by recommendation of certain ladies intrufted by 

 the managers to hold books for that purpofe. I do not find any fpecific mention of the 

 fums to be paid by life and annual fubfcribers; but upon enquiry at the houfe, I am 

 informed, that on Friday the 7th of this month, the fum for the former clafs was raifed 

 from ten to twenty guineas, and for the latter from two to three guineas. Whether the 

 managers of this great eftablifhment have fhewn a laudable partiality to their own clafs by 

 giving them five regular notices of the advances they are to pay, while the the reft of the 

 public is called upon without ceremony for augmentation of fifty and one hundred 

 per cent may perhaps be queftioned. 



