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derable expense being necessary to do justice to the 

 subject. 



62, Great Mary-bone Street, 

 January 28, 1809. 



" At a Meeting of the Managers of the Royal Institu- 

 tion of Great Britain, held at the House of the Insti- 

 tution, on the 30th day of January, 1809. 



" Read a proposal of M. L. Este, Esq. as to a course 

 of lectures at the Royal Institution. 



"Resolved, that Mr. Bernard be desired to engage Mr. 

 Este to give six lectures on the comparative fitness 

 of animated nature to its situation and functions, to com- 

 mence as soon as may be convenient, and to be in the 

 nature of a general prospectus on the subject, avoiding 

 as much as may be any technical references to physiology 

 or anatomy." 



Extract from the minutes. 

 WILLIAM SAVAGE, Assistant Secretary. 



" At a Meeting of the Managers of the Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain, held on the 6th of February, 1809. 



" Mr. Bernard reported that, in consequence of the 

 resolution of the managers, he had engaged M. L. 

 Este, Esq. to read a course of six lectures at two 

 o'clock, on the comparative fitness of animated na- 

 ture to its situation and functions, to commence from 

 the middle of March, for a compliment of thirty guineas." 

 " Resolved that it be approved." 



Extract from the minutes. 

 WILLIAM SAVAGE, Assistant Secretary. 



