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Royal Institution, 22nd May, 1809- 

 SIR, 



On presenting a receipt according to the form below 

 at the bank of Messrs. Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall 

 Mall, you will receive 30 guineas, agreeably to a resolu- 

 tion of the managers of the 9th January, 1809. 



" Received of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 by payment of Scrope Bernard, Esq. treasurer, thirty- 

 one pounds ten shillings for a course of lectures on ani- 

 mated nature, delivered in 1809." 



31 10 0. 



IN answer to the two last tetters I received an intima- 

 tion that the funds of the Institution did not permit 

 the managers to extend their engagements; that they 

 had declined four offers of lectures ; but that if these lec- 

 tures were to have been continued, notice was to have 

 been sent me, as I understood, in the shape of a proposal 

 from the Institution at the beginning of the present 

 year 1810. I consequently felt surprised when I learnt 

 from the advertisement for the year that the lectures 

 on the philosophy of the animal economy were to be 

 continued, and that Dr. Smith was appointed to deliver 

 them. The causes of this arrangement I am not able 

 to state: what my lectures were, those who did me the 

 honour to attend them, may perhaps recollect ; what my 

 conduct towards the* Institution has been in other re- 

 spects, I think proper thus to disclose. 



Before concluding, I shall take the liberty of making 

 a few general remarks upon scientific institutions,* and 

 of stating the reasons why certain learned establish- 



* Some further observations upon this subject will hereafter 

 be submitted to the public. 



