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should, with dignity, but without reserve, " be accessible 

 to ALL, whom the sciences may lead into her presence. 

 That such establishments maybe adorned with whatever 

 can delight the eye, elevate the imagination, or enlarge 

 the understanding, their gates should stand always open; 

 INVITING to entrance, all whom the sciences number 

 in their train. But unless they are so, the precepts of 

 truth and justice will be trampled upon by the creatures of 

 jlattery and caprice ; no attention will be paid but to 

 ceremonies and formalities, in institutions which should 

 be of the most easy and speedy access. 



The establishments for the promotion of learning in 

 Europe have generally the following classes. Physical 

 and Mathematical sciences; Literature; History; the 

 Fine Arts ; Geometry ; Mechanics ; Astronomy ; Geogra- 

 phy ; General Philosophy; Chemistry; Mineralogy; 

 Botany; Rural Economy; the Veterinary Art; Ana- 

 tomy; Physiology; Zoology; Painting; Sculpture; 

 Architecture; Engineering; Engraving; Musical Com- 

 position, 8cc. &c. 



At the Royal Institution of Great Britain ONE de- 

 partment of science is particularly attended to, viz. the 

 Electro-chemical. Mr. DAVY, in whose praise too 

 much cannot be said, and whose talents are not to be 

 estimated by any price that can be put upon them, has 

 the principal, indeed the ONLY, settled professorship 

 of the Institution. He alone resides at it, and alone 

 holds permanent appointments under it. A few other 

 gentlemen of distinguished merit are occasionally either 

 " PERMITTED" or engaged to deliver lectures there, as 

 appears by the preceding lists. 



M. L. ESTE. 



While these Lectures were delivering, notwithstand- 

 ing the extensive patronage, and the very great number 

 of attendants, at the Royal Institution, such were the em- 



