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The prospectus and charter were ordered to be printed 

 in octavo, and Dr. Grarnett laid before the managers 

 the plan of his lectures for the following year. 



Thus, then, in 1799 the Eumford Institution began 

 in the house of Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the 

 Eoyal Society, and in the first year of its life it 

 became the Eoyal Institution in Albemarle Street. It 

 had its origin in the work which Count Eumford did 

 for the poor in Munich, and its primary objects were 

 models, workshops, and useful knowledge to benefit 

 the poor ; lectures, researches, and scientific experi- 

 ments to amuse and interest the rich and to advance 

 science were comparatively the secondary intentions 

 of its founder. 



In 1800 a new and very long prospectus was 

 written by Count Eumford. It was printed with the 

 charter, bye-laws, and names of the proprietors and 

 subscribers, and published on January 23. It again 

 said, ' the two chief purposes of the Institution were 

 the speedy and general diffusion of the knowledge of 

 all new and useful improvements, in whatever quarter 

 of the world they may originate ; the application of 

 scientific discoveries to the improvement of arts and 

 manufactures in this country, and to the increase 

 of domestic comfort and convenience.' There is a 

 ^markable addition in May of two paragraphs to the 

 lition in quarto of this publication. They read as 

 some one had pointed out the absence of all 

 lention of attraction for the rich. These words 

 were added : ' But, in estimating the probable 

 usefulness of this Institution, we must not forget the 



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