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of Earl Morton, Count Rumford, and Sir J. Hippesley, 

 was appointed. The following week this was made to 

 include all the managers. 



In this month Count Rumford went to live in the 

 house, and the managers resolved ' that as long as he 

 did so he should be required to superintend all the 

 works going on in the house, and to see that the servants 

 in the house and the different workmen employed 

 discharge their various duties with diligence and due 

 decorum, and that the proprietors, subscribers, and 

 others who visit the Institution are received with 

 civility and treated with proper respect and attention.' 



Sir Joseph Banks drew up the bye-laws, and Count 

 Rumford was afterwards asked, agreeably to a provision 

 in the draft bye-laws, to prepare internal regulations 

 for conducting the business of the Institution. An 

 under-librarian and clerk to the managers was also 

 appointed. 



The meeting of managers on March 31 was the 

 starting point of the Journal of the Institution. The 

 publication was left to the superintendence of Rum- 

 ford. 



A printing press was ordered to be bought as soon 

 as possible, and a scientific committee of council was 

 formed. This was to be a standing committee ' to 

 examine the syllabuses of the professor of natural 

 philosophy and chemistry, to the end that no false 

 scientific doctrine might be taught at the Institution, 

 and to superintend all the new philosophical experi- 

 ments that might be made in the house of the Institution, 

 and, when made, to cause to be drawn up an account of 



