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the same for the managers and for the Eoyal Society of 

 London.' 



This committee consisted of Cavendish, Maskelyne, 

 Blagden, Eennell, Planta, Grray, Vince, Farish, and 

 Hatchett. 



The managers also decided that fourteen committees 

 should be appointed for the purpose of specific investi- 

 gation and improvement. Persons in no way connected 

 with the Institution might be appointed. The chair- 

 man and deputy chairman were to be nominated by the 

 managers. The meetings were to be held in the house, 

 and the results were to be published in the Journals. 

 The subjects were, 1, making bread ; 2, soup ; 3, 

 cottages ; 4, stoves ; 5, kitchen fire-places and utensils ; 

 6, household furniture ; 7, food for cattle ; 8, cooking in 

 ships and distilling fresh water at sea ; 9, lime-kilns ; 

 10, fire-balls and combustible cakes; 11, mortar and 

 cements; 12, composition houses ; 13, useful machines 

 of all descriptions ; 14, iron founding and working and 

 refining iron and steel. 



Dr. K. J. Thornton offering to lecture on botany 

 as connected with agriculture, it was resolved that 

 the cultivation of natural history and agriculture 

 was not included in the original plan of the Eoyal 

 Institution, and that it was not expedient to accept the 

 offer. 



On April o the first number of the < Journal of the 

 Eoyal Institution of Great Britain ' was published. It 

 contains, 1. The proceedings of the managers of March 

 31 and the report to the proprietors made on Feb- 

 ruary 10. 2. An advertisement respecting the publica- 



