150 THE EARLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. III. 



he continued to lodge in the house, to superintend all 

 the servants, to preserve order and decorum, and to 

 control the expenses of housekeeping. It is most 

 probable that this resolution was intended to control 

 Dr. Garnett. A printing-press was bought. Sir John 

 Hippesley was elected treasurer. 



Count Eumford wrote to Sir Joseph Banks : 



Royal Institution, May 29, 1800. 



I am very sorry to find, on making inquiry of Doctor 

 Garnett, that your information was accurate respecting his 

 having ascribed the late discoveries of our friend Volta to the 

 French. Had I been apprised of his intention to mention 

 this discovery at his lectures, I should certainly have 

 taken care that he should have mentioned it in a proper 

 manner ; but I knew nothing of the matter until it was too 

 late to prevent the mistake. I have, however, insisted on 

 its being rectified as far as it is possible in some future 

 lecture, and I am promised that it will be done. I know 

 not from whom the Doctor procured his information re- 

 specting his discovery, but I learnt by accident late last 

 evening that he borrowed the apparatus with which he 

 exhibited the experiments at the lecture from Mr. Howard. 

 I dined out and did not come home till his lecture was 

 nearly over. 



The next day Eumford wrote again : 



Royal Institution, May 30, 1800. 



Doctor Garnett is perfectly ready to make the following 

 public declaration this evening at his lecture at the Insti- 

 tution, or he will say anything else on the subject in 

 question which you may think will be more proper for 

 him to say to atone for his mistake and to make amends 

 to Professor Yolta : 



1 Having by mistake on Wednesday, in the course of my 

 public lecture, ascribed to the French philosophers a new 



