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Dr. Garnett the position of the School of Design at 

 the end of September 1800 is seen. 



When I mentioned that teaching mechanics might pro- 

 bably form a part of my employment I did not speak from 

 any certain knowledge on the subject, but merely because 

 such a thing had once been in agitation. I have now very 

 little reason for supposing that such a plan will be at all 

 put in practice, but if ever it should, no doubt the managers 

 will take care that it shall not prove any inconvenience to 

 you. I could not myself engage in it upon any other con- 

 ditions. Setting that aside, therefore, as extremely uncer- 

 tain if not improbable .... 



At the end of the year hot-water pipes were ordered 

 for warming the theatre. 



The chief events in the history of the Institution 

 during the year 1800 may be thus summed up: 

 The new theatre was built ; large committees for 

 scientific investigation were formed; and the first number 

 of the Journal was published. No advance was made 

 in the formation of a repository for models ; or in 

 the foundation of a school of design. The lectures of 

 Dr. Garnett were successful, but he was refused per- 

 mission to practise his profession as a physician and to 

 bring his children to live at the Institution. Count 

 Rumford himself ordered and superintended everything 

 in the house. Early the next year there was a visible 

 rupture between him and Dr. Grarnett regarding the 

 prospectus of the lectures for the season, and in June 

 1801 Dr. Grarnett resigned. 



The causes of this will be best seen by a short 

 sketch of his life. 



Dr. Thomas Garnett was born in 1766 in West- 



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