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meeting of the managers of Anderson's Institution of 

 his wish to resign his situation in order to go to 

 London. When Dr. Garnett arrived, December 23, 

 the managers of the Koyal Institution resolved that he 

 should be styled Professor of Natural Philosophy and 

 Chemistry to the Eoyal Institution. He sent to the 

 board a letter from which a view of the earliest lectures 

 at the Institution can be obtained. 



PROFESSOR GARNETT TO THE MANAGERS. 







December 23, 1799. 



To THE MANAGERS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. Count 

 Rumford requested me to arrange and put on paper my 

 ideas concerning the plan and economy of the Royal Insti- 

 tution for the perusal of the managers. On looking over 

 the prospectus, however, I find the plan so well digested 

 that I cannot make any improvement or even advantageous 

 alteration. I shall therefore confine myself in the follow- 

 ing observations to what I conceive to belong more par- 

 ticularly to my department I mean the arrangement of the 

 lectures and shall propose a plan which, from experience, I 

 think most likely to be useful ; but I propose it with the 

 utmost deference to the opinions of the managers, and shall 

 be ready to make any alterations which they may think 

 proper to point out. 



Our object ought undoubtedly to be both amusement and 

 instruction. We shall have two classes of auditors, the 

 one consisting of those who will come chiefly for amuse- 

 ment or because it may be fashionable. These it is our 

 business to amuse, while at the same time I hope we shall 

 be able to interest them in the subjects, and communicate 

 considerable knowledge without any trouble to themselves. 



For these I would propose a popular course of experi- 

 mental philosophy, in which all abstract reasoning shall be 



