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this will first be demonstrated mathematically, then experi- 

 mentally, and afterwards applied to the explanation of 

 mechanical powers in machinery, projectiles, &c., illustrated 

 by familiar examples and calculations. 



If we suppose that five mornings in the week should 

 be devoted to this course, we shall be enabled to go through 

 one hundred lectures before the conclusion of the session. 



It is scarcely necessary to observe that in this course 

 opportunity will be taken to show working models of 

 machinery and chemical processes in their proper places. 



This would be the most useful course, and, as was before 

 observed, the numbers who attend it would gradually 

 increase. At least this was the case at Glasgow. A 

 morning hour would probably be best for this course. 



My apparatus is elegant and good. It was made for me 

 by the late Mr. Adorns. What the Institution will chiefly 

 want will be of the supplementary kind, and will not, I 

 apprehend, cost more than 150Z. or 200Z., supposing wo 

 purchase the most complete and elegant instruments, which 

 I would strongly advise. My own apparatus shall be at 

 the service of the Institution while I continue among you, 

 which I hope will be while I live, and it is my intention 

 eventually to bequeath it to the Institution^ As it will be 

 necessary to come to an arrangement as speedily as pos- 

 sible, Mr. Webster and myself, after having carefully 

 surveyed the house, are of opinion that the apparatus should 

 be placed in cases with glass doors, and that the best situation 

 for it would be round the large room 1 on the same floor with 

 the lecture room, and what could not conveniently be placed 

 there, either on account of their bulk or inelegant appear- 

 ance, might be put in the small room 3 adjoining to it. This 

 would render this room very interesting to strangers, and, 

 even considering it as a lounging room, it would be much 

 better to have an elegant apparatus to look at than bare 

 walls. It would likewise be much the most convenient as 



1 Now the anteroom. 2 Now the lecturers' room. 



