1800. IE,?. 34.] PROFESSOR GARNETT. 171 



ginning April 7 shows the arrangements that then 

 existed. 



MORNING LECTURES. On Tuesday, the 8th, the lecture 

 will be on Charged Electrics and the Theory of the Leyden 

 Phial, with experiments. On Thursday, Respiration and 

 Animal Heat will be continued, with the Effects of Oxygen 

 in the Blood. On Saturday, on Hydrogen Gas and the 

 Composition of Water, Sulphurated and Phosphorated 

 Hydrogen ; and a specimen of the philosophical fireworks 

 with the inflammable air will be exhibited. 



EVENING LECTURES. On Monday evening, the 7th, the 

 subject will be Spontaneous Evaporation, Ignition, and 

 Inflammation, with some Remarks on Light. On Wednes- 

 day evening, the Different Powers of Bodies as Conductors 

 of Heat; and some Experiments with the Passage Ther- 

 mometer. The method of confining heat and applying it 

 to useful purposes with economy. 



Friday being Good Friday, no lecture will be given on 

 that day. 



Those who come to the lectures in carriages are requested 

 to give orders to their coachmen to set down and take up 

 with their horses' heads towards Grafton Street. 



A contemporary account says : 



During the winter the lecture room was crowded with 

 persons of the first distinction and fashion, as well as by 

 those who had individually contributed much to the promo- 

 tion of science, and although the northern accent, which he 

 still retained in a slight degree, rendered his voice some- 

 what inharmonious to a London audience, bis modest and 

 unaffected manner of delivering his opinions, his familiar 

 and at the same time elegant language rendered him the 

 object of almost universal kindness and approbation. 



Dr. Garnett left Glasgow with the expectation that 

 he should have accommodation for his family in the 



