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the hard work of his Dispensary. He caught typhus 

 fever from one of the patients in June, and died on 

 the 28th of that month. 



He left his children penniless. 



On August 2 Dr. G-arnett's executor, Mr. Parker, 

 asked permission to have the popular lectures on the 

 Laws of Animal Life, the Zoonomia, printed at the 

 press of the Royal Institution, and that the printer to 

 the Institution, Mr. W. Savage, might receive sub- 

 scriptions for the publication of the work. The 

 managers resolved to subscribe for the Institution 50L, 

 and in 1804, when the work was published in quarto, 

 they allowed it to be dedicated to them, a privilege 

 which they refused on many occasions afterwards. The 

 dedication was in these words : 



To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Managers 

 of the Royal Institution of Great Britain these Lectures, 

 composed by a man who, in his lifetime, was honoured by 

 their selection as their first lecturer, and whose infant 

 family have since experienced their benevolence and pro- 

 tection, are, with permission, dedicated by the trustees of 

 the subscription in favour of these orphans. 



The amount of the subscription was nearly two 

 thousand guineas. 



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