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cabinet maker, a carpenter, a worker in brass and copper, 

 a tin-plate worker, and an iron-plate worker. To these 

 will soon be added bricklayers and stonemasons, who will 

 be instructed and enabled to instruct others in setting new- 

 invented grates, roasters, ovens, boilers, &c. 



A complete kitchen for a small family has been put up 

 for examination in the housekeeper's room. The principal 

 kitchen will be begun in a few weeks. It will contain 

 roasters, ovens, boilers, steamers on the newest and most 

 improved construction, and will be kept in daily use. In 

 order that the proprietors and inventors may be enabled to 

 judge from actual experiment of the merit of any new- 

 method of cooking, or any new dish that may be proposed, 

 a dining room has been built, and will soon be ready for 

 use, at the house of the Institution, in which the managers 

 will occasionally order experimental dinners, to which the 

 proprietors and subscribers will be invited, in as far as the 

 accommodations will admit. The expense of such dinners 

 to be defrayed by those who partake of them. 



A conversation room has been set apart, so that silence 

 may be kept in the reading rooms. There will be maps, 

 pens, and ink in the conversation room, and as soon as 

 some necessary previous, arrangements (which are now 

 actually making) shall be finished, those who frequent this 

 room will be furnished at the most reasonable prices from 

 the housekeeper's room below with soups of various kinds, 

 tea, coffee, chocolate, and other refreshments. 



Two letter-boxes have been established in the great hall. 



A complete printing office exists. The Journals will 

 appear at regular intervals, probably once a week. The 

 reports of the various committees for specific scientific 

 investigations (which will soon be appointed by the 

 managers) will no doubt furnish much interesting matter 

 for the Journals of the Institution. 



Twenty-five foreign periodical scientific publications, and 

 twenty-four domestic periodical scientific and literary pub- 



