186 THE EARLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. IV. 



In June Davy was made Lecturer, instead of Assist- 

 ant Lecturer, in Chemistry, and in a few days Dr. 

 G-arnett resigned. A permanent committee, con- 

 sisting of Charles Hatchett, chairman, Lord Dundas, 

 Mr. Howard, Mr. Chenevix, Mr. Pepys, Dr. Gr. Pearson, 

 Mr. Nicholson, and Mr. Carlisle, was appointed for the 

 purposes of chemical investigation and analysis ; to 

 make such experiments in the laboratory of the Insti- 

 tution as they think useful ; Messrs. Hatchett, Howard, 

 and Nicholson were requested to draw up a few short 

 rules for the ordinary meetings and manner of con- 

 ducting the business of the committee ; and once a 

 month or once a fortnight the committee was to be 

 allowed to dine together at the house of the Institution. 



The managers resolved that on November 2 Mr. 

 Davy should begin a course of lectures on Tanning ; 

 that he should have leave of absence in July, August, 

 and September, to learn the practical part of the 

 business ; and that respectable persons of the trade, 

 if recommended by proprietors of the Institution, 

 should be admitted gratis. 



In order to obtain more support Count Eumford 

 drew up in his own name a letter to be sent as a circu- 

 lar with a printed fly-leaf. The heading of it ran thus : 



Being desirous of becoming a member of the Royal In- 

 stitution of Great Britain, I request that Count Rumford 

 would propose me to the managers of the said Institution 

 as a candidate for election in the class pointed out in the 

 column below, in which my name is subscribed. 



1st class proprietors, who up to May 1802 pay seventy 

 guineas ; 2nd class life subscribers, who pay twenty guineas ; 

 3rd class annual subscribers, three guineas. 



