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consultation with the committee on the qualification 

 of the candidate proposed for election. 



In the autumn Count Eumford went to Paris and 

 Germany, and made the acquaintance of Madame 

 Lavoisier. He returned by Paris. The clerk, Mr. W. 

 Savage, wrote to him, probably in December : 



In obedience to your commands, I annex an account of 

 the present state of the works at the Royal Institution. 



He then gives the state of the laboratory, the work- 

 shops for iron and copper, the joiners' workshops, the 

 kitchen, the library, the hall, and passage to the con- 

 versation room. 



He then says : 



The repository is in the same state you left it ; indeed, 

 it has been, and is at present, a workshop for the plumbers 

 and glaziers. 



The printing office. We are busy printing Dr. Young's 

 syllabus and beginning Mr. Davy's. Dr. Young's is ex- 

 pected to make 10 or 12 sheets. Of Mr. Davy's there is none 

 printed off. It is meant to be 6 sheets. We print 1,000 on 

 common paper and 100 on large paper of Dr. Young's, and 

 500 on common paper and 50 large of Mr. Davy's. We 

 have printed one sheet for a number of the Journals which 

 contains part of Mr. Davy's paper on Galvanism, but it ap- 

 pears very uncertain when we shall publish it. [This was 

 No. 4.] 



The apparatus for warming the lecture room is fitted up. 

 They have tried it, but have not yet been able to raise the 

 temperature more than 5 degrees. It is considerably hotter 

 under the seats, and they have bored a great number of 

 holes through the front of them to admit the hot air into the 

 room. 



Mr. Davy's rooms are fitted up ; he does not mean to give 



