192 THE EAELY HISTOEY OF [CHAP. IV. 



any mode of demonstration either new or not commonly 

 known that may occur in the lectures will be noticed. 



Not that anything like an abstract is intended, for this 

 may be found in the compendiums already published ; but 

 it may be the more proper to notice some experiments as 

 it has not been possible to introduce an enumeration of 

 experiments into those corapendiums. 



In a meeting of the Committee of Chemistry of the 

 Institution on the 20th of January it was resolved 

 that 



The Committee of Chemistry, having taken into considera- 

 tion the present state of knowledge respecting the history 

 of metallic alloys, and being of opinion that this branch of 

 chemistry (so eminently important to science and so useful 

 to various arts) has not been hitherto investigated with due 

 accuracy, resolve that a series of experiments shall be made 

 in the laboratory of the Royal Institution, in order to ascer- 

 tain with all possible precision the physical and chemical 

 properties of these metallic compounds. 



This is probably the germ of Faraday's investigation. : 

 of the alloys of steel. 



Count Rumford moved that all the stock 7,000. in 

 the funds belonging to the Institution should be sold 

 out to pay for the new buildings and other debts. 



Early in February it was resolved that each proprie- 

 tor should have an extra transferable ticket, c to facili- 

 tate the admission of such artists and mechanics as 

 may derive advantage from the public lectures delivered 

 at the Institution, which will give admittance to the 

 gallery only of the great lecture room and to no other 

 part of the house. 



' Resolved, That this new arrangement, which is in- 

 tended as an experiment, do continue as long as the 

 managers shall deem it expedient.' 



