198 THE EARLY HISTOEY OF [CHAP. IV. ' 



Mr. Savage, on conditions which made them take the print- | 

 ing-office without the power of disposing of it. 



Second, of the workshops of the Royal Institution. 

 These are proposed to be put into the hands of some re- 

 spectable tradesman, to be managed by him under certain 

 regulations at his own expense and for his own benefit. 

 Mr. Feetham, a respectable ironmonger of Oxford Street, 

 offered to take charge of the workshops of workers in 

 metal, 1 which is immediately , under the managers' room, I 

 and carry on at his own expense and risk the same kinds of 

 work with the same workmen. 



Charles Royce, who, in the absence of Mr. Webster, acts , 

 as an assistant of the professor and chemical lecturer, is 

 ready to engage to carry on the business of the model- ! 

 makers' workshops at the house of the Institution on his 9 

 own account, and at his own private expense and risk, pro- i 

 mi sing to furnish at fair prices to all proprietors and 

 subscribers such models as they may order. He will like- 

 wise continue to assist Dr. Young and Mr. Davy at their 

 public lectures. 



If these arrangements are carried out, the office of 

 Steward of the House and Master of the Workshops, held 

 by Mr. M'Cullock, might be suppressed. Mr. Royce will 

 only require a boy to clean the laboratory. 



Of the coffee room and dining room. It has been pro- 

 posed to give the management of these to some individual 

 who shall agree to furnish the proprietors and subscribers 

 with refreshments at his own account and risk. 



He ended his dictatorship with these abdicating words: ', 



All the different subjects mentioned in this report remain 

 for future discussion among the managers. 



Many proofs exist that Count Rumfbrd took little -j 

 counsel from others in founding the Royal Institution. 



1 Now the chemical laboratory, 1871. 



