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advantageous to the pursuits of scientific men, and very 

 conducive to the increase of the funds and of the utility, 

 prosperity, and permanency of the Institution. 



He thus ended his report : 



The fabric of the Royal Institution is now completed by 

 the efforts of individuals. . . . The attempt has been as 

 arduous as the object has been great and important not 

 less than that of giving fashion to science and of forming a 

 centre of philosophical and literary attraction, for supplying 

 instruction to the young, and rational amusement to ma- 

 ture life, with essential advantages to the public and in- 

 crease of resources to the country by new discoveries and 

 improvements in the arts and manufactures. 



Early in January the managers resolved that Dr. 

 Young and Mr. Davy should give one hundred lectures 

 in the ensuing season, to begin on October 26. 



On January 21 Dr. Young proposed to the managers 

 a preface to the second volume of the Journal of the 

 Institution. It was referred to the Select Committee, 

 who advised that at the present period, when, on 

 account of the situation of the finances and expenses 

 of the Institution, a considerable alteration is become 

 necessary in their arrangements, any publication of the 

 kind proposed by Dr. Young had better be deferred 

 for the present. This preface, written by Dr. Young, 

 never was published, and, as it gives a good view of the 

 Institution as it was left by Rumford, it is of interest 

 as a record of the past. 



