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has been provided with an ample apparatus ; and a number 

 of original experiments have already been made in it, which 

 are immediately connected with the useful arts. The read- 

 ing rooms are furnished with all new works of importance, 

 both foreign and domestic, which relate to the arts and 

 sciences, as well as with newspapers and all other periodical 

 publications ; and they are open daily, from nine in the 

 morning till midnight. A volume of the Journals is com- 

 pleted, and may serve as a specimen of what is to be ex- 

 pected from them when their editors shall be more at leisure 

 to prepare materials for them. But a more complete col- 

 lection of models and of apparatus can only be obtained by 

 degrees, and in proportion as the funds of the Institution 

 are enabled to support the expense. 



The affairs of the Institution are directed by a president 

 and nine managers, elected out of the proprietors at large. 

 Their meetings are usually the first Monday in every month, 

 or oftener. 



The professors engage to deliver, annually, not less than 

 fifty lectures each, on natural philosophy and the mechani- 

 cal arts ; and on chemistry, and the chemical arts respec- 

 tively ; to direct and superintend, with the approbation of 

 the managers, the construction of apparatus necessary for 

 their lectures, and of other models and experimental ma- 

 chines proper to be placed in the repository ; to collect such 

 information as is requisite for these purposes ; and to provide 

 jointly sufficient matter for the publication of the Journals. 

 The Superintendent of the House is charged with the regu- 

 lation of its internal economy ; and the Director of the 

 Laboratory is empowered to make such experiments in it 

 as he may judge likely to promote the views of the Institu- 

 tion. 



The clerk is required to attend in the house in general 

 from nine to five, and on the evenings when lectures are 

 delivered from seven to nine ; but in particular to be never 

 absent between twelve and four ; to be ready every day at 



