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ments for the ensuing year. This was made on No- 

 vember 28, 1803 ; the reporters were Sir Joseph Banks, 

 Henry Cavendish, Sir J. Hippesley, Mr. Bernard, Mr. 

 Sullivan. 

 They said : 



With regard to the lectures on Natural Philosophy, it is 

 presumed that the subjects may be advantageously arranged 

 in the three distinct courses. The first should be a com- 

 plete course of experimental philosophy ; the second should 

 relate to practical mechanics ; and the third should be on 

 optics and astronomy. 



Abstruseness should in all cases be avoided, the processes 

 of the arts should be particularly described, and the 

 operations should be on such a scale as to instruct by their 

 applications and to interest and amuse by the distinctness 

 and brilliancy of their appearance. 



The lectures on Chemistry, it is supposed, may be in- 

 cluded in two courses. The first would relate to the 

 chemistry of natural history and the chemical economy of 

 nature, and the second to theoretical and practical chemistry. 

 From the progression of this branch of knowledge it will be 

 easy to develope in both these courses many new objects, and 

 it is supposed that they may at once be rendered useful 

 and made to excite attention and gratify curiosity. 



It would be very advantageous to institute a particular 

 and distinct series of public experimental operations, show- 

 ing such new facts in elementary and natural philosophy 

 as are connected with splendid and curious phenomena or 

 highly useful applications. 



During the season it was proposed that there should be 

 one hundred lectures and twenty public experiments about 

 four lectures weekly. 



For affording more practical and minute information con- 

 cerning the objects of science, first, in relation to mechani- 

 cal sciences and arts, the models of useful inventions should 



