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promote the prosperity of the Koyal Institution, and at 

 the same time to contribute to the extension of useful 

 science and to the increase of our national resources.' 



A plan was drawn up. There were to be hereditary 

 patrons, paying 100. and upwards, and patrons for life, 

 paying 50L, and subscribers of smaller sums might 

 unite when they had subscribed sixty guineas and select 

 one of themselves as patron. The patrons were to elect 

 a chairman, a deputy-chairman, a treasurer and a 

 secretary, committees and sub-committees. 



In 1804 Lord Dartmouth gave 2001. worth of 

 minerals, and Mr. Hatchett gave the cases for them. 



In 1805 Davy gave his own collection of minerals, 

 valued at 1 00 guineas. 



The committee rooms were made into the mineral 

 room, and 2501. was spent in fitting it up. Davy went 

 to Wales and Ireland to collect minerals, and the 

 following year he again went to the west and north of 

 Ireland, and took with him William Payne, the boy 

 belonging to the laboratory. 



At the end of 1805 the rooms for the mineralogical 

 collection were ready, and the arrangement of the 

 mineralogical and geological specimens was made under 

 the directions of Mr. Davy. The minerals and fossils 

 were removed from the model room, where they had 

 been deposited, and in consequence the models were 

 arranged to more advantage. 



On June 9, 1806, a report was made by Mr. Bernard 

 on the total failure of the subscriptions to the mineralo- 

 gical collection. Thereupon the managers resolved that 

 the three original proposers should receive back their 



