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at the end of the year it was necessary to call a special 

 meeting, stating that it was impossible to announce the 

 lectures for the ensuing year. This brought twelve 

 managers to the first meeting of 1812, and they decided 

 that the lectures were to begin on January 25. 



Mr. Lawrence the surgeon, Dr. Birkbeck, Dr. Wol- 

 laston, and Mr. Campbell were asked, but declined, to 

 lecture. 



At the monthly meeting in April it was moved that 

 a scientific journal should be published. The question 

 of having a Professor of Astronomy and other sciences 

 connected therewith was again discussed. Dr. Jenner 

 was proposed as member by Sir H. Davy and three 

 others. On April 5, at an adjourned general monthly 

 meeting, a report from the Committee of Mathematics, 

 and Mechanics was read and referred to the managers. 

 as proper to be printed. 



On April 20 the first report of the visitors since the 

 passing of the Act of Parliament was made. 



They say ' only fifteen proprietors withdrew, and re- 

 ceived compensation amounting to 630. 12s. 6d. The* 

 rest remained with the enlarged view of rendering the 

 establishment more eminently what it was designed 

 to be a great national laboratory and theatre for the 

 improvement and promulgation of science in all its 

 branches.' 



' Five per cent, only of the intended loan was re- 

 quired.' 



The Committee closed their report by congratulating 

 their brother members on the promotion, progress, and 

 diffusion of science, particularly of chemical discovery, 



