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tailed account or description of it, illustrated by correct 

 drawings, with the name and residence of the maker, and 

 the price at which he would furnish it. 



The second great object of the Institution, namely, 

 "teaching the application of science to the useful pur- 

 poses of life," was to be secured by fitting up a lecture- 

 room for philosophical lectures and experiments with a 

 complete laboratory and philosophical apparatus, and 

 all necessary instruments for chemical and other experi- 

 ments. This lecture-room is to be used for no other 

 purposes but those of natural philosophy and philo- 

 sophical chemistry, and it is to be made comfortable 

 and salubrious for subscribers. The most eminent and 

 distinguished expounders of science are to be exclusively 

 engaged, and the managers are to be strictly responsible 

 for their rigid restriction of their discourses to the sub- 

 jects committed to them. If there is spare room, non- 

 subscribers may be admitted for a small fee. 



The subjects proposed for the lectures include the 

 following: Heat and its application; the economizing 

 of heat from the combustion of inflammable bodies used 

 as fuel; the principles of warmth in clothing; the effects 

 of heat and cold on the human body in sickness and in 



volume of 435 pages, and 31 engraved sheets, with the following title: " Musaeum 

 Rcgalis Societatis ; or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial 

 Raritys belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham College; where- 

 unto is subjoined the Comparative Anatomy of the Stomach and Guts." The next 

 year it was ordered that the Doctor assume the charge of the repository, under the title 

 of Pr<ffectus Musei, &c., and " make a short Catalogue of the Raritys," &c. The 

 Doctor's books are among the curiosities of literature. Here are some of the 

 " Raritys " watched over by the Royal Society : 



" The sceptre of an Indian king, a dog without a mouth, a Pegue hat and 

 organ, a Bird of Paradise, a Jewish phylactery, a model of the Temple of Jeru- 

 salem, three landskips and a catcoptrick painting given by Bishop Wilkins, a gun 

 which discharges seven times, a pair of Iceland gloves, a pot of Macassar poison, 

 the tail of an Indian cow worshipped on the Ganges, a tuft of coralline," &c., &c. 



