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ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN: 

Az ACCOUNT of the ORIGIN and PRO- 
GRESS of the ROYAL LNSTITUTION of 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continued from p. 379.) 
N our laft Number, we gave a fhort 
account of the origin of this In- 
ftitution, which was concluded with a 
Jiftt of the officers who have the direc- 
tion of it. As foon as the fociety be. 
came organized, and the houfe put in or- 
der, regular meetings of the managers 
were held, to confider in what manner the 
different parts of the Inftitution could be 
beft carried into effect. It was, foon 
agreed, that the lectures on experimental 
philofophy and chemiltry fhould commence 
as foon as the neceflary arrangements for 
that purpofe could be made; but the 
greateft difficulty was to procure a perfon, 
not only eminent for his knowledge of 
thefe fciences, but who was inthe habit of 
delivermg both popular and {cientific lec- 
tures; for though the managers might 
meet: with perfons properly qualified in 
point of knowledge, yet, if they were un- 
accuftomed to {peaking and making expe- 
riments in public, it would be fome years 
before they could appear to advantage ; 
whereas they were convinced, that much 
depended upon the leétures of ‘the Inftitu- 
tion being opened in fuch a manner as not 
to difappoint the public expeGtation. The 
endowinents of profound {cience and phi- 
lofophy, as is obferved by the managers in 
one of their reports, are rarely blended 
with the faculty of communicating eafily 
to others the refults of the highly inte. 
refting and extended operations of nature 
and art. Where fuch talents and acquire- 
ments exift, it is natural to fuppofe, that 
they would rarely be found unemployed, 
The inquiries of the managers, and their 
endeavours toacquit this part of theirduty, 
were extended throughout the kingdom, 
aided by the vigilance of many f{cientific 
friends, to whofe judgment they were 
more willing to defer, than to rely upon 
their own, * 
Their attention was at length fixed on 
Dr. Garnett, Profeffor of Phyfics and. Phi. 
lofophy in Anderfon’s Inftitution, Glaf 
gow, a gentleman who was known to the 
learned world by feveral philofophical and 
medical publications. Being engaged in 
a fimilar inftitution, the leures of which 
he had delivered for fome years with great 
fatisfaction to the managers and the pub- 
lict, he was looked upon as a proper 
* Report of the managers of the Royal In- 
ftitution, Feb. 3, 1800. 
t For a particular account of Dr. Garnett’s 
lectures at Glafgow, fee vol. V. page 274, of 
our Magazine. ; 

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