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perfon to All the office of profeffor in the 
new Inftitution. A correfpondence was 
immediately entered into with him, and 
profpects held out which induced him to 
reign the refpectable fituation he held at 
Glalgow, as well as his extenfive and in- 
creafing practice as a phyfician in that city, 
‘This arrangement took place about the 
end of lait September, aiter which the 
Doctor immediately removed to London, 
bringing with him a confiderable collec. 
tion of philofophical apparatus. Prepa- 
vations were then made for commencing 
the lectures, and 4 temporary leéture-room 
fitted up, with benches, &c. for the pur- 
pofe; at the fame time, rooms were open- 
ed for the accommodation of the fub{cribers, 
which were handfomely furnifhed, and fup- 
plied with the beft Englifh philofophica] 
journals, reviews, and magazines, as well 
as with the moft celebrated French and 
German Journals. i 
On the ath of March, Dr. Garnett de- 
Jivered his firft lecture to an audience 
which completely filled the room, and 
which for re{pectability has never been 
equalled in this, or perhaps any other 
country. Many of the firlt nobility, and 
perfons occupying the moft exalted ftations 
under government, as well as a great num- 
ber of {cientific characters, and ladies of 
the firft diftinétion were prefent. “ 
New fubfcribers now fiocked in daily; 
and their numbers increafed fo rapidly, 
that the managers thought it- proper to 
raife the terms of fublcription, which was 
done with refpeét to all the clafles.  - 
On the third of March, the day before 
the lectures commenced, the lift of the 
members of the Inftitution was as follows : 
Proprictors ~ ~ 15 
Life Subfcribers  < - 4975 
Annual Subfcribers - 138 
Ladies - - Me 
Total ter aor 
On the third of April, the numbers 
ftood thus: 
Proprietors = ce 248 
Life Subfcribers” us 259 
Annual Subfcribers a 297 
Ladies e é 07 
Total = = gor 
Sa that within a month, 97 new pro- 
rietors, ro2 life fubfcribers, 159 annual 
fubfcribers, and 64 ladies had been added 
to the lift. Since the rf of May, about 
%29 new fubicribers have been added to 
Royal Inftituticn of Great Britain 
f June z, 
the lifts, of which about twenty are new 
proprietors ; fo that the number of mem- 
bers is now about ro21 ; and as each pro- 
prietor has two tickets, the number of 
perfons who have a right to attend the lec- 
tures of the Inftitution, is 1307. The 
le&ture-room, however, when completely 
filled, will not accommodate 300 auditors, 
which is not one-fourth of thofe entitled fo 
admiflion. In confequence of this, and the 
want of a proper laboratory and repofitery, 
the managers came to a refolution to ere& 
additional buildings for thefe purpofes on 
a {cale fuited to the importance of the in- 
ftitution, and the liberal patronage which 
it has received ;' and preparations are now 
making -for the immediate ereCtion of thefe 
buildings. 
A pian has been defigned, comprehend. 
ing a complete {cientific theatre, or lec. 
ture-room ; this theatre, which will! con- 
tain about a thoufand perfons, will be fe- 
micircular and very lofty, and conftruéted 
with rifing temicircular feats, according 
to the models of the ancient amphitheatres. 
Under this theatre is intended to be con- 
firuted a {pacious and airy repofitorys 
and, in another part, a lofty and very ca- 
pacious laboratory, which is to be fup- 
plied with furnaces and all kinds of éhe- 
mical apparatus neceflary for carrying on 
experiments on the moft extenfive icale, 
and, at the fame time with the greateft 
precifion, 
In the mean time, a number of im- 
provements have been made in the houfe 
under the direction of Count Rumtord, of 
which the following are the principal : 
All the open chimney fire-places have 
been altered, and fitted up on new prin- 
ciples. The. kitchen belonging to the 
houfe, which was originally very capacious, 
has been ftill farther enlarged, and fitted 
up with a vanety of new contrivances, 
calculated to facilitate and improve the 
various procefles of cookery, and to eco- 
nomize fuel. 
A model, of the full fize, of a~ public 
kitchen, with four boilers, and four fmalk 
iron ovens (the latter all heated by one 
fire) is fnifhed. 
A complete roafter has likewife been 
putupin this kitchen ; and near it an iron 
oven, ol a new principle, contrived in 
fuch a manner as to ferve occafionally as a 
roafter. . BAS. 
A model of a kitchen for a fmall fami- 
ly, full fize, as well as a fmaill cottage 
kitchen, have been. erected. 
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(To be regularly continued. ) 4 
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