On August 2 Dr. Garnett’s executor, Mr. Parker, asked permission to have the popular lectures on the Laws of Animal Life, the Zoonomia, printed at the press of the Royal Institution, and that the printer to the Institution, Mr. W. Savage, might receive subscriptions for the publication of the work. The managers resolved to subscribe for the Institution 50_l._, and in 1804, when the work was published in quarto, they allowed it to be dedicated to them, a privilege which they refused on many occasions afterwards. The dedication was in these words: To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain these Lectures, composed by a man who, in his lifetime, was honoured by their selection as their first lecturer, and whose infant family have since experienced their benevolence and protection, are, with permission, dedicated by the trustees of the subscription in favour of these orphans. The amount of the subscription was nearly two thousand guineas. CHAPTER IV. THE PROGRESS OF THE INSTITUTION TO THE RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR YOUNG. 1801 to 1803. WITH THE LIFE OF DR. THOMAS YOUNG. 1773 to 1829. In 1801 Count Rumford continued to carry out his plans at the Institution. In February he engaged Mr. Humphry Davy as Assistant Lecturer on Chemistry, Director of the Chemical Laboratory, and Assistant Editor of the Journals. On March 11 Davy arrived at the Institution and took possession of his situation, and in April he began to lecture. In this month the managers decided to build five new bed-rooms, forming the south attics, equalising the height of the house. Sir John Hippesley declined to continue the treasurership. He drew up the following abstract of accounts from the commencement to April 30 of this year: Receipts, 19,257_l._ 8_s._; Expenditure, 12,601_l._ 2_s._ 1_d._; Consols, costing 4,471_l._ 5_s._; Balance at Banker’s, 2,185_l._ 0_s._ 11_d._; Debts due, 4,400_l._: making a disposable sum of between 10,000_l._ and 11,000_l._ ‘Now, as all bills are paid, there are sufficient grounds to hope that the managers will be able not only to finish all the new works, but also to furnish the different apartments and workshops, and complete the arrangement of the establishment in all its details, without incurring any permanent debt, or calling upon the subscribers for any part of the 7,000_l._ which was generously offered for defraying the expense of the new buildings.’ Lord Kinnaird was elected treasurer. In May Count Rumford reported that, ‘as a Master of the Workshops will soon be wanted, he had taken considerable pains to find out some person qualified for that office, and he had found a sober, steady, single, mathematical instrument maker, to whom he proposed to give 80_l._ a year and a room in the house.’ Sir Joseph Banks recommended Mr. Böekman, a German chemist, to be engaged in the laboratory at 50_l._ a year and a room in the house.