The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First ProfessorsJones, Bence
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors
Jones, Bence
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814; Young, Thomas, 1773-1829
Huntingdon, barracks at Long Island, 25
Industry, House of, at Munich, 33
Institution, London, the, 274, 275
Institution, Royal, the, germ of, 44;
Proposals, 66;
caricature of, 78;
foundation, 114;
objects, 121;
funds, 125;
privileges of proprietors, 126;
subscribers, 128;
government, 129;
managers, 130;
visitors, 132;
first meeting of proprietors, 134;
first meeting of managers, 136;
charter, 138;
new prospectus, 147;
new theatre, 148;
abstract of the accounts, 180;
report of, in 1801, 181;
Davy appointed assistant lecturer at, 181;
lecturer, 186;
Young appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at, 188;
report on in 1802, 195;
Rumford’s last report on, 197;
committee on the state of, 201;
the first report of the committee on, 203;
description of by Young, 206;
progress of, 258 _et seq._;
compared with the London Institution, 275;
difficulties of, 281;
value of the property, 282;
described by Davy, 280, 292 _et seq._;
income and expenditure of, from the commencement to 1814, 425
Jenner, Dr., 303
Journal of the Royal Institution, 153, 155, 181, 187, 188, 197, 210
King Rufus, 63, 66
Kitchens, 151
Laboratory, 152, 155, 159, 160, 204, 269
Landseer, Mr., 272, 273
Lavoisier, Madame, 83, 88, 92, 97, 101, 113, 189
Lawrence, Mr., 277, 303
Lectures, first, at the Institution, 167, 170;
of Davy and Young, 191;
of Dalton, 219
Leslie, General, 21, 23
Library, foundation of, 204, 212
Light, experiments on, 40
Long Island, 25
Magneto-electricity, discovery of, 279
Marion, General, defeated by Thompson, 22
Master of the Workshops, 181
Mechanics’ School, 142, 162
Mellish, his house bought, 138
Military Academy, Munich, 36
Mineralogical collection, 266, 267, 268, 270
Model room, 155
Motion heat, 51
Munich, 28, 31, 34, 39, 50, 59, 82, 99, 113
Napoleon, First Consul, description of, 73, 79
National Institute, 75
Nova Scotia, 25, 26
Parliament, Act of, 288, 291
Payne, William, 281, 305, 306
Pictet, Professor, his account of Rumford, 27, 145
Printing press, 153, 189, 260
Proposals for founding the Royal Institution, 114, 121
Proprietors, 271, 273, 285, 287, 296, 303
Pupils in the laboratory, 269
Resignation of Dr. Garnett, 177
Report on the Institution, 181
Repository, 152
Rolfe, Mrs. Colonel, the first wife of Rumford, 4
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