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then within fix months after his return. Goyernment have purchaſed for the uſe of the college the Muſeum of the late Mr. Jobn Hunter, for which they are to gue, it is ſaid, 1 5,000l, and for which a grand room is. to be built behind the college in Lincoln’s Inn Fields,

‘The committee of the Royal Inſtitution have already entered into the’ in- veſtigation of the following highly important concerns,

On the various proceſſes uſed in making bread, and of the means that can be employed tor improving them.

An experimental inveſtigation of the art of procuring a cheap and nutri- tious ſoup for the poor.

The improvement of cottages, and of cottage fire places.

Tmprovement in the conſtru&ion of(ſtoves for working, dwelling houſes, and of kitchen fre places, aná kitchen utenfils for private families.

Improvements iu many uſeful articles of houſehold furniture.

Alcertaining, by experiments, the effeQs of various procefles of cookery Upon the food of cattle.

Improvement in kitchen fire places and utenfls for ſh:ps, and for improv- ing the apparatus and. proceſs uſed for procuring freſh water at ſea.

Improvements in the conftruétion of lime kilns.

Experiments on the advantages of mixing clay with coal or cinders to make fire balls for fuel,

Improvement in the compoſition of mortar or cements,

On the beſt method of building cottages or farm houſes with earth ram- zed together, as is done in foreign countries.

Tinprovements i: the various proceſſes of procuring ixon from its ore, and in working and refining iron and ſteel.

At the anniverſary meeting of the above inſtitution, the Earl of Winchel- ſea was re-ele&ted preſident. The Earl of Morton, the Earl of Aylesford, and Henry Cavindiſh, Eſq. managers for three years; the Earl Spencer,’ Sir William Young and Samuel Thornton, Eſq. viſitors for three ycars, in the room of thoſe who went out by rotation; Sir John Hippifly Cox was choſen treaſurer in the room of Mr. Barnard, and Dr. Glaße re-ele&ted ſecretary.

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d V 4-9 904° Agriculture, Monthly Report of Agriculture, from the Midland Counties, for May 1800. N account of the ſtate of agriculture within the ſpace of time and country above ſpecified, may be given in few words. Every where the ſpring ſeeds have been thrown into the ground, under the moſt en- çouraging probabilities of tuture plenty,—the ſeaſon for this portion of the huſbandman’s labour having been. uncommonly fine and favourable. The timely ſhowers of rain which immediately«ſucceeded, ſerved the twofold Purpoſe of caufing the newly ſown ſeeds rapidly to vegetate, and the paſ- tures to be cloathed with luxuriant verdure. We have now only to anti- cipate, or rather to /upplicate, a propitious harveſt of both hav and grain; which, if realized by a kind Providence,<<“ the complaints of the needy, and the deep hghing of the po00r,’ occaſioned by the dearth which has long pre- vailed, will be heard no more, and abundance, like the clouds of darkneſs, will bleſs. the land.- So that, nearly in the language of the tuneful Bard of Nature, we may, with pious hope, thus addreſs the ſuffering,‘yet not deſponding, claſſes of our countrymen: “ Ye good diſtreſs?d! Ye noble few! who here unbending ſtand Beneath waNT?s prefſure,—yet bear up awhile; And what your bounded view, which only ſaw A little part, deem’d evil, is no more:— The ſtorms of angry Heav”n will quickly paſs, And plenty, Peace, and love encircle all,”

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