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ENTRANCE TO BATH, FROM SOUTH SIDE OF THE BRIDGE.

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THE LITERARY INSTITUTION.

This useful institution is in the south-eastern part of the City, and occupies a handsome building opposite the Pump-Room of the Duke of Kingston's Baths. The association was formed in 1816: on its first meeting it had nearly one hundred members, and has ever since been well supported. It is similar in its purposes to the scientific institutions of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle; and its Lecture Room is supplied with an extensive collection of furnaces, retorts, and every necessary apparatus for experiments and exhibitions to illustrate the various branches of experimental Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, and the several arts with which they are connected.

Not only as affording the most rational amusements, but as laying a substantial foundation of useful knowledge in the minds of its younger members, this Institution recommends itself to the opulent manufacturer, the agriculturist, the ingenious mechanic, and to the votaries of science of every class of society.

The following are the RULES of this SOCIETY:

1. That the meetings of the Society be on every Monday evening throughout the year, excepting the months of June, July, August, and September, at half-past seven, and to close at half-past nine.

2. The first part of the evening, not exceeding one hour, to be appropriated to the communication, from any of the members, of different interesting subjects connected with the objects of the Society, and of proposals relative to experiments desired to be tried. The remaining part of the evening to be devoted to the reading and discussion of any paper presented to the Society, or of any communication relative to literature, experimental philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, mechanics, &c. from any of its members.

3. That each member shall be entitled to introduce each evening, a lady, or a young gentleman, under sixteen years of age; or may be permitted to introduce a friend, if not under the above condition, so that the said friend shall not be introduced more than twice in the same session. No person, not a member, can be admitted without a card signed by the member by whom he is introduced.

4. That all the members of this Society are free to all the lectures delivered by Dr. Wilkinson, in the Kingston Lecture Room.

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