[12] The gentlemen chosen were the Earl of Winchelsea, Mr. Wilberforce, the Rev. Dr. Glasse, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Richard Sulivan, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. Parry, and Mr. Bernard.
[13] If any other season should be thought more convenient for these elections, it will of course be chosen instead of that here proposed.
[14] No notice of workshops exists in the first number of the Journal, dated April 1800. In the second number, containing the report to the managers on May 25, 1801, it is said that eighteen or twenty young men are to be boarded and lodged in the house (p. 27, Journal).
[15] This gallery staircase has left its mark in the Institution, and is drawn in the old plans of the house. There was originally no door into the theatre under the gallery.
[16] Sir J. Hippesley, elected May 19.
[17] Now the anteroom.
[18] Now the lecturers’ room.
[19] This was part of the front area.
[20] Now the chemical laboratory, 1871.
[21] This and a line below are the only traces of praise of Count Rumford that are to be found in the records of the Institution.