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NO other Institution has been so closely associated with the greatest discoveries of Chemical and Physical Science during the present century as that which has its abode in the well-known building in Albemarle Street. The names of Rumford, Banks, Young, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, will always add lustre to its annals; nor will it be forgotten that in its laboratory were made the most famous discoveries of Davy and Faraday. Dr. Bence Jones gives us in this very interesting volume a sketch of the history of the Institution, derived from its own record of proceedings, interspersed with biographical notices of its founder, Count Rumford, and its most eminent professors, Garnett, Young, and Davy. Of Faraday we hear comparatively little, Dr. Bence Jones having sketched his life in a separate biography; and with regard to the eminent men whose present connection with the Institution is adding fresh popularity to its courses of lectures, he is altogether silent.
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The History of the Royal Institution * . Nature 5, 397–398 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005397a0
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