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The Surrey Institution was one of four such notable organisations in London in the early nineteenth century; its model was the Royal Institution. The other two were:
- The London Institution
- The Russell Institution.
Charles Lamb in a letter of about 1807–8 referred to four, though with the Southwark Institution for the Surrey, while alluding to "ten thousand" similar institutions.
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