Surrey Institution Lectures
The Institution offered members and visitors lectures on a variety of subjects, the earliest of which included chemistry, mineralogy and natural philosophy, given by employed and visiting scientists, scholars and artists. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, for instance, lectured on belles lettres in 1812-13; William Hazlitt, on the English Poets in 1817 and the English Comic Writers in 1818; Goldsworthy Gurney found employment there in 1822, and there devised an improved blowpipe for which he won some renown. Other lecturers included:
- Friedrich Christian Accum, from 1809;
- Samuel Wesley, in 1809 and 1811.
- Gregor von Feinaigle, in 1811;
- John Mason Good in 1811–2;
- Olinthus Gilbert Gregory in 1812;
- John Landseer in 1813;
- John Murray in 1816.
- William Crotch in 1818.
- James Elmes, winter 1819–20.
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