many of which continue today. The most famous of these were both founded in 1825: the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and the Friday Evening Discourses.

Despite Garnett's first lectures being a great success, his salary was frozen, he was not allowed to practise as a doctor, and Humphry Davy was appointed as his assistant, so he resigned. Humphry Davy was an even greater success, as was his assistant and successor Michael