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A SPECIAL general meeting of members of the Royal Institution will be held on Monday next, Oct. 8, when the managers will place before them several matters relating to the general position of the Institution and desirable alterations in the structure. The lecture theatre is now much out-of-date, partly on account of natural deterioration, but more particularly through the rise of the accepted standard. Considerable changes must be made in the structure, the seating, and the exits if they are to conform to the requirements which are now usual and are indeed enforced in the case of public buildings. A large sum of money would be required to carry out the rearrangements and additions under consideration. The expense is not lessened by the determination, which the managers consider to be of the highest importance, that the historic rooms shall not be touched. The sum required is in the neighbourhood of £75,000. At the meeting on Oct. 8, the managers will ask for powers to proceed with negotiations and the preparation of detailed plans. These matters will be submitted for approval or rejection at a further meeting of members in November. There is, of course, the hope that by that time some friend of the Institution may have come forward to save the necessity for disposing on lease of any part of the building.
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News and Views. Nature 122, 546–549 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122546a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122546a0