List of Illustrations

Preface

Susan Greenfield

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

Frank A.J.L. James

`A national treasure house of a unique kind' (W.L. Bragg): Some Reflections on Two Hundred Years of Institutional History

Sophie Forgan

Acquiring and Constructing the Royal Institution in Mayfair

H.J.V. Tyrrell

Forging Identity: The Royal Institution's Visual Collections

G.M. Prescott

Establishing the Royal Institution: Rumford, Banks and Davy

David Knight

Running the Royal Institution: Faraday as an Administrator

Frank A.J.L. James

John Tyndall at the Royal Institution

J.D. Burchfield

Exploring the Hyperarctic: James Dewar at the Royal Institution

William H. Brock

`Temporary Hotel Accommodation'? The Early History of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, 1894--1923

Katherine D. Watson

Craftsmanship and Social Service: W.H. Bragg and the Modern Royal Institution

Jeff Hughes

`A Big Happy Family': The Royal Institution under William and Lawrence Bragg, and the History of Molecular Biology

Viviane Quirke

L'affaire Andrade or how not to Modernise a Traditional Institution

Frank A.J.L. James

Viviane Quirke

Appendix 1: Fifty Years at the Royal Institution

Ralph Cory

Appendix 2: Some Memories of the Royal Institution and its Laboratories 1900-1950

W.J. Green

Appendix 3: Officers and Staff of the Royal Institution 1799-2002

Appendix 4: Biographical Register

Bibliography

Index