The buildings were completed at an expense, including furniture and apparatus, of ??28,954. 3. 8., leaving no provision for the endowment of professorships; for which object the managers applied to government, and in the year 1814 received from parliament a grant of ??1500, which was continued during the years 1815 and 1816; after which it ceased till 1824, when it was renewed on the recommendatio