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of State, 19; gains favor of Duke 

 of Bavaria, 20; knighted by 

 George III, 21; honors received 

 in Bavaria, 21; name of Rumford 

 taken, 21; discoveries concerning 

 heat and heating and quotations 

 from papers on the subject, 22, 32; 

 characteristics as scientist, 26; 

 literary style, 27; reforms in 

 Bavarian army, 27; philanthropic 

 work in Bavaria and England, 

 29-33; researches on clothing, 36; 

 and on convection, 37; gifts to 

 scientific societies, 39; personal 

 appearance and qualities, 40; re- 

 turn to Munich and in command 

 of Bavarian troops, 41; establish- 

 ment of Royal Institution, Lon- 

 don, 43; introduction to Napo- 

 leon, 46; second marriage, 46; 

 researches in light, 48; surface 

 tension, 49; death, 50; j. W. Gibbs 

 compared with, 342; also 22, 414, 



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Rumford, Essex County, Mass., 14 

 " Rumford Apparatus," 18 

 Rumford fund, of the American 



Academy, 39, 40; of the Royal 



Society, 39, 361, 415 

 Rumford Historical Association, 10 

 Rumford photometer, 48 

 Rumford professorship at Harvard, 



J 3 



"Rumford roaster," 32 

 Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 95 

 Rush, Hon. Richard, 131 

 Ryder, John Adam, 331 



St. Hilaire, Auguste de, 177, 194 note 



St. Louis, World's Fair, Interna- 

 tional Congress of Arts and 

 Sciences at, 380 



St. Stanislaus, Order of, conferred 

 upon Count Rumford, 21 



Salisbury, Rollin D., 254 



Salpa, investigations on, by W. K. 

 Brooks, 435-437, 445 



Saskatchewan, astronomical expedi- 

 tion to, 1860, 370 



Savage, Dr. Thomas S., work on the 

 chimpanzee, 186-188; priority of 

 claim, 189; also 203 



Say, Thomas, 63, 313 



Schubert prize, 385 



Schreinemakers, F. A. H., 355 

 Science, first public lectures on, 109 

 Scientific periodicals early in 1800, 



log 

 Scientific research, publications on, 



by Smithsonian Institution, 139 

 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 402 

 Scott, Prof. J. G., 163 

 Scrope, George Poulett, 261 

 Sea-cow, see Manatee 

 Sea-gull, The, see Wilkes Exploring 



Expedition 

 Sea-serpent, 198, 302 

 Secchi, Angelo, 129 

 Selby, Prideaux John, 80 

 Self-induction of electric current, 



127 



Seybert, Dr. Adam, 105 

 Shattuck, Miss Lydia W., 163 

 Shepard, C. U., 106 

 Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh, 



3.87 



Silliman, Benjamin, ancestry and 

 birth, 91; early life, 92; admitted 

 to the bar, 92; tutor at Yale, 92; 

 interest in science, 93; account of 

 introduction of study of chemistry 

 at Yale, 93; study in Philadelphia, 

 95; first course of lectures, 96; 

 goes to Europe to purchase appa- 

 ratus, 97; narrative of travels pub- 

 lished, 97; student at University 

 of Edinburgh, 98-101; discussion 

 of Wernerian theory, 100; return 

 to Yale, 102; characteristics as 

 teacher of undergraduates, 102; 

 and as a colleague, 104; his meagre 

 collections, 105; purchase of the 

 Gibbs Cabinet, 105; Trumbull 

 collection, 106; and the Clark 

 telescope, 106; establishment of 

 Yale Medical School, 106; and 

 Sheffield Scientific School, 107; 

 his pupils and assistants, 107 note; 

 popularity as lecturer, 108, 109; 

 inauguration of Lowell Institute, 

 1 08; his real distinction, 109; 

 estimates of scientific work, in, 

 116; later travels, 113; meeting 

 with scientists abroad, 114; pa- 

 triotism, 114; domestic life, 115; 

 death, 116; contributions to 

 science, 89; reminiscences of D. C. 

 Gilman, 90; also 235, 236, 240, 290 



