Europe. He did not forget his native land, though she 

 had treated him so unfairly ; when the honor of knight- 

 hood was tendered him, he chose as his title the name 

 of the Yankee village where he had taught school, and 

 was thenceforward known as Count Rumford. And at 

 his death, by founding a professorship in Harvard Col- 

 lege, and donating a prize-fund to the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences at Boston, he showed his in- 

 terest in her prosperity and advancement.^ Nor has 

 the field of vital forces been without earnest workers 

 belonging to our own country. Professors John W. 

 Drapers 8 and Joseph Henry 39 were among its earliest 

 explorers. And in 1851, Dr. J. H. Watters, now of St. 

 Louis, published a theory of the origin of vital force, 

 almost identical with that for which Dr. Carpenter, of 

 London, has of late received so much credit. Indeed, 

 there is Some reason to believe that Dr. Watters's essay 

 may have suggested to the distinguished English physi- 

 ologist the germs of his own theory.^ A paper on this 

 subject by Prof. Joseph Leconte, of Columbia, S. C., pub- 

 lished in 1859, attracted much attention abroad.^ 1 The 

 remarkable results already given on the relation of heat 

 to mental work, which thus far are unique in science, we 

 owe to Professor J. S. Lombard, of Harvard College : < 2 

 th6 very combination of metals used in his apparatus 

 being devised by our distinguished electrical engineer, 

 Mr. Moses G. Farmer. Finally, researches conducted 

 by Dr. T. R. Noyes in the Physiological Laboratory of 

 Yale College, have confirmed the theory that muscular 

 tissue does not wear during action, up to the point of 

 fatigue ; and other researches by Dr. L. H. Wood have 

 first established the same great truth for brain-tissue.^ 



