268 Life of Count Rumford. 



In view of all the circumstances and of the difficulties 

 which the case presented, one may reasonably affirm 

 that when the honored and venerated chief-justice 

 gave validity to the decree of the court, he might have 

 felt the full assurance that Count Rumford himself 

 would have dictated its terms. 



In the year 1839 the Academy gave, from the inter- 

 est of the Rumford Fund, the sum of six hundred dol- 

 lars to Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia, in consideration of 

 his invention of the compound blow-pipe and his 

 improvements in galvanic apparatus. 



The Rumford Medal was awarded by the Academy, 

 in 1862, to 'John B. Ericsson for his caloric engine.* 

 In 1865 the Medal was awarded to Daniel Treadwell, 

 former Rumford Professor in Harvard College, for 

 improvements in the management of heat.f On Feb- 

 ruary 26, 1867, the Medal was presented to Alvan 

 Clark for improvement in the lens of the refracting 

 telescope. 



On January u, 1870, the Medal was presented to 

 George H. Corliss for- improvements in the steam- 

 engine. 



The Rumford Fund, in 1870, exceeded thirty-seven 

 thousand dollars. 



A committee of the Academy, called the Rumford 

 Committee, is chosen annually, who report upon the 

 fund and recommend appropriations from it for pur- 

 poses conformed to the decree of the court. 



* See Proceedings of the Academy, Vol. VI. p. 26. 

 f Ibid., Vol. VI. pp. 495, 497, 516. 



