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Other resolutions were passed for effecting a pre- 

 liminary organization. Thomas Bernard, Esq., was 

 chosen Secretary. The Proposals for forming the In- 

 stitution, as published by Count Rumford, were ap- 

 proved and adopted by the managers, " subject, how- 

 ever, to such partial modifications as shall be by them 

 found to be necessary or useful." Count Rumford and 

 Mr. Bernard were appointed to prepare a draught of a 

 charter.* Earls Morton and Spencer, Sir Joseph 

 Banks, and Mr. Pelham, were requested to lay the 

 Proposals before his Majesty, the Royal Family, the 

 Ministers, the great officers of State, the members 

 of both Houses of Parliament and of the Privy Coun- 

 cil, and before the twelve Judges. Thanks were also 

 voted to the above-named booksellers for their gen- 

 erosity in offering to print gratuitously five hundred 

 copies of the "Proposals." 



Count Rumford, with dignified modesty, yet with 

 due urgency, attaches a fly-leaf to his pamphlet, with 

 a printed form for subscriptions and donations. 



We turn now to another contemporary publication 

 which presents to us the organized completion of the 

 establishment in the conception and initiation of which 

 Count Rumford had exercised such ingenuity and prac- 

 tical wisdom, and in whose service he had been so 

 zealously engaged. It is a publication in quarto form, 

 of ninety-two pages, bearing the following title : " The 

 Prospectus, Charter, Ordinances, and By-Laws of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain. Together with 



* Sir John Sinclair, in his "Correspondence, &c., Vol. I. p. 28 (London, 1831)," 

 says of the Institution, that it "was placed on a permanent footing by an act which 

 I was the means of carrying through Parliament." 



