412 Life of Count Rumford. 



i SIR, The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain have directed me to transmit to the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences the enclosed Prospectus. I have there- 

 fore the honour to forward the same to your Excellency, and 

 to request that you would lay it, or cause it to be laid, before 

 that learned and respectable body. 



" I have likewise the honour, in conformity to the Instruc- 

 tions I have received, to request that the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences may be assured of the sincere desire of the 

 Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain to cultivate 

 a friendly Correspondence with them, and to co-operate with 

 them in all things that may contribute to the advancement of 

 Science and to the general Diffusion of the Knowledge of all 

 such new and useful Discoveries and mechanical Improvements 

 as may tend to increase the enjoyments and promote the Indus- 

 try, Happiness, and Prosperity of Mankind. 



" I have the honour to be with great Respect, 



" Your Excellency's most Obedient and most Humble Ser- 

 vant, 



"RUMFORD. 



" ROYAL INSTITUTION, Albemarle St., London, i? June, 1800. 



"His Excellency JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States 

 and President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." 



With a similar intent the Count addressed the follow- 

 ing letter to the President of Harvard College : 



" ROYAL INSTITUTION, Albemarle St., London, i? June, 1800. 



"SiR, By direction of the Managers of the Royal Institu- 

 tion of Great Britain, I have the honour to transmit to the 

 President of Harvard University the inclosed publication, in 

 which an account is given of an establishment lately formed in 

 this metropolis for promoting useful knowledge. 



" I have likewise the honour, in conformity to the instruc- 

 tions I have received, to request that the heads of the University 

 may be assured of the sincere desire of the Managers of the 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain to cultivate a friendly corre- 



