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strangers still enjoy their promenades in his English 

 Garden. The Workhouse and the Asylum for the 

 poor still serve their original uses. Three years ago a 

 superb bronze statue of Rumford, cast in the famous 

 foundry of the city, was set up in one of the public 

 squares of Munich. Yet none the less is it true, that, 

 in the changing of generations and under the circum- 

 stances of social life in a populous community, while 

 the fame of a philanthropist may be historically assured, 

 the practical fruits of his schemes and plans and labors 

 may not be apparent or seemingly permanent. 



In his journeys in the south of Europe, Count Rum- 

 ford, as has already been related, even while wearied 

 and ill, and seeking relief and rest, incessantly busred 

 himself in the service of the charitable and reformatory 

 institutions of the cities through which he passed. His 

 friend Pictet, whom he had known by correspondence 

 before they personally met, had taken care by his own 

 pen and by the help of his fellow-editors and correspond- 

 ents, to extend the fame of the Count both for benevo- 

 lence and for science, through the voluminous pages of 

 the Bibliotheque Britannique. I have translated from 

 those pages the following letter from Dr. Joly, as a happy 

 recognition of the eminent esteem which Count Rum- 

 ford had secured in both departments of his activity. 



" ONNEX, near Geneva, November 2,5, 1797. 



"GENTLEMEN, Among the very many important services 

 for which we are indebted to your excellent journal, there 

 ought especially to be made known there the works of the 

 Count Rumford. In the midst of a war which has suspended 

 so many enterprises, you have given the results of investigations 

 and experiments which it would seem as if only peace could 

 favor. While warriors have been establishing their fame upon 



