6 14 Life of Count Rumford. 



In Le Moniteur Universe^ Paris, of August 25, 1814, 

 appeared a notice, dated the 24th, of the Count's 

 death and burial, of which the following is a trans- 

 lation : 



" Monsieur the Count of Rumford, Associate Member of 

 the Institute of France, Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 

 etc., etc., died in the night between Sunday and Monday, at 

 his country-house at Auteuil, of a nervous fever [des suites 

 d'une fievre nerveuse]. This celebrated man has consecrated 

 his life to the study of the sciences, and always in the service 

 of humanity. He leaves many works which cannot fail to 

 insure that his memory shall be cherished. He was but sixty 

 years of age [in his sixty-second year]. He was interred this 

 morning at Auteuil." 



Among the daughter's papers I have found a sheet 

 of manuscript in French, containing the "Address pro- 

 nounced over the grave of Count Rumford by M. Ben- 

 jamin Delessert, on the 24th of August, 1814." This 

 also I translate : 



" It is permitted to me, my friends, as a member of the 

 Administration of Hospitals, to be the medium of expressing 

 our sorrow at the loss of the distinguished man who was pleased 

 to honor me with his friendship. I leave it to more eloquent 

 voices to speak of the productions of his rare genius ; to boast 

 of his numerous discoveries in the sciences, and his ingenious 

 methods of penetrating to the secrets of nature ; to describe 

 his theory of heat, his experiments upon light, his observa- 

 tions upon combustion, upon steam, upon gunpowder ; and to 

 commemorate him as the founder of the Royal Institution of 

 London. 



" I wish here and now only to recall to your minds those of 

 his most directly useful and beneficent works which have made 

 his name known in every part of Europe. Who is ignorant of 

 what he has done for relieving the scarcity in food ; of his multi- 



