622 Life of Count Rumford. 



Magazine, or British Register (London), for Septem- 

 ber, 1814, appeared the following: 



"At his seat near Paris, 60, died, August 21, that 

 illustrious philosopher, Benjamin Thompson, Count 

 Rumford, F. R. S., Member of the Institute, &c., an 

 American by birth, but the friend of man, and an honor 

 to the whole human race." 



The editors promised a memoir of the Count in their 

 pages, and redeemed the promise by publishing, in the 

 number for May, 1815 (p. 328, etc.), a translation 

 of a large part of Cuvier's Eloge. In connection with 

 Cuvier's reference to the Count's agency in establishing 

 the Royal Institution, the editors introduce in a note a- 

 very sharp allusion to the variance alleged to have been 

 excited by him among his associates there. The terms 

 of the censure are somewhat severe as directed against 

 one pronounced in the same pages to be "an honor to 

 the whole human race." "We feel it proper to state, 

 that the Count assumed the character of absolute con- 

 troller, as well as projector, of this establishment, and 

 conducted himself with a degree of hauteur which dis- 

 gusted its patrons, and almost broke the heart of our 

 amiable friend and its first professor, Dr. Garnett." 



The other contemporary references and obituary no- 

 tices which I have seen were, however brief, eulogistic, 

 and not qualified by any abating terms. 



The Gentleman's Magazine (London), in the number 

 for September, 1814, announced Count Rumford's 

 death, and promised some memoirs of him in its next 

 number. Accordingly the promised communication 

 appeared in October.* I suppose the original part of 



* The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol. LXXXIV., Part 

 Second, p. 394. London, 1814. 



