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death-bed) in 1827, Young, as foreign secretary of the 

 Royal Society, wrote to him : ' I also should claim some 

 right to participate in the compliment which is tacitly 

 paid to myself in common with you by this adjudication, 

 but, considering that more than a quarter of a century 

 is passed since my principal experiments were made, I 

 can only feel it a sort of anticipation of posthumous 

 fame, which I have never particularly coveted.' 



In order further to apply some of his scientific re- 

 searches to practice in the spring of 1796, on the invi- 

 tation of his friend Mr. Secretary Pelham, Rumford 

 went to Dublin. 



In the house of the Dublin Society he fitted up a 

 laundry and a model kitchen for private families, and 

 also a cottage fire-place, and a model lime-kiln in the 

 courtyard of the house of the Society ; also in the hall 

 in which the meetings of the Royal Irish Academy are 

 held he fitted up two chimney fire-places. He 

 contrived a fire-place for heating one of the principal 

 churches in Dublin, and he promised to give a plan 

 for heating the superb new building destined for the 

 meeting of the Irish House of Commons. In the 

 Linen Hall at Dublin he fitted up an oblong square 

 boiler as a model for bleachers. 



He was made a member of the Royal Irish Academy 

 and of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, and 

 he received after he left the country the public thanks 

 of the Grand Jury of the County of Dublin, and of the 

 Lord Mayor of the city, as well as of the Lord 

 Lieutenant as the head of the Government. 



Upon his return to London he superintended some 



