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happy if yon will write whether there is anything he 

 might be employed upon until you come to town. 



In another letter he says : 



The buildings are advancing rapidly, and I hope the 

 lecture room at least will be ready by the 1st of January. 

 The laboratory will, I think, be found very convenient, 

 being airy and well lighted. 



During his stay at Harrogate Rumford made careful 

 experiments on himself with regard to the warm bath. 

 These are given in his thirteenth essay, on the ' Salu- 

 brity of Warm Bathing.' He found that a daily bath 

 at ninety-six degrees or ninety-seven for half-an-hour 

 two hours before dinner for five weeks increased the 

 appetite, the digestion, the spirits, the strength, and 

 the insensibility to cold. 



On leaving Harrogate he went to Scotland. 



A visit of ceremony was paid him by the magistrates 

 of Edinburgh ; he was consulted respecting the abolition 

 of mendicity, and the measures which he recommended 

 were speedily executed with complete success. 



He was made an honorary member of the Royal 

 Society and of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 Edinburgh, and he received a gold snuff-box as a 

 compliment for his assistance in reforming the culinary 

 establishment of Heriot's Hospital, and was elected a 

 member of the Society of Scotland for Bettering the 

 Condition of the Poor. His letters of thanks for these 

 last honours are preserved. 



To the Lord Provost of Edinburgh he wrote : 



I shall always remember with pleasure, and with the 

 most sincere gratitude, the kind and nattering attentions 



M 



