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that the managers will be able not only to finish all 

 the new works, but also to furnish the different apart- 

 ments and workshops, and complete the arrangement of 

 the establishment in all its details, without incurring 

 any permanent debt, or calling upon the subscribers 

 for any part of the 7,000. which was generously offered 

 for defraying the expense of the new buildings.' Lord 

 Kinnaird was elected treasurer. 



In May Count Eumford reported that, ' as a Master of 

 the Workshops will soon be wanted, he had taken con- 

 siderable pains to find out some person qualified 

 for that office, and he had found a sober, steady, single, 

 mathematical instrument maker, to whom he proposed 

 to give 801. a year and a room in the house.' 



Sir Joseph Banks recommended Mr. Boekman, a 

 German chemist, to be engaged in the laboratory at 

 501. a year and a room in the house. 



On May 25 Count Rumford laid before the managers 

 his report on the progress, present state, and probable 

 future prosperity and utility of the Institution. This 

 was ordered to be printed in the Journals of the 

 Institution, and this report, with a paper by Count 

 Rumford ' Observations Relative to the Means of 

 Increasing the Quantities of Heat Obtained in the 

 Combustion of Fuel ' forms the second number of the 

 Journals edited by Rumford alone. 



In this paper a picture is seen of the Institution as 

 Rumford wished it to be. Except when prevented by 

 illness and care for his health, he had worked night 

 and day with all his energy to make his prospectus 

 of February 1799 a realised fact. After twenty-eight 



