182 THE EAKLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. IV. 



months the idea was carried out. Eumford's Insti- 

 tution was formed. He gives a long account of all he 

 had done and of all he intended to do. Hence this 

 report is a record of his mind as well as a record of the 

 Institution. 



He dismisses the professors, and lectures, and lecture 

 rooms with four lines. He dwells at more length on 

 the spacious and complete chemical laboratory, fur- 

 nished for carrying on upon a large scale all the various 

 processes of practical chemistry and chemical analysis 

 and for making new and interesting experiments. He 

 speaks of a director of the laboratory, a chemical 

 operator, and an assistant in the laboratory (a very in- 

 genious German chemist), who will devote his whole 

 time to the business of it. Nearly a page is given to 

 the workshops of the Institution, 'where models of new 

 and useful inventions will be constructed and sold at 

 reasonable prices to professors and subscribers.' 'These 

 are quite finished, and are now furnished with the 

 most complete set of tools that can be procured.' 



He speaks of the Master of the Workshops, who will 

 take care of the philosophical apparatus and direct 

 the workmen, and says he will likewise superintend 

 and instruct all such ingenious and well-behaved young 

 men as may, at the recommendation of the professors, 

 be admitted into the workshops of the Institution to 

 receive instruction and to complete their education in 

 any one or more of the mechanic arts. The following 

 workmen, he says, are already engaged for the work- 

 shops of the Institution, viz. 



A mathematical instrument maker, a model maker, a 



