190 THE EARLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. IV. 



separate courses of lectures on tanning, and on staining and 

 printing cotton, but purposes to incorporate them in his 

 general course. The attic floor is far from being finished ; 

 they have not yet begun to plaster it, but it is all lathed. 

 There are three additional annual subscribers, one of them 

 through your letter (the circular). The Committee of 

 Chemistry have resolved to recommend to the managers to I 

 provide apparatus to the amount of 314L 11s. for the labo- 

 ratory, and to stop the passage through and attach the ser- 

 vants' hall to the laboratory. 1 



He ends his letter thus : 



I anxiously wish for your return, as I can perceive that 

 the Institution begins to feel the want of you, I have the 

 honour to be, with the greatest respect, Sir, your most 

 humble Servant, W. S. 



The energy of supervision and the power of organi- 

 sation of Count Eumford enabled him in 1801 to work 

 out most of his plan ; but to keep it in action far more 

 money was wanted than he had obtained, and to perfect 

 it he must have continued much longer to act the part 

 of a dictator. Before 1801 was ended a new and power- 

 ful interest began to draw him away from his Institu- 

 tion and from England. 



In three years he had made more or less perfect 

 working models of an industrial school for mechanics ; 

 of a society for diffusing useful knowledge by publi- 

 cations and lectures ; of a mechanical exhibition of 

 things useful to the poor and to the rich ; of an asso- 

 ciation for the promotion of scientific investigation by 

 means of different committees of workers ; and of a 

 convenient modern club, with a school of cookery 



1 This was part of the front area. 



