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stitution came to 8,100Z. The Institution has been completed 

 without any debt, and the annual income is quite sufficient 

 to defray all the expenses of keeping it up. 



He ended thus : 



The Royal Institution of Great Britain may therefore be 

 considered as finished and freely established. That it may 

 long continue to flourish is no doubt the ardent wish of 

 those who are connected with it, and also of all those who 

 are acquainted with the principles on which it is founded, 

 and who know how powerfully it must contribute to the 

 general diffusion of an active spirit of inquiry and useful 

 improvement among all the ranks of society. 



Such was Count Rumford's favourable statement 

 when he was about to take leave for a time, and, as it 

 proved, for ever, of the Institution he had founded. 



The contrast between this report and that which he 

 made to the managers only one week afterwards shows 

 that he was very suddenly made aware of the changes 

 which his absence would occasion in the Institution. 



This, his last report, was dated May 3, and it was 

 taken into consideration by the managers the day after 

 he left for Bavaria. He begins by saying that at the 

 desire of the managers he has made some inquiries and 

 taken some preparatory steps for making several new 

 arrangements in the internal regulation of the house 

 of the Institution. 



First, of the Journals, to relieve the managers from the 

 care and anxiety which is ever inseparably connected with 

 the direction of business of account, of multifarious detail, 

 and where inspection and control are difficult and some- 

 times impossible. It was proposed to put the publication of 

 the Journals into the hands of Dr. Young, Mr. Davy, and 



