APPENDIX II. 417 



APPENDIX II. 



CONTAINING A LETTER FROM DR. YOUNG TO COUNT RUMFORD, "WHEN 

 THE OFFER OF THE PROFESSORSHIP AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION WAS 

 MADE TO HIM ; AND TWO LETTERS TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS ON THE 

 INVENTION OF A MICROMETER TO BE USED FOR MEASURING WOOL. 

 THE ORIGINALS OF THESE LETTERS ARE AMONGST THB PAPERS OF SIR 

 JOSEPH BANKS. 



DB. YOUNG TO COUNT BUMFOBD. 



Welbeck Street, Thursday, July 9, 1801. 



SIE, I have received your obliging letter, and beg leave 

 to return you and the managers thanks for the honour you 

 do me. 



I am willing to undertake the various charges which you 

 have the goodness to detail, and I natter myself that you 

 will have no reason to complain of any want of zeal on my 

 part in the service of the Royal Institution. 



But I confess I think it would be in some measure 

 degrading both to me and to the Institution that the salary, 

 which appears to me to have been no more than moderate 

 before, should now be reduced one-fourth, 1 at the same 

 time that the labour and responsibility of the employment 

 are rather increased than lessened. For, whatever might 

 have been expected of the late professor respecting the 

 Journals and the superintendence of the house, I do not 

 apprehend that any specific stipulation was made on the 

 subject ; and, as I am determined to devote a greater share 

 of attention to the Institution than he ever appears to have 

 done, I do not see that my education and opportunities 



1 Count Rumford must have proposed a salary of 2251. (p. 238). 

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