INDEX. 



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port of the committee on, 203 ; 

 description of by Young, 206 ; 

 progress of, 258 et seq. ; com- 

 pared with the London Institu- 

 tion, 275 ; difficulties of, 281 ; 

 value of the property, 282 ; 

 described by Davy, 280, 292 et 

 seq. ; income and expenditure 

 of, from the commencement to 

 1814, 425 



JENNER, Dr., 303 



Journal of the Royal Institution, 



153, 155, 181, 187, 188, 197, 



210 



KING Rrrrs. 63, 66 

 Kitchens, 151 



LABORATORY, 152, 155, 159, 160, 



204, 269 



Landseer, Mr., 272, 273 

 Lavoisier, Madame, 83, 88, 92, 97, 



101, 113, 189 

 Lawrence, Mr., 277, 303 

 Lectures, first, at the Institution, 



167, 170 ; of Davy and Young, 



191 ; of Dalton, 2'l9 

 Leslie, General, 21, 23 

 Library, foundation of, 204, 212 

 Light, experiments on, 40 

 Long Island, 25 



MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY, discovery 



of, 279 

 Marion, General, defeated by 



Thompson, 22 



Master of the Workshops, 181 

 Mechanics' School, 142, 162 

 Mellish, his house bought, 138 

 Military Academy, Munich, 36 

 Mineralogical collection, 266, 267, 



268, 270 



Modfl room, 1 55 

 Motion heat, 51 

 Munich, 28, 31, 34, 39, 50, 59, 82, 



99, 113 



NAPOLEON, First Consul, descrip- 

 tion of, 73, 79 



BUM 



National Institute, 75 

 Nova Scotia, 25, 26 



PARLIAMENT, Act of, 288, 291 

 Payne, William, 281, 305, 306 

 Pictet, Professor, his account of 



Rumford, 27, 145 

 Printing press, 153, 189. 260 

 Proposals for founding the Royal 



Institution. 114, 121 

 Proprietors, 271, 273, 285, 287, 



296, 303 

 Pupils in the laboratory, 269 



RESIGNATION of Dr. Garnett, 177 



Report on the Institution, 181 



Repository, 152 



Rolfe, Mrs. Colonel, the first wife 

 of Rumford, 4 



Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, 

 Count, 1 ; his education, 2 ; his 

 first note-book, 3 ; his first mar- 

 riage, 4 ; major of militia, 5 ; 

 persecuted as Royalist, 6, 7, 8, 

 9, 10 ; leaves his wife, child, 

 and country, 11 ; made Secretary 

 of Georgia, 13; volunteer in 

 British fleet, 14 ; Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, 15 ; Under Se- 

 cretary of State, 17; Deputy 

 Inspector General of Provincial 

 Forces, 17 ; Lieut.-Colonel of 

 King's American Dragoons, 19 ; 

 embarksforNewYork,20; arrives 

 in Carolina, 21 ; commands the 

 cavalry there, 21 ; his action on 

 the Santee river, 22 ; mentioned 

 in the general orders by General 

 Leslie, 23 ; arrives at New York, 

 24 ; consulted by Sir H. Clinton, 

 24 ; commands at Huntingdon, 

 Long Island, 25 ; volunteers to 

 serve in West Indies, 26 ; returns 

 to London, 26 ; leaves England 

 for the Austrian service, 27 

 meets the nephew of the Elector 

 of Bavaria, 28 ; goes to Munich, 

 28; knighted and enters Ba- 

 varian service, 28 ; aide-de-camp 

 and colonel in Bavaria, 29 ; hi s 

 reforms in Bavaria, 30-37 ; ex- 



