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SAV 



periments on conduction of heat, 

 38 ; experiments on light, 40 ; 

 his honours, 41 ; his essays, 43, 

 49 ; on Heat, 50 ; his medals in 

 America, 53 ; in England, 54 ; 

 awarded the first Rumford medal, 

 54 ; his work and honours in 

 Ireland, 55 ; his picture by his 

 daughter, 57 ; saves Munich, 

 59 ; Minister Plenipotentiary 

 and Envoy Extraordinary to 

 England, 61 ; not received, 62 ; 

 invited to America, 64 ; founds 

 the Royal Institution, 69 ; re- 

 visits Munich, 71 ; first visits 

 Paris, 73 ; leaves England, 77 ; 

 returns to Munich, 81 ; his en- 

 gagement to Madame Lavoisier, 

 87 ; his marriage, 90 ; further 

 scientific researches, 93 ; his 

 wretched married life, 94 ; goes 

 to Auteuil, 96 ; his separation, 

 97 ; returns to Munich, 99 ; 

 further researches, 104; visited 

 by Davy, 105 ; his life at Au- 

 teuil, 106; his death, 109; his 

 will, 112; his bequest to Har- 

 vard College, 112; to Davy, 

 113; founds the Royal Insti- 

 tution, 114 et seq.', his last 

 report on the Institution, 197; 

 causes of his departure from 

 England, 200 ; state of the funds 

 when he left the Institution, 

 201 ; original documents regard- 

 ing his service in the American 

 war, 405 et seq. 



SAVAGE, Mr., 155, 189 



Simonds, Miss, Rumford's mother, 



1 



Smith, Sir James, 259 

 Smith, Sydney, 260, 264, 265, 272, 



273, 277 

 Society for bettering the condition 



of the poor, 46, 118, 138, 147 

 Subscribers to lectures only, 193 ; 



ladies recommending subscribers, 



209 

 Subscription for Dr. Garnett's 



children, 179 



YOU 

 TANNING, Davy to lecture on, 186, 



190 



Theatre of Institution, 149, 152 

 Thompson, Benjamin, Ebenezer 



and James, ancestors of Count 



Rumford, 1 



UNDERWOOD, Mr., 105 



VENTILATION, 273 

 Verona, hospitals at, 42 

 Volta, experiments on animal elec- 

 .tricity, 43, 73, 74, 84, 156, 278 



WALKER, Rev. T., the father-in- 

 law of Rumford, 3, 7 



Webster, Mr., 138, 141, 148, 172, 

 185, 193, 195 



Wentworth, Governor, 4 



Winchelsea, Earl {of, first presi- 

 dent, 141 



Woburn, Massachusetts, the birth- 

 place of Rumford, 1,8 



Wollaston, Dr., 300, 303 



Workhouse at Munich, 31 



Workshops at the Institution, 198 



YOUNG, Dr. Thomas, 112; made 

 Professor, 188 ; his lectures, 

 191, 205, 240, 244 ; his preface 

 to the second volume of the 

 Journal of the Institution, 206, 

 246 ; his reply to the ' Edinburgh 

 Review,' 211 ; his early history, 

 223 et seq. ; made F.R.S., 225 ; 

 at Edinburgh, 226 ; ceased to 

 be a Quaker, 227 ; his Highland 

 tour, 228 ; at Gottingen, 229 ; 

 at Cambridge, 232 ; his dis- 

 coveries on light, 235 ; reviewpd 

 by Lord Brougham, 236 ; his 

 reply, 237 ; professor at the 

 Royal Institution, 238 ; his 

 editing of the Journals, 239 ; 

 his introductory lecture on 

 the objects of the Institution, 

 242 ; foreign secretary of the 

 Royal Society, 246 ; leaves the 

 Royal Institution, 246 ; elected 



