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not been able to recover, Rumford showed to Pictet, 

 who describes them as filled with the most flattering 

 expressions of esteem and gratitude. On his return to 

 London the Count superintended the changes which he 

 had before advised in the arrangements and kitchen 

 economy of the Foundling Hospital in London, and 

 deposited in the Bureau of Agriculture many ingenious 

 models of useful machines. The Annual Register for 

 1798* thought of importance enough for insertion in 

 its pages " An Account of the Kitchen fitted up at 

 the Foundling Hospital under the Direction of his 

 Excellency Count Rumford." 



In connection with the visit he was making in Eng- 

 land, the Count had sent for his daughter to come from 

 America and meet him there. 



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