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of whom were ladies ; and four hundred and thirteen 

 annual subscribers, one hundred and three of whom 

 were ladies ; the fee being raised to three guineas. 



At a meeting of the managers, held in the first 

 month of the charter organization, some of the detailed 

 subjects of inquiry and improvements which were speci- 

 fied in Count Rumford's schedule already given, and a 

 few others, were assigned to committees for investiga- 

 tion, beginning with the processes for " making bread," 

 and ending with those "for procuring iron from its ores." 



At the same meeting Count Rumford was requested 

 to take measures for, and to superintend, the publication 

 of the journals of the. Institution, employing such assist- 

 ance as he might need. No private advertisements 

 were to be published with the journals, and a printing- 

 press was to be established as soon as possible in the 

 Institution. The first number of the journals appeared 

 April 5, 1800. They were to be published, if possi- 

 ble, at intervals of two weeks, and were to be adapted 

 to a wide circulation, at a cost, when of eight pages, of 

 threepence, and when of sixteen pages sixpence, a part. 

 The preface of the first bound volume, completed in 

 1802, informs us that the first three sheets of it were 

 published under Count Rumford's direction. They 

 contain reports of the meetings of the managers of the 

 Institution, providing for committees and professors, 

 assigning subjects for scientific investigation, the art 

 of making bread being the first of them, an account 

 of the edifice and its arrangements then in progress, and 

 a report made to the managers, May 25, 1801, by 

 Rumford, on the progress and hopeful prospects of the 

 Institution. The arrangements, conveniences, and con- 

 trivances described in this report all indicate the in- 



