Index. 



679 



Germaine, Lord George, 103 foil., 115, 120, 666 



foil. 



Georgia, Thompson Secretary of, 102, 106. 

 Gerrish, Colonel, 84. 

 Gibbon, Edward, 152 foil. 

 Green, William and Eleonora, 325-327. 

 Grenville, Lord, letter from, 337, 338 ; letter to, 



337- 

 Guizot's account of Mine. Lavoisier de Rum- 



ford, 574/tf//. 

 Gunpowder, experiments on, 51, 67, 82, 109, 123. 



HARE, Dr. Robert, 268. 



Harvard College and the Rumford Medal, 265 : 



Rumford Professorship in, 635-638. 

 Heat, 241 foil., 617 ; its propagation in fluids, 



Heriot's Hospital, 446. 



Hertuch, F. I., 455. 



Horsford, Eben N., Rumford Professor, 640. 



Horstmann, G. H., letter from, 651. 



-.Huntington, L. I., 129 foil. 



INDIAN pudding, how to be eaten, 200. 

 Instrument-makers, 410. 



JACKSON, Dr. James, letter from, 446. 

 Jackson, William, 662. 

 Johnston, John, n. 

 Joly, A., letter from, 453. 



KING, Rufus, 350; letters from, 351, 352, 354, 

 355. 357 : letters to, 353, 355, 356, 358. 



.LAURENS, Henry, 118, 152. 

 Lavoisier, Mme. See RUMFORD. 

 Leroy, Colonel, 584. 

 Leslie, General Alexander, letters from and to, 



667-669, 673. 

 Light and heat, medal given for discoveries in 



regard to, 241 foil. 

 Long Island, i^foll.. 

 Loyalists, American, 55 foil., 112, 122, 148, 290. 



MCHENRY, James, letters to, 352, 359. 



Mannheim, 168, 169. 



Massachusetts Historical Society, Rumford 



chosen member of the, 346. 

 Mathias, T. J., 235. 

 Mendicity, 175 fo'l. 

 Munich, 167 foil., 272 foil., 453 foil., 536, 537, 



540, 541, 569 _/;//., 651. 



NAVAL artillery, 109. 



Nogarola, Countess, 301 foil., 536, 548, 549, 



569, 570, 612, 650 ; her death, 532. 

 Nowel, Miss Elizabeth, 661, 665. 



ORDER, Rumford's love of, 603, 620. 



PALMERSTON, Lord and Lady, 226, 229, 233, 

 331, 524, 531, 535 ; their deaths, 525, 527, 



54- 



Palmerston, the late Lord, 524. 



Paris, 539 foil. 



Parker, Daniel, 607, 623, 634, 635. 



Parker, Ren. Samuel, letter to, 661. 



Parkman, Elias, 661. 



Parkman, Samuel, 25. 



Parsons, Chief-Justice Theophilus, anecdote of, 

 238. 



Pauperism, 170 foil. 



Pearson, Eliphalet, letter from, 254; letter to, 

 256. 



Pennicook, 287, 659. 



Perkins, William Lee, 662. 



Pickering, Colonel, letter to, 351. 



Pictet, A., 423, 469, 537 ; his account of Rum- 

 ford, 6 foil-, 91, 102, 123, 129, 146, 154, 155, 

 157- 348, 360, 363, H26, 445, 650. 



Pierce, Josiah, 6 foil., 366 ; letter to, 278 ; his 

 death, 374, 512. 



Pierce, Mrs. Ruth (Simonds Thompson), Rum- 

 ford's mother, 5 foil , 45, 96, 413, 511, 512, 

 552, 657-659 : her son's allusions and gifts to, 

 from Europe, 209, 217, 219, 278, 596 foil. ; an 

 order from, 280 ; letter from, -562 ;, letters to, 

 342, 365, 598, 599, 659, 660 ; her death, n, 599. 



Portsmouth, 46 foil. 



Preble, Henry, 607. 



Prim%, Rev. Ebenezer, 138. 



RENWICK, Professor James, viii. 



Rolfe, Colonel Benjamin, 42, 43. 



Rolfe, Paul, 43, 643 ; the settlement of his 

 mother's estate, 285, 341, 373; his death, 

 647 ; his estate, 648. 



Royal Institution of Great Britain, 358, 361, 

 53. 535, 618 ; its foundation by Rumford, and 

 subsequent progress, n%foll. 



Royal Society, 230, 235, 242 foil. : Thompson 

 elected a member, 108. 



Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count For a. 

 synopsis of the events of his life see the Con- 

 tents prefixed to this volume. His writings : 

 papers in the Philosophical Transactions, 169 ; 

 account of the establishment for the poor at 

 Munich, ijo/oH. " Fundamental Principles 

 on which General Establishments for the Re- 

 lief of the Poor may be formed," 189 foil. ; 

 " Essay on the Selection and Preparation of 

 Food," 191 ; other writings, 218, 219, 231, 232, 

 237, 238 ; essays published in Boston, 293 ; 

 " Proposals " for forming the Royal Institu- 

 tion, 385 foil. ; "Prospectus :> of the Royal 

 Institution, 397 ; " Essay on the Propagation 

 of Heat in Fluids," 458 foil. ; " Account of 

 several New Experiments, with Remarks re- 

 specting Chemical Affinity," 469; " Essay on 



