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public sitting of the National Institute on the 6th 

 Messidor (June 26, 1804), I presented the memoir 

 which follows.* As it has already been printed (in 

 the Moniteur of the 9th Messidor, or the 29th of June, 

 1804), I may be allowed to introduce it into this col- 

 lection. The case is otherwise with the five other me- 

 moirs which I presented to the first class of the Insti- 

 tute; for as they will be embodied in the Me'moires 

 of the Class it would not be proper for me to publish 

 them earlier. 



To complete this historical review, I must, in addi- 

 tion, say a word or two on my attempts to perfect the 

 application of heat to the arts and to all sorts of domes- 

 tic purposes. Among the fifteen Essays which I have 

 published in three octavo volumes are no less than 

 eight which treat of the use of heat. They are as fol- 

 lows : 



Essay IV. Of Chimney Fireplaces ; VI. On the 

 Management of Fire and Economy of Fuel ; X. Of 

 Kitchen Fireplaces; XII. Of the Salubrity of Warm 

 Rooms in Winter ; XIII. Of the Salubrity of Warm 

 Baths, and the Mode of their Preparation ; XIV. Of 

 the Management of Fire in Closed Fireplaces ; XV. 

 Of the Use of Steam as a Vehicle for transporting 

 Heat. 



* See page 166. 



[This paper is translated from the German, as it appears in Vol. IV. 

 of Rumford's Kleina Schriften.] 



