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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno 1797. 



subjects in question, heat or light, which, in the opinion of the President and 

 Council of the Royal Society, shall be of sufficient importance to deserve this pre- 

 mium; in that case, it is my desire that the premium may not be given, but that 

 the value of it may be reserved, and being laid out in the purchase of additional 

 stock in the English funds, may be employed to augment the capital of this pre- 

 mium; and that the interest of the same by which the capital may, from time to 

 time, be so augmented, may regularly be given in money with the 2 medals, and 

 as an addition to the original premium at each such succeeding adjudication of it. 

 And it is further my particular request, that those additions to the value of the pre- 

 mium, arising from its occasional non-adjudications, may be suffered to increase 

 without limitation. 



" With the highest respect for the r. s. of London, and the most earnest wishes 

 for their success in their labours for the good of mankind, I have the honour to be, &c. 

 London, \1th of July, 179^. (signed) " Rumford." 



To Sir J. Banks, Bart., k.b., p.r.s. of London. 



The Society hereupon resolved, that they accept of the donation, and accede to 

 the conditions annexed to it by the Count; and also directed that a letter be written 

 to the Count, acquainting him of this acceptance; returning him thanks for the 

 liberal donation, and assuring him that the conditions annexed to it will be strictly 

 adhered to. 



Meteorological Journal, kept at the apartments of the R. S., for the Year 17 Q6. 

 By order of the President and Council, p. 21 9. 



• The quicksilver in the basin of the barometer is 81 feet above the level of low water spring tides at 

 Somerset-house. 



