APPENDIX, No. LII. Apparatus of the Rum ford Professorship. No. LII. - See p. 402. THE APPARATUS OF THE RUMFORD PROFESSORSHIP. The apparatus belonging to the Rumford Professorship comprises a large number of machines and models for illustrating the principles and practice of the useful arts. Among these, may be enumerated a high-pressure steam-engine, capable of operating with the power of one horse; a working model of the condensing engine; models of three different kinds of water-wheels; complete operating models of cotton-spinning machinery and the power-loom; a fine slide-rest lathe; an operating model of the last and block machine; a model of a railway, locomotive engine, and cars; a large and very perfect air-pump, with pneumatic apparatus complete; a complete set of mechanical powers; a model of chronometer and common watch and clock escapements; a large number of models, in plaster, of buildings and parts of architectural structures. During the lectures, many of the machines and working models are put in actual operation by the power of the steam-engine. Loss to the College LOSS TO THE COLLEGE FROM LEGISLATIVE ACTS IN RELA- The present value of an annuity of $666-66, at six from legis- per cent. compound interest for 20 years, is lative acts. The present value of an annuity of $ 666-66, to commence at the end of 20 years, and to continue for ever, is Besides the above annuities, which were the peculiar estate of the College, it is also a sufferer, in common with the other proprietors of Charles River Bridge, by the effect of these acts of the legislature. In 1823, before the intention of the legislature to interfere with the rights of those proprietors was developed, shares in that bridge sold readily at $2,000. Two of those shares $8,133-20 2,744-22 belonged to the College; the confidence in the faith of the Commonwealth, rendered it not only a safe but a desirable investment at that rate. From the annihilation of Charles River Bridge as a productive estate, by the legislative acts above mentioned, the College therefore lost, in 1835, $4,000; which will, at the end of 20 years, at six per cent. compound interest, amount to an actual loss of So that the total loss to the College, at the end of 20 years, will be $24,523-74 $35,401-16 if the legislature should continue to disregard, as it has hitherto done, all applications for indemnity for the damage sustained by the proprietors of the estate in Charles River Bridge. APPENDIX, Loss to the College from legislative acts. "Sir, During my stay at Naples, I was fortunate enough to procure the account of the pictures, statues, &c., found among the ruins of Herculaneum, and published a few years since by order and at the expense of the King. This work has been with eagerness sought after by the most respectable literary societies in Europe, and, I trust, will not be deemed unworthy a place in the Library of Harvard College. I have sent with it a complete set of views, sections, and elevations, of all the remaining monuments of Roman grandeur, now seen in and about the city of Rome. This work is executed with an elegance and exactness to satisfy the most curious observer. Unfortunately for my countrymen, it is written in a language but little attended to in America, but I hope it may incite some one to dip, at least, into the rudiments of that tongue, generally allowed to be the most elegant now spoken, and, that I may pass another encomium, formed upon the ruins of that, so generally cultivated, and, I flatter myself, as well understood in my own, as perhaps any country upon the globe. Palmer. APPENDIX, No. LIV. Letter of "Present them, Sir, as a token of my gratitude to Alma Mater, and be assured that I shall embrace every occasion to prove that I am not the least worthy of her sons. I have requested my friend, Mr. Pepperell, to be the bearer of this, and to assure you, that I am, with the greatest respect, "Your most obliged and most humble servant, Letter of "Dear Sir, "Having been informed some time since, that the late Professor Ebeling, of Hamburgh, had left a very extensive and valuable library, containing many volumes, maps, and charts, peculiarly adapted to be useful in the United States, I determined upon purchasing it, provided it could be obtained at a fair price, considering its intrinsic value, and to present it to the University at Cambridge, as a mark of the great esteem I feel for those who compose the government of that seminary, and of veneration for its great antiquity and usefulness. "You will perceive by the inclosed letters and copies, that this object has been effected, and that orders have been given for the shipment to the United States, for account of the University. "I have to request, that your Corporation will be pleased to accept this library, with my best wishes that it may be found *These letters state, that the part of the library, which relates to America, contains from 3,000 to 3,500 volumes; and that the sum given for the whole collection, including charges, was about $6,500. conducive to the great end we all have in view, the extension of APPENDIX, knowledge in our country. "I am, dear Sir, with respect, 66 Your obedient servant, "ISRAEL THORNDIKE. "Rev. J. T. Kirkland, D. D." No. LV. Letter of LETTER OF THE REV. FRANCIS PARKMAN, D. D., OFFERING Boston, April 26th, 1840. Letter of the Rev. Francis "To the Honorable and Reverend the Corporation of Harvard Parkman, University. "Gentlemen, "The present condition and prospects of the Theological School in Cambridge, having recently excited much solicitude among its friends, and learning that they are now the immediate subjects of consideration with your Honorable Board, I beg leave to submit the following proposal. "My father, the late Samuel Parkman, Esq., did, in the year 1816, establish a Professorship of Theology in the University, which foundation was gratefully accepted by the Corporation, and the necessary documents, conveyances, &c., were placed in their hands. But, by a series of circumstances, that donation, valued at the time and accepted as equivalent to twenty thousand dollars, became greatly diminished, and is now valued with the interest accumulated, in the books of the Treasurer, at somewhat less than five thousand dollars. "Regretting, as I deeply do, the circumstances by which the wishes of my honored father failed of their accomplishment, and cherishing a deep and filial interest in the prosperity of the Theological School, as of vital importance to our churches and to the community, I propose to add five thousand dollars to my father's donation, provided that, with that and other smaller sums at the disposal of the Corporation for the same purpose, it shall be accepted D. D. No. LVI. APPENDIX, as the foundation of a Professorship of Theology within the Theological School at the University; and provided that, agreeably to the original purpose of the Corporation in accepting my late father's gift, it shall be called the Parkman Professorship. Letter of the Rev. Francis "As my simple object is to meet, in some measure, the immediate, pressing wants of the Theological School, I have no wish to add any other condition except that, should the Corporation in their wisdom see fit to accept this proposal, the Professorship shall be immediately established, and that provision shall be made for the constant and uninterrupted discharge of its duties; so that the intentions of the gift may be fully carried into effect, or the gift itself revert to the donor. "I am, gentlemen, with sentiments of the highest respect and consideration, your obedient servant, Whereupon the Corporation "FRANCIS PARKMAN." "Voted, That the gift offered in this letter be accepted on the terms therein proposed. "Voted, That the Corporation, in accepting this token of the interest of the Rev. Dr. Parkman in the prosperity of Harvard College, and of the Theological School connected with it, express their sensibility at the evidence of a spirit of liberality so coincident with that which distinguished his father toward this institution, for which his memory has so long been the object of its recorded gratitude." Extract from the will of Henry Lie now. No. LVII.. See p. 420. EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF HENRY LIENOW. "The other moiety, or half part of the residue and remainder of my said estate, I give, devise, and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College and to their successors for ever; but in trust, nevertheless, for the sole use and behoof of the Divinity or Theological School attached to said College, to be appropriated in such way as will best promote the interest of said School and the promulgation of liberal Christianity. It being my will, that the income and interest only of said fund shall be used for the purpose aforesaid, the capital to remain entire. And I hereby submit the said devise, in other respects, entirely to the control of the said |