Conut Bumford bequeathed to Harvard University the funds
for endowing its professorship of the Application of Scienw to the
Art of Living, and instituted a prize to he awai-ded by the Ameri-
can Academy of Sciences, for the most important discoveries and
improvements relating to heat and light. In 1804 he married the
widow of the celebrated chemist Lavoisier, and with her retired
to tlie villa of Auteuil, the reddence of her former hustand, where
he died in 1814.
