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in small quan- galvanic action, have hitherto exhibited but a small quantity 

 titles hitherto, ^j- ^^.jj . which has led persons to question, and even to deny, 

 the result^f these experiments. What has lately been done 

 by the experimental clubs of the Galvanic Society will leave 

 l|or. of water no doubt with regard to the product. Fifty, grammes, or 

 converted into jj^arlv an ounce and half of distilled water, have passed into 

 riatic acid, dis- the state of oxigenized muriatic acid^ and dissolved a gold 

 solved 27 in, yy^r^. ^f ^\^^. ientfth of about 0*07 of a metre, or 2k inches f 2 in. 

 p/ gold wire. ,. ^^ -, ^ i . , , • , ^ . , ,. 



7 Imes JLng.j, immersed in the cylinder, containing the dis- 

 tilled water, which had acquired a very sensible and even 

 strong smell of that acid, as well as u yellow colour, such as a 

 solution of gold exhibits. To these diifefent characters, easy 

 to distinguish^ were added those of the action of different 

 Precipitated by i^agents. The tincture of litmus was reddened powerfully ; 

 ^e,.^ the solution of nitrate of silver was speedily changeti, and a 



precipitate of muriate of silver thrown down. 



I can assure you, there is not the least doubt of the cer- 

 tainty of the results displayed by this conversion of distilled 

 water into oxigenized muriatic acid. 

 If the acid Even if the result oi the experiment were to be consi- 



were extricated dered as an extrication of the muriatic acid from the solu- 



from the salt . p , • i • i t i 



merely, still tion oi salt contained in the cylinder of the copper pole, a 



interesting. very interesting phenomenon would remain to be considered 

 in this product. This experiment therefore deserves parti- 

 cular attention ; and it is to be wished, that it was varied 

 and repeated in different ways. I doubt not but the result 

 will offer facts of considerable importance to the science of 

 natural philosophy. 



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New Bavarian -^ HE Bavarian Academy of Sciences at Munich, nc-o 

 Academy of cording to its new constitution, is to have a more extensive 

 field for its labours than any other in Europe. Under the 

 ^ direction of the ministiy, it is to have the immediate super- 



intendance of all the public seminaries of education in Ba- 

 varia, from-the universities down to the primary schools. It 

 will be composed of learned natives, and foreigners of cele- 

 brity invited by the government from other parts of Ger- 

 many. 



