240 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. FT. in. 



lead for many years, until new discoveries in England, which 

 we shall mention by-and-by, made another great advance. 

 When you are able to read larger works upon the history of 

 chemistry you will find how very interesting the period was 

 of which we have been speaking. I have only been able to 

 give you here the very barest outline of it, so that the names 

 of these great chemists may not be quite unfamiliar when 

 you meet with them in other books. 



Chief Works consulted. 'Three Papers on Factitious Air,' by 

 Cavendish 'Phil. Trans.,' 1766; Brande's 'Chemistry;' Hoefer's 

 ' Histoire de la Chimie ;' Cuvier, ' Histoire des Sciences Naturelles ; ' 

 Huxley, 'On Priestley' 'Macmillan's Magazine,' 1874; Priestley, 'On 

 Different Kinds of Air,' 1774 ; Thomson's 'Hist, of Royal Society;' 

 Scheele's ' Chemical Experiments on Air and Fire,' translated 1 780 ; 

 Miller's ' Elements of Chemistry ; ' Lavoisier's ' Elements of Chemis- 

 try,' translated by Kerr, 1790. 



