32 LOEWENFELD, Contributions to the History of Science. 



of Institutes. There will be much more room for 

 censure than in the former part, but I hope soon to 

 have your finest sentiments about it 



Dr. Kippis'-^ has undertaken to review the Reposi- 

 tory,'-" and thinks it will gratify the public and facilitate 

 the revival of the work if the principal writers will 

 allow him to give their names. I hope that you, who 

 are the principal writer, will not refuse yours. Your 

 pieces are unquestionably the most valuable in the 

 whole work, and cannot but do you great credit. 



My discourse on giving the Lord's Supper to 

 children'-' is now published. I will send you a copy by 

 my wife, who will be with me on Monday next, and 

 after staying about a week, will go to Leeds, whither 

 I should be very happy indeed to accompany her, but 

 I am afraid it will not be possible. Nothing would 

 give me more pleasure than to see you once more 

 just as I used to do. 



I have been of late more fortunate than ever in 

 my philosophical pursuits, and now intend to publish 

 an account of all I have done about air, in a separate 

 volume, immediately.-- 



The Dissenting Committee waver much about 

 their application to Parliament. Some of them have 

 been influenced by courtiers. What they will do I 

 cannot tell, nor do any of them know. This delay is 

 very painful.'"- 



-^ Andrew Kippis (1725 — 1795), Nonconformist, divine, and bio- 

 grapher. Prepared pari of ' Biographia Britannica.' 



-'^ 'The Theological Repository,' consisting of original essays, hints, 

 queiies, etc., calculated to promote religious knowledge. Three volumes. 



- "^ Address to Protestant Dissenters on the subject of ' Giving the Lord's 

 Supper to Children.' (1773.) 



" ® ' Experiments and Observ ilions on Different Kinds of Air. ' London, 

 1774. It is often erroneously stated (by Thorpe, Kahlbaum, etc.) that the 

 volume was only published in 1775. It was reprinted in the latter year. 



-* Not before 1779 an Act was passed permitting the dissenting 

 ministers to pieacli, provided they made a declaration of belief in the 

 Scriptures as containing the revealed will of God. 



