72 Biographical Notice of Alexander Volta. 
the different forms given to the voltaic apparatus by Volta 
himself, by Wollaston,* Pepys, Children, Accum, &c. ; the 
this faculty or upon conductibility ; and lastly in adverting 
to the researches of Prof. A. De La Rive upon the electric 
currents disseminated in fluids, and the experiments in which 
he has laid hold of several remarkable analogies between 
‘Inore powerful mode of producing heat and light, than the 
ancient, but it has given birth to a new class of phenomena, 
of a kind, then quite unknown to science, 
Philosophers remarked not long after Volta had put the 
pile into their hands, that conductors placed between the 
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ly entitl tioned inthis list.—Ep. 
