28t Astronomy-. 



application of the theory of Galvanism to uuiveroal ve- 

 getation. 



Experiments, which have been rhade conformable to the 

 theory of M. de Vas?alli-Eandi, viz. that thcie isa deve- 

 lopment of Galvanism as often as there is a change' of 

 capacity; or a chemical mutation in bodies, and to those of 

 Br. Gardmi, of the professors Vassalli-Eandi and Balbis, 

 who have obtained Galvanic effects from plants by applying 

 conductors to the branches and tlie roots ; the experiments 

 also which arc conformable to those of professor Rossij 

 who has formed with success Galvanic piles w ith vegetables, 

 particularly vith sensitive plants and with aninialsj especi- 

 ally the cold-blooded, without the intervention of any me- 

 tal ; those experiments, with several others made by the 

 academicians of Turin, have induced some philosophers to 

 suspect that the Galvanic fluid is one of the con-iponent 

 parts of a natural fluid spread through all bodies in nature, 

 which is put into motion by the chen;ieal action of sub- 

 stances in a state of decomposition, and that it concurs with 

 the other components of the natural fluid to the formatioii 

 and preservation of all bodies. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Tahle vf the right Ascensw?) and Detlinatmi of Ceres, 

 ■ Fal/as, and Juno, jhr January 1S06. 



Pallas is too low to be seen. 



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