X CONTENTS. 



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Report on Animal Magnetism 127 



Election of Bailly into the Academy of Inscriptions. . . . 155 



Report on the Hospitals 157 



Report on the Slaughter-Houses 165 



Biographies of Cook and of Gresset 167 



Assembly of the Notables. Bailly is named First Deputy 

 of Paris ; and soon after Dean or Senior of the Depu 

 ties of the Communes 169 



Bailly becomes Mayor of Paris. Scarcity. Marat de 

 clares himself inimical to the Mayor. Events of the 



6th of October 1 79 



A Glance at the Posthumous Memoir of Bailly 193 



Examination of Bailly s Administration as Mayor 195 



The King s Flight. Events on the Champ de Mars 206 



Bailly quits the Mayoralty the 12th of November, 1791. 

 The Eschevins. Examination of the Reproaches 



that might be addressed to the Mayor 211 



Bailly s Journey from Paris to Nantes, and then from 

 Nantes to Melun. His Arrest in this last Town. He 



is transferred to Paris 217 



Bailly is called as a Witness in the Trial of the Queen. 

 His own Trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal. 

 His Condemnation to Death. His Execution. Imag 

 inary Details added by ill-informed Historians to what 



that odious and frightful Event already presented 225 



Portrait of Bailly. His Wife 250 



HERSCHEL. 



Personal History 258 



Chronological Table of the Memoirs of William Herschel 266 



Improvements in the Means of Observation 271 



Labours in Sidereal Astronomy 285 



