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of His Time Composition of Water A Millionaire His Evening 

 Walk Battersea Rise House Stories about Cavendish Cavendish 

 and the Doctrine of Stahl Atmospheric Gases Discovery of 

 Hydrogen His Library His Death and Burial His Honours 

 Thomson, Lodge, Rayleigh, and Strutt on Cavendish Galileo and 

 the Church ........ 30 



PRIESTLEY 



Birth and Parentage Schooldays Became a Calvinistic Minister 

 Heterodoxy Tutor at a Dissenting Academy Marriage A 

 History of Electricity F.R.S. LL.D. Pneumatic Chemistry 

 Copley Medal Appointed Librarian to Lord Shelburne Visited 

 France, Germany, and Holland Unitarian Minister in Birmingham 

 America and the War of Independence French Revolution 

 Writings and Speeches against the Established Church Burke and 

 Priestley Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Tom 

 Paine's Rights of Man Mackintosh's Vindicice Gallice His Letters to 

 Mr Burke Burning of Chapels and Priestley's House " Priestley 

 Riots" Priestley Arrived in London Manuscripts Destroyed 

 Gillray's Cartoon Pictures in Musee Wiertz, Brussels Carlyle on 

 the Priestley Riots Elected a Member of the French Assemblee 

 Nationale Emigrated to America Received 2000 Compensation 

 Posthumous Honours His Books Death and Burial Discoverer 

 of Oxygen Phlogistic Theory Proved Air to be a Mixture C0 2 

 and other Gases Ammonia Gas Prejudiced by Stahl's Doctrine . 44 



LINN^US 



Birth and Parentage His Father's Garden School at Wexico Entered 

 the University of Lund Studied under Stobosus University of 

 Upsala His Poverty Celsius and Linnaeus His Classification 

 The " Artificial System" The " Natural System " of De Candolle 

 Binomial System of Nomenclature Systema Natures Fixity of 

 Species Rousseau on Botany Lectureship at Upsala Explored 

 in Lapland His Hardships Baron Reuterholm Visited Holland 

 M.D. of Leyden Introduced to Boerhaave, Burmann, and Cliffort 



Fundamenta Botanica and Bibliotheca Botanica Visited England 



Genera Plantarum Homology Philosophia Botanica Floral Clock 

 Financial Difficulties Hughes and Wireless Telegraphy His 

 Marriage Elected President of the Royal Academy of Sweden 

 Professorship at Upsala Rector of Same Honours Death . 62 



