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 of which we are now possessed. The conducting 



power of the fluids concerned in the galvanic appa- 

 ratus should be carefully examined, and the rela- 

 tion of their chemical action to their conducting 

 power should be ascertained. But it is unnecessary 

 to enlarge upon these topics : the rapid succession 

 of discoveries which have been made in this de- 

 partment of science, and the very general atten- 

 tion which it has obtained from the first philoso- 

 phers of the age, afford every reason to expect, 

 that the farther investigation of it will be followed 

 by no less success than that which has hitherto at- 

 tended its progress. 



BESIDES the references which have been made 

 in the course of the essay, the following works 

 and papers deserve to be noticed, either as pre- 

 senting a correct view of the gradual progress of 

 the science, or as containing an abstract of the 

 hypotheses that have been brought forwards at 

 different times. 



PfafTs Dissertation on Animal Electricity, 

 1793. 



Monro on Animal Electricity, 1793. 



Aldini on Animal Electricity, 1794. 



Cavallo on Electricity, vol. iii. 1795. 



Cuvier's Report, Journ. de Phys. Iii, 1801. 



Hachette's Report, Journ. Poly tech. iv.1801. 



