INDEX. 



J^ CID and alkali produced by galvanism, 29, 60. 

 Acid, muriatic, said to be generated by galvanism, 60. 

 Affinity, chemical, how connected with electricity, 72, 131, 



139. 

 Aldini's experiments on muscular contraction, 51. 



produces contractions without metals, 51 . 



Alkalies, fixed, decomposition of, 74. 

 Ammonia, attempts made to decompose, 78. 



, Gay-Lussac and Thenard's experiments on, 82. 



Animal arc, remarks on, 18. 



electricity, galvanism so named, 1, 5, 13, 52. 



, modification of common electricity, 9, 



11, 43. 



. pile formed by Lagrave, 52. 



Arborization of metals, experiments on, by Grotthus, 66. 



Battery, elementary, by Wollaston, described, 98. 



, galvanic, described, 92, 95, 99. 



Bennet's experiments, remarks on, 138. 



Berzelius's experiments on the decomposition of bodies, 59. 



i hypothesis of galvanism, 14-3. 



Bichat on the effects of galvanism upon the involuntary mus* 



cles, 50. 



Biot and Cuvier on the effect of the pile upon the air, 42. 

 Biot's observations on the size of the plates, 43. 



. on the theory of galvanism, 44, 147 



Bostock's observations on the action of the pile, 124. 

 Brande's observations on positive and negative bodies, 97- 

 Brugnatelli's experiments, 36. 

 Bucholtz's observations on metallic oxides, 65. 



Carlisle and Nicholson's experiments on the pile, 26. 

 Chemical affinity, how connected with electricity, 72, 131, 



139. 

 and electrical hypothesis of the pile compared, 



135. 

 effects of galvanism first noticed by Fabroni, 19. 



