X CONTENTS. 



Report on Animal Magnetism 



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



Report on the Hospitals i. 



Report on the Slaughter-Houses 1 ( 



Biographies of Cook and of Gresset 16 



Assembly of the Notables. Bailly is named First Deputy 

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

 ties of the Communes 16, 



Bailly becomes Mayor of Paris. Scarcity. Marat de- 

 clares himself inimical to the Mayor. Events of the 



6th of October 17 



A Glance at the Posthumous Memoir of Bailly 19 



Examination of Bailly 's Administration as Mayor 19 



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 



Bailly is called as a Witness in the Trial of ' 

 H 'is t own Tn' Before Tirw ' t e Re volutioi , nbunal. 

 His Condemnation to Death.-His ExecutionImag- 

 inary Details added by ill-informed Historians to what 



that odious and frightful Event already presented 225 



Portrait of Bailly. His Wife 25C 



HERSCHEL. 



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Personal History 



Chronological Table of the Memoirs of William Herschel 



Improvements in the Means of Observation 271 



Labours in Sidereal Astronomy 



