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give you here the very barest outline of it, so that the names 

 of these great chemists may not be quite unfamiliar when 

 you meet with them in other books. 



Chief Works consulted. 'Three Papers on Factitious Air,' by 

 Cavendish 'Phil. Trans.,' 1766.; Brande's 'Chemistry;' Hoefer's 

 * Histoire de la Chimie ;' Cuvier, 'Histoire des Sciences Naturelles;' 

 Huxley, ' On Priestley ' 'Macmillan's Magazine,' 1874; Priestley, 'On 

 Different Kinds of Air,' 1774; Thomson's 'Hist, of Royal Society;' 

 Scheele's 'Chemical Experiments on Air and Fire,' translated 1780; 

 Miller's 'Elements of Chemistry;' Lavoisier's Elements of Chemis- 

 try,' translated by Kerr, 1790. 



