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On reaching Geneva, in August, I read my memoir 

 in the presence of Professor Pictet, De Saussure, and 

 various other persons, and at the same time repeated 

 some of my experiments with the thermoscope. 



As soon as I reached Paris, in the latter part of Oc- 

 tober, I had my memoir copied (by Mr. Cadel, of Glas- 

 gow, who was then in Paris), and sent it, in the middle 

 of December, to London by the younger Mr. Living- 

 ston, who was kind enough to deliver it in person to 

 Sir Joseph Banks on the 2jd of December. As the 

 Christmas recess of the Royal Society begins just after 

 this time, my memoir could not be read in a public 

 meeting of the Society until the jd of February. 



The 6th of June there were sent to me from Lon- 

 don (through the elder Mr. Livingston, Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary of the United States of North America at 

 Paris) two copies of my memoir, published by order 

 of the Royal Society. At the same time I received a 

 letter from Mr. Davy, Professor of Chemistry at the 

 Royal Institution, in which he informed me that Mr. 

 Leslie had, a short time previously, published a me- 

 moir on heat, and that in it he had described various 

 experiments which bore a resemblance to some which I 

 had performed. 



The 2d of June I received at Paris, from M. Ber- 

 tholet, Mr. Leslie's book, which was sent to me by 

 Sir Joseph Banks. M. Bertholet had at the same time 

 received from England a copy of the work, which was 

 sent to him by one of his friends there. 



As I had, only a short time before, occupied the 

 attention of the National Institute with an account 

 of my recent researches and discoveries,* the appear- 



* Between the 1 9th of March and the yth of May, 1804, 1 presented to the Na- 



