A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



KIRWAN, R. See vol. iv., p. 3 ff. 



An Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids, 

 London, 1789. This is interesting, written as it was just 

 before Lavoisier's Elements treated the same subject 

 from the stand-point of the anti-phlogistic chemists. 



KLEIST, DEAN VON. See vol. ii., p. 280. 



In the Danzick Memoirs, vol. i. contains the de- 

 scription given by Von Kleist of his discovery of the 

 Leyden jar. A translation is given also in Priestley's 

 History of Electricity. 



LAVOISIER, ANTOINE LAURENT. See vol. iv., p. 33. 



Traite elementaire de chimie, Paris, 1774, trans, as 

 Elements of Chemistry, by Robert Kerr, London and 

 Edinburgh, 1790. 

 LISTER, JOSEPH JACKSON. See vol. iv., p. 113. 



On Some Properties in Achromatic Object Glasses 

 Applicable to the Improvement of the Microscope, in 

 Phil. Trans, for 1830. 



MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK-. See vol. iii., p. 45. 



" On the Motions and Collisions of Perfectly Elastic 

 Spheres " in Philosophical Magazine for January and 

 July, 1860. The Scientific Papers of J. Clerk- Maxivell, 

 edited by W. D. Nevin (2 vols.), vol. i., pp. 372-374, 

 Cambridge, 1896. This is a reprint of Maxwell's prize 

 paper of 1859. 

 MAYER, DR. JULIUS ROBERT. See vol. iii., p. 259. 



The Forces of Inorganic Nature, 1842. This is Mayer's 

 statement of the conservation of energy. 

 MENDELEEFF, DMITRI IVANOVITCH. See vol. iv., p. 68. 



Principles of Chemistry, 2 vols., London, 1868-1870. 

 (There have been several subsequent editions.) 



OERSTED, HANS CHRISTIAN. See vol. iii., p. 236. 



Experiments with the Effects of the Electric Current on 

 the Magnetic Needle, published at Berlin, 1816. 



PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. See vol. iv., pp. 20, 36. 



Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of 

 Air, 3 vols., Birmingham, 1790. History of Electricity, 

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