COLLECTION OF MSMOIRS. »y'7 



XVIII. 



-Notice of a ColleBion of Memoirs which have lalefj/ appeared at 

 Paris, being Part of a Work on ivhich the celebrated Lavoifur 

 vas employed till the lamented Clofe of his Life ; -juith a 

 Traiijlation of that Memoir^ in which he claims the modern 

 Theory of Cliemifiry as his own exclufive Difcoverj/. Received 

 from Mr. W. A. Cadell, at Paris. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 

 SIR, Paris, Oa. 27, 1805. 



1 HAVE iranflated t!ie two following paflages (pages 4 and 5) See introduifl?/ry 



from a work which has lately appeared in two volumes oflavo, 



entitled Memoires de Chlmie. They will prove interefting to 



the readers of your Journal. The firft is the notice prefixed 



to the work by Madame Lavoifier, (now countefsof Rumford) 



it is written with the eloquence of real feeling, and I refer to 



it for an account of tlie nature of the work ; the fecon.d proves 



completely that the new theory of chemiftry is due to M. La- 



vofier alone. I alfo fend you the titles of the papers of which 



the work iscorapofed. I am. 



Your very liumble fervant, 



W. A. CADELL. 



CONTENTS OF THE TWO VOLUMES. 



Paut. I. — General Views on Caloric: its EffeBs ; the Manner of 

 meafuring it, and the Formation of Liquids and Fluids. 



1ft mem. on caloric, by Lavoifer. Mem. Ac. des Sci.1777. Contents of the 



2. On caloric, and the means of meafuring its effeas. j6.1780. "j"^" Lavoifie-, 

 Lavois. et Laplace, 



3. Supplement to the preceding. Lavois. and Laplace. 



4. On fome of the principal phenomena of chemiftry. — 

 Seguin. Soc, Philom. 1790. 



5. On the natural zero. Seguin. Annal, de Chim. 1790, 



6. On the effects of heat in dilating metals and glafs, &c. 

 Laplace and Lavoifier. 



7. On the paflage of folids to a ftate of liquidity by means 

 of heat. Lavoifier. 



8. On the action of heat on liquids from their freezing point 

 to that of their vaporization, Lavoifier. 



On 



