ng <?OLtEeTroN or memoirs. 



Contents of the 9'. Oil the combination of heat with different evaporable 

 memoirs anan. fubftances and the formation of feveral fluids. Lavoifier. Mem. 

 *" ' Ac. Sci. 1777. 



10. On the eledriclly that is abforbed by bodies that pafs (o 

 the ftate of Vapour. Luvoijier and LuplaCe. M. A. S. 1781. 



11. On the a6tion of heat on feme aerial fluids from the 

 freezing to the boiling point. GUyton and Duveriiois. 



12. On fome fubftances which are conltantly in the ftate of 

 aerial fluid at the ordinary temperature and preflure of the 

 atmofphere. Lavoifier, 



\'i. Memoir on fome liqnids which can be obtained in an 

 aerial form at a degree of heat a little above the mean tempe- 

 rature of the earth. M. A. S. 1777. 



14. General views concerning the formation and conftitu- 

 tion of the atmofphere. 



15. On the caufe of fome of the principal phenomena of 

 meteorology. 



Part II. On the Decompofition of adnofpheric Air, its Analyfis 

 and the Conterfion of its Principles into the fo lid or liquid 

 Slate. 



Section I. On the Decompofition of Air hy metalic Suhfiances 

 and the Formation of Oxids, 



1. Memoir on the adion of mercury upon atmofpheric air. 

 Lavoifier. In pars, in M. A. S. 1777, p. 186. 



2. On the decompofition of atmofpheric air by the oxida- 

 tion of lead and tin performed by means of a burning glafs 

 under a glafs receiver. Lavuifier, Opufc. Chim. chap. 6. pub. 

 in 1773. 



3. On the oxidation of tin in clofe veflels, &c. Lavoifien 

 Read in 177 4-. 



4. On the decompofition of atmorpheric air by iron. Lavois, 



5. Hiftorical details on the caufe of the augmentation of 

 weight that metals acquire when heated with contact of air. 

 Lavoifier. ]t is the paper of which I fend you the tranflatlon. 



Seciton II. on the Decompofition of Air by fimpk inflammable 

 Subjlarices uhichfonn Acids by their Combuftion. 

 1. Memoir on the decom petition of air by phofphorus, and 

 the formation of phofphoric acid. Lu-coifur. Opufc. Chim. 



2. Sup- 



