no ON ELECTRO-CHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION. 



the experiments of Mr. Anderson, the methods which he 

 followed, and the explanations which he has subjoined, all 

 bear witness to the originality of his views; while the man- 

 ner .in which his experiments are executed and detailed is 

 ulike creditable to his ingenuity and skill. Still it is right, 

 that the merit of priority should be bestowed where it is 

 justly due ; and it is this consideration alone, that has in- 

 duced me to make the present communication. I will add, 

 that I do not at all regret, in this instance, the circumstance 

 of Mr. Anderson's being unacquainted with Mr. Murray's 

 experiments, since it has prompted him to institute inqui- 

 ries, which he has shown himself so well able to conduct, 

 and the results of which so satisfactorily confirm the conclu- 

 sion, at which Mr. Murray had arrived. 

 The theory of 1 shall conclude by observing, that the electrical law of 

 derethesup- induction, which Mr. Murray has pointed out, as affording^ 

 |iosiiion of any aj, explanation of the maimer in which these decompositions 

 d^trfc fluid* ^'"^ effected, renders it unnecessary to resort to the suppo- 

 onuectssary. sition of a conveyance of electric matter, in opposite cur- 

 rents, through the water and the wire, in the way whick 

 * Mr. Anderson has suggested. 



I am, sir. 



Your very obedient servant, 

 A. Z. 



III. 



Observations on some Phenomena of Electro-Chemical 

 Decomposition : by George John Singer, Lecturer 

 on Chemistry, and Natural Philosophy. 



S'jb«ct of ih(» ^^^ subject of the present paper occupied a consider- 

 p^per. able portion of my attention about two years since. The 



results of my observations have been detailed in roy public 

 lectures, but 1 have delayed their publication, till the pro- 

 gress of my inquiry should admit a systematic exposition 

 of its objects. The contents of a paper in the November 

 nuBibtr of this Journal, by Adam Anderson, Esq,, induc<8 



