280 Scientific Intelligence. 
his recent elaborate work on se pao (tome 1, page 46) falls into the 
same mistake.* Lardner in his Lectu es even goes so far as to make an 
entsisti defense of Davy from the imputation that he owed this ac- 
ssion to his reputation to the fortuitous circumstance of his having 
to the large battery of the Royal Institution. But he does not 
eorrect the error. A few of our minor authors (Bakewell for instance) 
seem to have read the Bakerian Lecture for themselves ; anda - rm rench 
stsTiors, as Becquerel and Figuier, have se given Davy his 
e extent to which this error has been copied shows with whos ser- 
num rs reqs 1te, J. P. 
r, N.Y, = 26th, 1859. 
vani had fos eleven years been ongininetici in an elaborate vedosrol on ani- 
mal electricity, in which he used frogs legs as sensitiv 
The error has been continued from the —. of a careful distinction be- 
tween the real discoveri lvani of Volta. Galvani was an 
anatomist and a ace, rete he sally pte the existence of e 
trical currents in living or recently dead an imals, and he justly csr 
the convulsions of the frogs prsarin when made without a metallic are—by 
co the exterior mucous with the lotisioe nervous aces 
* The w ot M.D a Bre roa ple & mend ndentes en 
en omen ¢ avec couples metalliques mobiles, forme so uelle fut icueels 
deux cents couples ed Home sagem Royale a de Londres, au a be 
es age He 
eo construct 
en by A. Dela Rive, but if for “ 
description a) Sites bests to the great 
