CONTENTS 



OF TH,E 



THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME. 



*• THE Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phenomena of Che* 

 mical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the 

 Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and the Exhibition of 

 the new Substances which constitute their Bases; and on 

 the general Nature of alkaline Bodies. By Humphry 

 Davy, Esq. Sec. R. S. M.R.I. J . . 3 



II. On the Opinions that have prevailed respecting the Nur- 

 ture of Alkalis and Earths. By a Correspondent 18 



III. Description of a new Compensation Pendulum. By 

 Mr. H. Ward, of Blandford, Dorsetshire '.'. .. 22 



IV. Memoirs of the late Erasmus Darwin, M.D. 3Q 



V. On Oxalic Acid. By Thomas Thomson, M. D. 

 F.R.S. Ed. Communicated by Charles Hatchett, 

 Esq., F.R.S ,. . . 39 



VI. Memoir on the Incombustible Man ; or the pretended 

 Phenomenon of Incombustibility . Translated from the 

 Italian of Louis Sementtni, M.D., chief Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Royal University of Naples ... 47 



VII. Analysis of the lately discovered Mineral Waters at 

 Cheltenham ; and also of other Medicinal Springs in its 

 Neighbourhood. By Frederick Accum, M.R.I. A. 

 Operative Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry ami 

 on Mineralogy and Pharmacy, c#c 57 



VIII. On the Nature of the Earths .. 62 



IX. Description of a Machine for beating out Hemp-seeds 

 and Flax-seeds ; invented by Mr. Ezekiel Cleall, of 

 West Coker, Somersetshire . . . . . . . , . . 6j5 



X. Description of a Machine for breaking Hemp, tuith Ob~ 

 servations on the Culture of Hemp in Canada. By Wil- 

 liam Bond, Esq., of Canada 6g 



XI. Observations on the Breeding of Rabbits and other 

 Animals, in Ca?iada. By William Bond, Esq., of 

 Canada 7^ 



XII. Memoir upon the Desulphuration of Metals. By M. 

 Gueniveau, Engineer to the Mines . . 78 



XIII. Report of Surgical Cases in the City and Finsbury 

 Dispensaries, for April, May, and June, 1808. With two 

 Cases of Dropsy of the Ovarium. By John Taunton, 

 Esq .. .... .. &Q 



Vol. 32. No. 127. Dec. 1808. a XIV. Ac- 



