112 HIS f-ORr of the sociEtr. 



or to, et de Magnefia Alba: — Experiments on Magnefia, Quicklime, and 

 other Alkaline Subjlances, printed between the years 1754 and 

 1756 : — Obfervations on theEffett boiling has upon Water, in making 

 it freeze more readily, inferted in the fixty-fifth volume of the 

 Tranfactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1 774 r 

 — Analyfis of the Waters offome Hot Springs in Iceland, made at the 

 requeft of his friend Mr Stanley, who brought the fpecimen 

 for his infpection ; inferted in the third volume of the Tranfac- 

 tions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh : — Tzvo Letters, one pu- 

 bliihed in the year 1784, by ProfefTor Crell, in the tenth vo- 

 lume of his Collections ; the other addreffed to Monfieur La- 

 voisier, and publifhed in the Annales de Cbimie. 



With thefe notes of our Author's profeffional diftinction, 

 readers will not expect any tale of adventures or remarkable 

 events, which the lives of ftudious perfons feldom afford ; and 

 we rnuft conclude with a few lines of character, fuch as thofe 

 who are placed in like circumftances may underftand as fpoken 

 of themfelves, and for their advantage. 



His afpect was comely, his manner unaffected and plain, and 

 as he never had any thing about him for oftentation, he was at 

 all times precifely what the occafion required, and nothing more. 

 Much as he was engaged in the details of his public ftation, and 

 chemical exhibitions, his chamber never was lumbered with 

 books, fpecimens of natural hiftory, or the apparatus of experi- 

 ments ; nor did any one ever fee him hurried at one time to re- 

 cover any mat^r which had been improperly miffed at a former. 

 Every thing being done in its proper time and place, he ever 

 feemed to have leifure in flore, and he was ready to receive his 

 friend or acquaintance, and take his part with complacence, in 

 any converfation that occurred. No one ever, with more eafe to 

 himfelf, refrained from profeffional difcuffions of any fort, or, in 

 mixed company, more willingly left the fubject of converfation 



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