314 C H A PTE R 50. 
Mr. Watson condiidled fome other expe- 
fimentSj with fo much fagacity and addrefs^ 
relating to the impraaicabihty of tranf- 
mitting odours, and the power of purgatives 
through glafs 3 and thofe relating to the 
exhibition of what w^as called the Glorv 
round the Head/' or the Beatification," 
boa fled to have been done by fome philofo- 
phers on the continent 5 that he procured, 
at length, an acknowledgment from Mr, 
BosE, of what he called an Embellifli-" 
ment," in condudting the experiments ^ 
a procedure totally incompatible with the 
true fpirit of a philofopher ! 
Mr. Watson's firft papers on the fubje(ft 
of Elearicity, were addreffed, in three let-^ 
ters, to Martin Folkes, Efq^ Prefident of 
the Royal Society, dated in March, April,, 
and Oftober 1745 \ and were publilhed in 
the Fhilofophical TranJliBlons (z), under the 
title of Experiments and Obfervations 
*^ tending to illuftrate the Nature and Pro- 
perties of Ele£tricity/' Thefe were fol- 
lovv^ed in the beginning of the next year 
(z) Pk'iL Trauj, Vol xliii. p» 481 — 501. and Vol. 
xliv. p. 695—704. 
(1746). 
