Watfon. 315 
(1746) by'* Farther Experiments, &c. 
and thefe by A Sequel to ^he Experi- 
ments, &c/' 
Thefe trails were collefted, and fepa-. 
rately published in oitavo, and reached to 
a third or fourth edition. They were of fo 
interefting a nature, that they gave him 
the lead, as it were, in this branch of phi- 
lofophy ; and were not only the means of 
raifing him to a high degree of eftimation 
at home, but of extending his fame 
throughout all Europe, His houfe became 
the refort of the moft ingenious and illuf- 
trious experimental philofophers that Eng-^ 
land <:ould boaft. 
Several of the nobility attended on thele 
occafionss and his prefent Majefty George 
III. when Prince of Wales^ honoured him 
with his prefence. In fad:, there needs no 
greater confirmation of his merit, at that 
early time, as an ele£lrician, than the pub- 
lic teftimony conferred upon him by the 
Royal Society, which, in 1745, prefented 
him with Sir Godfrey Copley's medal, for 
|iis difcoveries in eledtricity. 
{a) Phil, Tranf. Vol. xliv. p, 70|«*749, 
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