316 CHAPTER 50. 
After this mark of diftindion, Mr.WAT- 
SON continued to profecute eledlrical ftudies 
and experiments, and to write on the fub- 
jed: for many years. Between the year 
1745, the date of his £rft paper, and the 
year 1764, that of the laft, we find all thofe 
papers wliich I have recited below [b). 
After 
[h) Obfervations upon fo much of Monfieur le Mou- 
NiSR the younger's Memoir, lately prefented to the 
Royal Society, as relates to the Communication of the 
ElcSlrk Virtue to Non-eleclrics. Jan. 1746-7. Vol, 
xliv. p. 388—395. 
A Colietftion of Eledrical Experiments. Vol. xlv. 
p. 49—92. Thefe were the firfl experiments made by* 
Mr. V/atson to determine the velocity of eledricity, 
and the diftance to which its power might be carried j 
made on the Thames, in July and Auguft, 1747. 
Further Enquiries into the Nature and Properties of 
Electricity. Jan. 1748. lb, p. 93 — 120. 
Experiments made to determine the abfolute Velocity 
t>f Eledricity. Odl-. 1748. lb. p. 491—6. Made at 
Shooier's Hill 
A Letter from Mr. William Watson, F. R.S. to the 
Royal Society, declaring that he, as well as many otherSj 
have not been able to make Odours pafs through Glafs, by 
means of Ele6iricity \ and giving a particular Account of 
Profefibr Bose at Wittemherg^ his Experiment of Beatific 
cation^ or caufmg a Glory to appear round a Man's 
Head by Electricity. March i. 1750. Vol. xlvi. p. 
348—356. 
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