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XXXIV. An Account of Profejfor Winkler ’j 
Experiments relating to Odours paffing 
through eleclrifed Globes and Tubes , being 
the ExtraEl and Truncation from the Latin 
of two Letters fent by that Gentleman to 
Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secretary of 
the Royal Society. With an Accoimt of 
the Refult of fome Experiments made here 
with Globes and Tubes , tranfmitted from 
Leipfic hy Mr . Winkler to the Royal 
Society, in order to verify the EaSls before - 
mentioned , by Mr. W. Watfon, F. R. S. 
Readjune OFES S O R Winkler, in his firffc 
1751 ‘ Jl letter to Dr. Mortimer, dated at Leip- 
fic, March 12, 1748, mentions, among other parti- 
culars, that if odoriferous fubflanc.es were included in 
glafs globes and tubes clofely flopped, and if thefe 
globes were eleCtrifed, the fmell of the odoriferous 
fubitances would as eafily as the magnetical power 
pals through the glafs, and be conveyed with the 
eleCtrical effluvia to confiderable diftances, upon fub- 
flances readily conducting eledricity : that when a man 
was eleCtrifed with a globe of this fort, the odorife- 
rous matter pervaded his whole body ; and that not 
only his fkin and his cloaths, but his breath, faliva, 
and fweat, were impregnated with the fmell of the 
fubflance included in the glafs.. That after thefe 
globes had been rubbed a few minutes, the flavour 
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