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XXXII. An Account of a 'Treatife , prefented 
to the Royal Society, intituled , “ Letters 
“ concerning Eledricity; in which the 
tc lateft Difcoveries upon this Subjed, and 
c< the Confequences which may be de- 
t£ duced from them, are examined ; by 
<c the Abbe Nollet , Member of the Royal 
cc Academy of Sciences of Paris , Fellow 
<c of the Royal Society, of the Inftitute of 
<£ Bologna , &c.” extraSled and tr an fated 
fro?n the French, by Mr. William Watfon, 
F. R. S. 
Read May 17, / | \HE work before us contains 262 
75 JL pages in nmo, exclufive of the 
preface, and four copper plates, reprefenting feven- 
teen figures. 
This treatife is the production of a great .matter 
upon the fubjeCt of eledricity : he has already pub- 
lifihed two volumes exprefsly thereupon, befides feve- 
ral memoirs among the works of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences at Paris. For feveral years he has done 
me the honour of being my correfpondent, and I 
have communicated feveral valuable papers from him 
to the Royal Society. 
The difcoveries made in the fummer of the year 
*75 2 w iii ma ^ e ^ memorable in the hiftory of elec- 
tricity. Thefe have opened a new field to philofo- 
C c pliers^ 
