s6q Dr. Wells's Observations on an Influence , &c. 
the passage of the charge of a Leyden phial, from one of its 
surfaces to the other, does not affect the most delicate electro- 
meter, suspended from a wire or other substance, which forms 
the communication between them. 
Such are the observations I mean at present to submit to 
the consideration of this Society, respecting the influence 
which incites the muscles of animals to contract, in Mr. Gal- 
vani's experiments, 
