CHIMICO JjìSAME Di-CrLI ESPERIMEilTI BEL SIC. 
GOXTLIUC, PROFESSOR A .TERA, SOPRA LA LIXS 
DEL FOSFORO DI KUNKEL , etc, By L^-Wpal - 
lanzani, Modena, 1796; translation Ly F. 
Alex. McDermott, Vvashington, D.C., 1911. 
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Chapter Vili: Fenomena obserTed with 
other forms of fosforus in ordxnary air^ 
oxygen^ and in various otlier gases* 
Secji 107: The material whioh up tc thè 
present hasr:serYd as thè basis for my ob- 
servaticns and reflectionSj has been Kun- 
kel*3 fosforus, But I kncw that there 
ar other forms cf fosforus, such. as cer- 
tain combinations which become fosf orescent , 
as do some woods and putrefying aniniral tis- 
sus, cr those (combinations) whicli ar natu» 
rally so ^ suoh as certa in fish, worms and 
insects. Having observd thè conduci of 
Kunkel ’ 3 fcsforus toward Yarious permanent 
gaseSj which (observation) I hav treated 
of logically in thè preseding chapters, I 
was impeld by my curiosity to undertake 
some exaniination of thè conàuct of some of 
thè other foms of fosforas toward these 
Srame gases, and thè ncvelty of thè subject 
gavfc a strcnger incentiv to my reserch. 
The firstj therefor, that I took for con- 
sideration happend tc be a piec pf wocd j 
(of thè kind) which may soiTietirne's be ob- 
servd to shine night and day,, and which in 
some parts of Italy is cominoniy cald thè 
'*Fucchi matti" (terrible fire) • This wcod 
was brot to me in August, 1795, by some 
cuntrymen, from a mountain near Modena, 
where they had found it, . It was thè trunk 
of a chestnut tree (which had been) cut 
down, and which, having Icst its vegetativ 
.power, was subject to a superficial incipi- 
