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CATALOGUE.—HISTORY OF TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS.

Observes, that the electric fire seemed to be of the samenature as lightning.

Lallamand. Ph.tr. 1746.78.

The first, time he felt the shock, he lost the use of hisbreath for some moments. Musschenbrock says he expe-rienced a most terrible pain.

Needham. Pli. tr. 1746. <247.

Lemonnier discovered the permanency of the electriccharge, and Nollct tried its effect on ] so men at once.Gralath’s history of electricity. Danz. Ge-sellsch. 1. 23.

llollmann’s history of attraction. C. Gott.1754. IV.271.

-f-Watsonon thelyncurimn.Ph.tr. 1759.394.Trombelli and Collinaon the invention of thecompass. C. Bon. 11. iii.333, 372.Priestley’s history of electricity.

Titius de experiment Lugdunensis in veil-tore. 4. Witteml). 1771.

Beckmann on the shock. Erfind. 2 ed.Leips. 1783. I. 571. On the tourmalin. 248.

History of opinions respecting the elements.Roz. X. 286.

Blagden’s history of the congelation of quick-silver. Ph. tr. 1783. 329.

Braun was the first that established it.

Falconer on the knowledge of the ancients.

Manch. M. I. 261. III. 278.

Walker on the congelation of quicksilver inEngland. Ph. tr. 1789. 199.

Count Rtunford’s institution of a prize fordiscoveries on heat and light. Ph. tr. 1797.215.'

The first medal was presented to Count Rumford himself;the second to Mr. Leslie.

Gren on the history-of physics, with an ac-count of authors. Gilb. I. 167.

The Society for the Encouragement of Art9 still proposespremiums for improvements in the mode of heating rooms,and for methods of sweeping chimnies by machinery.