This is an error. Mr. Chorley was not editor of the Athenaeum, though he was one of its principal contributors.
Andrew Crosse, the electrician, who had recently published his observations of a remarkable development of insect life in connection with certain electrical experiments—a discovery which caused much controversy at the time, on account of its supposed bearings on the origin of life and the doctrine of creation.
Altered in later editions to 'satisfies.'