I shall therefore conclude my long and arduous labour, by enumerating the different memoirs communicated by this distinguished philosopher to the Royal Society; and also the several works which he published at different periods of his brilliant but too fleeting career.
1. An Account of some Galvanic Combinations, formed by single metallic plates and fluids, analogous to the Galvanic Apparatus of M. Volta.Read June 18, 1801.
2. An Account of some Experiments and Observations on the constituent parts of certain Astringent Vegetables, and on their operation in Tanning.February 24, 1803.
3. An Account of some Analytical Experiments on a Mineral Production from Devonshire, consisting principally of Alumina and Water.February 28, 1805.
4. On a Method of analysing Stones containing a fixed Alkali, by means of Boracic acid.May 16, 1805.
* For the above papers, the Society awarded him the
Copley Medal.
5. The Bakerian Lecture.—On some Chemical agencies of Electricity.November 20, 1806.
** For this memoir, he received the prize of the
French Institute.
6. The Bakerian Lecture.—On some new Phenomena of Chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies, and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases; and on the general nature of Alkaline bodies.Read November 19, 1807.
7. Electro-chemical Researches on the Decomposition of the Earths; with Observations on the Metals obtained from the Alkaline Earths; and on the Amalgam procured from Ammonia.June 30, 1808.