It is with heartfelt gratitude that I recall to mind the politeness and lively interest shown by the members of the College of Surgeons in the prosecution of these experiments. Mr. Keate, the master, in particular proposed to make comparative experiments on animals, in order to give support to the deductions resulting from those on the human body. Mr. Blicke observed that on similar occasions it would be proper to immerse the body in a warm salt bath, in order to ascertain how far it might promote the action of Galvanism on the whole surface of the body. Dr. Pearson recommended oxygen gas to be substituted instead of the atmospheric air blown into the lungs. It gives me great pleasure to have an opportunity of communicating these observations to the public, in justice to the eminent characters who suggested them, and as an inducement to physiologists not to overlook the minutest circumstance which may tend to improve experiments that promise so greatly to relieve the sufferings of mankind. No. II. _Report presented to the Class of the Exact Sciences of the Academy of Turin, 15th August 1802, in regard to the Galvanic Experiments made by_ C. VASSALI-EANDI, GIULIO, _and_ ROSSI, _on the 10th and 14th of the same Month, on the Bodies of three Men a short Time after their Decapitation. By_ C. GIULIO. The First Consul, in a letter to Chaptal, in which he announced to that minister the two prizes he had founded to encourage philosophers to make new researches in regard to Galvanism, says, “Galvanism, in my opinion, will lead to great discoveries.” This observation was just and profound: great discoveries have already been made; Galvani and Volta have immortalized their names, and several celebrated philosophers and physiologists have rendered themselves illustrious in this branch of science, so abundant in astonishing phænomena: yet it is only in its infancy, and there can be no doubt that many important discoveries still remain to be made. Vassali, Rossi, and myself, have for several years been employed in researches on this subject. While the first examined the Galvanic fluid in every point of view, for the purpose of illustrating its nature by means of a great number of ingenious experiments, performed with that care and exactness for which he is distinguished, Rossi and I attempted to explain the action of the Galvanic fluid on the different organs of the animal œconomy. Sometimes I was obliged to interrupt my researches by unfortunate circumstances, and at others by my administrative functions: but I have now resumed them; and though success has not yet crowned our efforts by any brilliant discovery, we trust, and with confidence, that we shall be able to add some valuable facts to the history of the animal œconomy; to rectify others; to confirm facts already received; and to extend the domain of an inexhaustible agent fertile in wonders.