DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY, i. 247-288. his birthplace, 247. his youth, 248. his poetic faculty, 248, 256, 261 _note_. his schooling, 250, 253. his portraits, 251-257. as a young man, 252, 257, 260 _note_, 261. articled to a surgeon, 253. his fondness for fishing and shooting, 254, 272, 282 _note_. begins chemistry, 254. becomes assistant at the Pneumatic Hospital, Clifton, 255. his dangerous experiments on nitrous oxide, etc., 256, 266. his scheme of study, 259. appointed to the Royal Institution, 259. the father of agricultural chemistry, 260. elected F.R.S., 260. delivers the Bakerian Lectures, i. 261. ill with typhus fever, 262. visits Ireland, 262. is urged to enter the Church, 263. is knighted, 264. is married, 264. visits Scotland, 266. experiments in electric lighting, 266. goes on the Continent, 267. experiments on the torpedo, 267, 284. examines the extinct French and Italian volcanoes, 268, 271. becomes acquainted with Volta, 268. helps to found the Geological Society of Penzance, 268. one of the founders of the Athenæum Club, 269. originates the Zoological Society, 269. returns to England in 1815, 269. discovers the safety-lamp, 270. is entertained by the coal-owners at Newcastle, 270. his will, 270 _note_, 286. is made a baronet, 271. revisits the Continent in 1818, 271. examines the fresco colouring at Pompeii, 272. do. the burnt papyri at Herculaneum, 272. returns to England in 1820, 272. visits Scott at Abbotsford, 272-275. his costume, 273, 277. his conversations with Scott, 275. is made President of the Royal Society, 277. his weekly social gatherings, 277. his illness, 278, 280. revisits Ireland, Wales and Scotland, 278. visits Penzance in 1821, 278. investigates metal sheathing for vessels, 278. visits Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 279. specimens of his poetry, 248, 279, 282. revisits the Continent in 1827, 280. retires from the Royal Society, i. 281. Royal Society medal in his honour, 281 _note_. his religious views, 281, 282. returns to London, 1827, 282. writes the 'Salmonia,' 283. last visit to the Continent in 1828, 283. plans 'Consolations of Travel,' 283. writes 'Last of the O'Donoghues,' 283. is seriously ill at Rome, 284. a good linguist, 284 _note_. his latest literary enjoyments, 285. at Geneva on his return homewards, 285. last hours and death at Geneva, 286. his death and epitaph, 286. his principal works and discoveries, 287 _note_. on Trevithick's steam locomotive, ii. 319 note. Davy, Robert, i. 247. Dr. John, i. 259, 280, 281, 284, 286. his analysis of Sir Humphry Davy's earlier discoveries, i. 263. De Crespigny, Eliza, Lord Vivian's first wife, ii. 348, 363.