---- medals, the, Institution of, 216 ---- Society, Davy’s election into the, 213; becomes Secretary, 112; becomes President, 214; his views of its functions, 215 Rumford, his theory of heat, 32; founds the Royal Institution, 66; visit of Davy to, at Auteuil, 177 ---- medal awarded to Davy, 213 Safety lamp, its invention, 192 _et seq._; account of, by Playfair, 203 “Salmonia,” Account of, 229 Scheele, discoverer of chlorine, 136 Scott, Sir Walter, his friendship for Lady Davy, 162; his friendship for Davy, 217 Ship-sheathing, Davy’s experiments on, 222 Silex in plants, 39 Sodium, Isolation of, 118; properties of, 119 Southey, Robert, his opinion of Davy, 18, 55, 56; letter to Davy, 56 Steel-mill, The, 193 Stephenson, George, his attempts to make a safe lamp, 205 Tanning, Lectures on, 72 Telluretted hydrogen, Discovery of, by Davy, 131 Tepidarians, The, 75, 78 Ticknor’s account of Davy, 190; of Lady Davy, 190 Tonkin, John, Davy’s benefactor, 9, 13, 20, 25, 53 Torpedo, Electricity of, 183, 231 Trinity College, Dublin, confers honorary LL.D. on Davy, 158 Vauquelin, Davy’s account of, 178 Vesuvius, Davy’s investigations on, 185, 187, 212 Volta, Davy’s account of, 186; Faraday’s account of, 188 Voltaic electricity, Davy’s contributions to, 93, 99, 100, 113, 114, 126, 131 ---- pile, Discovery of, 90, 93 Warington, Professor, his estimate of Davy as an agricultural chemist, 98 Watt, Gregory, his character, 21, 52 Wavellite, Davy’s analysis of, 94 “West Country Collection,” 30; characteristics of Davy’s contributions to, 37 Wollaston, William Hyde, character of, 214, 217; his death, 232 Wordsworth meets Davy on Helvellyn, 110 Young, Thomas, his connection with the Royal Institution, 72; his review of Davy’s “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” 167; death of, 234 PRINTED BY CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LA BELLE SAUVAGE, LONDON, E.C. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Humphry Davy Poet and Philosopher, by Thomas Edward Thorpe