‘Says Davy to Baryt, “I’ve a strong inclination To try to effect your deoxidation;” But Baryt replied, “Have a care of your mirth, Lest I should retaliate and change you to earth.”’ [37] The voltaic subscriptions amounted to 520_l._ [38] The predecessor of Mr. Faraday. [39] The discovery of the simplicity of chlorine was claimed by the French chemists; Davy afterwards said of Gay-Lussac’s paper in the _Annales de Chimie_ for July 1814, ‘The historical notes attached to it are of a nature not to be passed over without animadversion. M. Gay-Lussac states that he and M. Thénard were the first to advance the hypothesis that chlorine was a simple body, and he quotes M. Ampère as having entertained that opinion before me. On the subject of the originality of the idea of chlorine being a simple body I have always vindicated the claims of Scheele, but I must assume for myself the labour of having demonstrated its properties and combinations and of having explained the chemical phenomena it produces, and I am in possession of a letter from M. Ampère that shows he has no claims of this kind to make.’ [40] Count Rumford must have proposed a salary of 225_l._ (p. 238). [41] Expenditure to June 12. [42] Abolished in August. INDEX. Academy, American, of Arts and Sciences, 53; Bavarian, of Arts and Sciences, 89 Accounts of the Royal Institution, 180, 203, 304, 425 Agriculture, Board of, 201, 202, 215 Alkalies, decomposition of, 279 Alloys, experiments on, proposed, 192 Astle, T., his library bought, 259 Baldwin, Loammi, 6, 8, 41, 59, 62, 65, 67, 68 Banks, Sir Joseph, 3, 29, 73, 75, 77, 78, 80, 134, 153, 215, 261, 263, 275, 369 Bavaria, Elector of, his introduction to Rumford, 28; made Fellow of Royal Society, 29 Beggars at Munich, 31, 32 Bernard, Thomas (afterwards Sir Thomas), 46, 115, 138; report on the Institution, 203, 301; death, 302 Blagden, Sir C., 42, 69, 71, 77, 81, 84, 93 Böekman, Mr., 181 Brande, Mr., 308, 309, 389 Carleton, Sir Guy, 24, 25, 260, 405 Chemical operator, 172 Clinton, Sir Henry, 15, 19 Coleridge, Mr., his lectures, 277, 284, 342 Committee of Science, 215, 302, 309; committees for investigation, 154, 186, 138, 192, 280 Concord, formerly Rumford, 3, 113 Cooper, Astley, 259 Crotch, Dr., 260 Curwen, Judge, his sketch of Thompson, 18 Cuvier, Baron, his éloge on Rumford, 13, 29, 36, 109 Dalton, Mr., 216, 290 Dartmouth, Lord, 12