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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or ...
Sir Humphry DavySir Humphry Davy John Davy. DIALOGUE THE THIRD. THE UNKNOWN. THE same persons accompanied me in many journeys by land and water to different parts of the Phlegrwan fields, and we enjoyed in a most delightful season, the ...
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sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.)sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) an experiment." And yet this discovery of the metallic base of potash was one result of the investigations of Sir Humphry Davy, whose practical applications of his scientific discoveries to useful and beneficial ...
Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].
Benjamin Collins Brodie (sir, 1st bart.)Benjamin Collins Brodie (sir, 1st bart.) ... Sir Humphry Davy, when a boy, was placed under a schoolmaster who neglected his duties, and adverting to this subject in a letter addressed to his mother after he was settled in London, he says , ...
Psychological inquiries: in a series of essays [signed B.C.B.].
sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.)sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) ... of fact than any of their predecessors in the same department of science ; yet it continued to prevail long after Sir Humphry Davy, in his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, had demonstrated its fallacy.
Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review
Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.)Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.) ... on reflection, surprising that a gentleman of ready abilities should, in due time, learn to decipher "broad writing" — such as " sromfredevi," for Sir Humphry Davy; "Ner the Wises," for Near Devizes ; " Biley Ilikey ...
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
More editionsA collection of family papers relating mostly to the West Indies and to (a) Sir William Stapleton, 1st bart. (d. 1686), including his 'Answer ... (d) correspondence , papers, diaries and note-books of Sir Humphry Davy (d. 1829), his brother Dr. John ...
Humphry Davy
Raymond Lamont-BrownBorn in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
Humphry Davy: Science and Power
David KnightAn entertaining, accessible biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
Bubbles from the brunnens of Nassau, by an old man [sir F.B. ...
sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.)sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) like the fire in the grate, it begins to warm its new mansion." Such was the scene, and such was the effect, daily witnessed round one of nature's simplest and most beneficent remedies. All the drinkers seemed ...
Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the ...
sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.)sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) pace at which they can skim over the plains on horseback is so swift, in comparison to the rate they could crawl on foot, that the latter must seem a cheerless exertion. As a military nation they are much to be ...
Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and ...
sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.)sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) THE FAMILY SHAKSPEARE; in which nothing is added to the Original Text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be readaloud. ByT Bowdler Esq. F.R.S. Seventh ...
The emigrant
sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.)sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) MR. MURRAY'S LIST OF WORKS IN PREPARATION. QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLVT. CONTENTS : I. FORTIFICATIONS of PARIS. II. LORD NUGENT-S TRAVELS in GREECE. III. SPANISH LADY'S LOVE.
KNIGHTAGE & COMPANIONAGE
DEBRETT'S BARON ETAGEDomyile, Sir Charles Compton William, 2nd Bart Domvile, Sir William Compton, 3rd Bart Douglas, Sir Robert, 3rd Bart. ... DrrrzE, Sir Lewis, 3rd Bart. Elton, Sir Edward ... Shockbcroii, Sir George Thomas Francis, 9th Bart. Stonhoose, Sir Henry ...
Biology in Relation to Other Natrural Sciences
Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1st bart.)Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson (1st bart.) ... And, finally, a new branch of study, histology, founded on observations which the microscope had for the first time rendered possible, had come into existence. Bowman, one of the earliest and ...
The history of the public revenue of the British empire
sir John Sinclair (1st bart.)sir John Sinclair (1st bart.) CHAP. VII. Os the Revenue of England during the Government of the Houses of Lancaster and York. nnHE æra, to the investigation of which this chap- nmm, ,/ □*□ ter is dedicated, considering its duration, is f'^f,;,, ...
the peerage, baronetage, and knightage of great britain and ...
charles r. dodSir Wastell Brisco, son of the 1st bart., by the dau. of Gilbert Fane Fleming, Esq. Born 1778; mar. 1806, Miss Sarah Lester; succeeded his ... BRODIE, 1st Bart. ( Utd. Kgdm.) Creat. 1834— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, F.R.S., 3rd son of the Rev .
Reports relating to the failure of the Rio Plata mining ...
sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.)sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) " ing those mines winch have been considered of " the greatest importance, it was their private in- " tention to have written to the Directors, and to " have protested against such an evident loss, in " case I had ...
The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and ...
Robert P. DodSin Henry Marsh, son of the 1st bart., by his 1st wife the dau. of Thomas Crowe, Esq., of Ennis, co. Clare, and relict of William Arthur, Esq. ... County; 2ndly, 1856 ( as his 2nd wife), Sir Henry Marsh, 1st bart., who died 1860. Residence — Dublin.
General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and ...
More editionsKohond (Sir), 3rd bart. 2. John, a general officer in the army; who .... R.A., of Row, Dorset, and has issue. Lineage-Sir George Thomas, 1st Bart., of Yapton Place, Sussex, governor 0f Pennsylvania 1738-47, and of the Leeward Islands 1763-66, ...
The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And ...
ReadThe 1st bart. represented Rochester in * Residences—Canada; iarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent. HEIR, his son John, born at Over Ross 1840. HEAD, 1st BART. (Utd. Kgdm.) Creat. 1838; K.C.H., 1835.-SIR FRANCIs Bond HEAD, son of ...
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