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Paper, 'On some chemical agencies of electricity being the Bakerian Lecture' by Humphry Davy

Reference number: PT/1/2

Date: 1806

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical agencies of electricity'.

Read 20 November 1806.

The manuscript is divided into ten parts. Pagination is correct through part VIII, and although pagination skips from page 65 directly to page 67 in part VII, no text is missing. From part IX, pagination restarts from 74.

There are five instances of footnotes that are inserted as flaps of paper covering the text to which they relate.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.

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PT/1/2
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1806
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105 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On some chemical agencies of electricity being the Bakerian Lecture' by Humphry Davy, 1806, PT/1/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_1_2/paper-on-some-chemical-agencies-of-electricity-being-the-bakerian-lecture-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 15 May 2025

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