LONDON: CAMBRIDGE WAREHOUSE, 17, PATERNOSTER ROW. LEIPZIG: F. A. BROCKHAUS. 1879 [All Rights reserved.] CONTENTS. Biographical data-Lord Charles Cavendish's experiments-Henry Cavendish lived with his father during his electrical researches- His laboratory in Great Marlborough Street-His apparatus-His attendant-Committee of the Royal Society on lightning con- ductors-Cavendish's researches on the electric current-Papers on the Torpedo by Walsh, Hunter, &c.-Experiment on the formation of nitric acid before the Royal Society-Cavendish's Account of Cavendish's Writings on Electricity. Why Cavendish did not publish them State of electrical science-Lord Mahon's experiments-Estimate of "Whether the charge of a coated plate bears the same proportion to that of a simple conductor whether the electrification is strong |