CHAP.

CONTENTS.

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I

22

44

II. GEORGE FOX IN CUMBERLAND-EAGLESFIELD-JOHN DAL-

TON'S ANCESTORS HIS BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND

FRIENDS-SCHOOLMASTER AND PLOUGHMAN-ADIEU

TO HOME

III. KENDAL SCHOOL AND SOCIAL LIFE-LECTURES ON NATURAL

PHILOSOPHY MR GOUGH'S FRIENDSHIP

CONTRI-

BUTION TO THE DIARIES -INVESTIGATIONS OF

ENGLISH SURNAMES

IV. NATURAL HISTORY PURSUITS-METEOROLOGICAL LABOURS

AND CORRESPONDENCE-BOTANY ENTOMOLOGY-

STUDY OF MAN AND THAT OF MEDICINE CONTEM-

PLATED HIS FATHER'S WILL IN DISPUTE, AND NOVEL

ARBITRATION-LEAVES KENDAL FOR MANCHESTER

V. NEW

COLLEGE OF

MANCHESTER

-

METEOROLOGICAL

ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS "-THE ATMOSPHERE-

EVAPORATION-AURORA BOREALIS-JOINS THE LITER-

ARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER-

CORRESPONDENCE

VI. ON DALTON'S COLOUR-BLINDNESS

VII. HIS IDEAS ON QUAKER-WORSHIP-THE HANDSOME WIDOW

AND LOVABLE SPINSTER-POETICAL EFFORT-ESSAYS

ON THE QUANTITY OF RAIN AND DEW-ON THE

CHAP.

POWER OF FLUIDS TO CONDUCT HEAT-MAXIMUM

DENSITY OF WATER-THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY-ESSAYS ON

HEAT AND COLD PRODUCED BY CONDENSATION AND

RAREFACTION OF AIR CONSTITUTION OF MIXED

GASESFORCE OF STEAM- EVAPORATION - EXPAN-

SION OF GASES BY HEAT

VIII. ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR — AN EXCURSION

GRAMMAR AND

VARIETY OF CORRESPONDENCE

PUPILS THE ATMOSPHERE-FIRST INDICATIONS OF

MULTIPLE PROPORTION-ELASTIC FLUIDS-ABSORP-

TION OF GASES ATOMIC WEIGHTS AND INDEX TO

• ATOMIC THEORY

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143

IX. A SKETCH OF THE ATOMIC THEORY FROM THALES TO SIR

ISAAC NEWTON

161

X. THE ATOMIC THEORY FROM SIR ISAAC NEWTON TO JOHN

DALTON

XI. JOHN DALTON ESTABLISHES THE ATOMIC THEORY

181

XII. PORTRAITURE-SOCIAL HABITS-TEACHING AND ITS RE-

WARDS LECTURES AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION,

LONDON-HIS RESIDENCE-HIS RETICENCE ON PUBLIC

AFFAIRS-LECTURES IN EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, AND

LONDON HIS CORRESPONDENCE ON A VARIETY OF

TOPICS.

XIII. VISIT FROM M. PELLETAN DALTON'S APPARATUS

CHEMICAL PROGRESS GAY LUSSAC'S LAW OF COM-

BINATION BY VOLUME-DALTON'S OBSTINACY-ROYAL

SOCIETY-NEW SYSTEM OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY-

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES-POLAR EXPEDITION-VISITS

PARIS UNDER HAPPY AUSPICES

XIV. DR DALTON'S HOLIDAYS-MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTI-

TUTE-D.C.L.-HIS CLAIMS TO A PENSION-OPINIONS

OF DRS HENRY AND SEDGWICK ON THE SUBJECT

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XV. BONAPARTE'S LOVE OF SCIENCE-OPINIONS OF THOMSON,

WOLLASTON, HERSCHEL, GRAHAM, BERZELIUS, FARA-

DAY, LIEBIG, ROSCOE, CANNIZZARO, TYNDALL, DUMAS

AND WURTZ ON THE ATOMIC THEORY.

APPENDIX.

JOHN DALTON'S STATEMENT OF THE CASE IN THE AFFAIR

BETWIXT HIS BROTHER AND SELF

LIST OF DR DALTON'S ESSAYS AND WORKS

ATOMIC SYMBOLS.

289

301

ERRATUM.

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