1829.] Memoir of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. members of the Academy took their place in the funeral procession; and the invitations to the Syndicate, and to the learned bodies who accompanied it, were made by that body. The whole was conducted with much appropriate order and decency; and whilst every attention and respect were paid to the memory of an individual, who has done his ample share of good to mankind during his life, and whose name will be handed down to posterity amongst those who have most emiBently contributed to spread the bounds of science, nothing was attempted, to step beyond the limits of that unostentatious simplicity which the deceased had frequently declared to be his wish, whenever his mortal remains should be conveyed to their last home. from Ammonia. 15 kaline Earths, and an Amalgam procured a Plan for Improving the Royal Institution, and making it permanent. 1810, 8vo. Elements of Chemical Philosophy. 1812, 8vo. Course of Lectures before the Board of Practical Hints on the Application_of Wire-gauze to Lamps, for preventing Explosions in Coal-mines. 1816, 8vo. Six Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, at their Anniversary Meetings, on the award of the Royal and Copley Medals; preceded by an Address to the Society, delivered in 1800, on the Progress and Prospects of Science." 4to. The following chronological series will show the number and value of the articles contributed by Sir Humphry to the Philosophical Transactions: Account of some Galvanic Combinations formed by the Arrangement of single Metallic Plates and Fluids, analagous to the new Galvanic Apparatus of Mr. Volta. 1801. The procession, which followed the corporate bodies, and the countrymen of the deceased, was joined by many of the most eminent manufacturers of the city, and a large body of mechanics, who were anxious to pay this tribute of regard and of gratitude for one, whom they deservedly looked upon as a Account of some experiments and obsergreat benefactor to the arts, and pro- Astringent Vegetables, and on their operavations on the constituent parts of certain moter of the sciences, by the application in Tanning. 1803. tion of which they earned their livelihood. An account of some analytical experiments on a Mineral Production from De vonshire, consisting principally of Alumine and Water. 1805. On a method of analysing stones, coutaining fixed Alkali, by means of the Boracic Acid. Ibid. The Bakerian Lecture on some Chemical Agencies of Electricity. 1807. Sir Humphry having died without issue, his Baronetcy has become extinet. The "allusive" arms assigned to him by the heralds, (and which are engraved above his portrait,) are, Sable, a chevron engrailed Erminois between two annulets in chief Or, and in base a flame Proper, encompassed by a chain Sable, issuant from a civic wreath Or. Crest: out of a civic wreath Or, an elephant's head Sable, ear Or, tusks Argent, the proboscis Basis, and on the general nature of Alkaattached by a line to a ducal coronet around the neck Or. Motto, Igne constricto vita secura. The following works, of which Sir Humphry Davy is the author, attest the debt which the world owes to his great mind and meritorious exertions : Chemical and Philosophical Researches, chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide and its Respiration. 1800, 8vo. A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry at the Royal Institution. 1802, 8vo. A Discourse, introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry. 1802, 8vo. Electro-Chemical Researches on the Decomposition of the Earths; with Observations on the Metals obtained from the Al The Bakerian Lecture on some new phenomena of Chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the decomposition of the fixed Alkalies, and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their line bodies. 1808. The Bakerian Lecture; an Account of some new analytical researches on the nature of certain Bodies, particularly the Alkalies, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Carbonaceous, Matter, and the Acids hitherto undecompounded; with some general Observations on Chemical Theory. 1809. New Analytical Researches on the nature of certain Bodies; being an Appendix to the Bakerian Lecture for 1808. The Bakerian Lecture for 1809, in some new Electro-Chemical researches on various objects, particularly the Metallic Bodies from the Alkalies and the Earths, and on some Combinations of Hydrogen. 1810. Researches on the Oxymuriatic Acid, its nature and Combinations, and on the Elements of the Muriatic Acid; with some 16 Sir Humphry Davy, Bart,-Highbury Observatory. Experiments on Sulphur and Phosphorus, made in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution. Ibid. The Bakerian Lecture, on some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the chemical relations of these principles to Inflammable Bodies. 1811. Also another paper in the same volume in continuation of the subject. On some Combinations of Phosphorus and Sulphur, and on some other subjects of Chemical Inquiry. 1812. Two papers on a new Detonating Compound. 1818. Some experiments and observations on the Substances produced in different Chemical Processes on Fluor Spar. Ibid. An Account of some new experiments on the Fluoric Compounds; with some observations on other objects of Chemical Inquiry. 1814. Some experiments and observations on a new substance, which becomes a violet-coloured Gas by Heat. Ibid. Further Experiments and Observations on Iodine. Ibid. Some Experiments on the Combustion of the Diamond, and other Carbonaceous substances. Ibid. Some Experiments and Observations on the Colours used in Painting by the An cients. 1815. Some Experiments on a Solid Compound of Iodine and Oxygen, and on its Chemical Agencies. Ibid. On the Action of Acids on the Salts usually called Hyperoxymuriates, and on the Gases produced from them. Ibid. On the Fire-Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mines so as to prevent Explosion; an Account of an Invention for giving Light in explosive Mix tures of Fire-Damp in Coal-Mines, by consuming the Fire-Damp; and further Experiments on the Conibustion of explosive Mixtures confined by Wire Gauze; with some Observations on Flame. 1816. Some Researches on Flame; and some new Experiments and Observations on the Combustion of Gaseous Mixtures; with an Account of a Method of preserving continued Light in Mixtures of Inflammable Gases, and Air without Flame. 1817. On the Fallacy of the Experiments in which Water is said to have been formed by the Decomposition of Chlorine. 1818. New Experiments on some of the Combinations of Phosphorus. Ibid. Observations on the Formation of Mists in particular Situations. 1819. On the Magnetic Phenomena produced by Electricity. Observations and Experiments on the Papyri found in the Ruins of Herculaneum. Researches on the Magnetic Phenomena produced by Electricity, with some new Experiments on the properties of Electrified [July, Bodies, in their relation to their conducting On the Electrical Phenomena exhibited in Vacuo. On the state of Water and Aëriform Matter in Cavities found in certain Crystals. On a new Phenomenon of Electro-mag netism. On the Condensation of Muriatic Gas into the Liquid Form. On the Application of Liquids formed by the Condensation of Gases as Mechanical Agents-with Appendix. Experiments and Observations on the Application of Electrical Combinations to the Preservation of the Copper Sheathing of Ships. The Bakerian Lecture on the relations of Electrical and Chemical Changes. 1826. On the Phænomenon of Volcanos. 1828. An account of some Experiments on the Torpedo. To Nicholson's Journal he communicated: An Account of some Experiments made with the Galvanic Apparatus of Signor Volta. 1801. Note respecting the absorption of Nitrous Gas, by solutions of green sulphate and muriate of iron. 1802. To the Philosophical Magazine: A few additional practical observations on the wire-gauze Safety Lamps for mines. 1816. Suggestions arising from inspections of wire gauze Lamps in their working state in Mines. Ibid. IN 1794, when the following Stanzas were written, the Highbury Observatory had been long admired for the excellence of its apparatus, as well as for the plan of the building; and it continued to be enriched with new instruments, so as to keep pace with the inventions and discoveries of Herschel, Maskelyne, and other great improvers of practical astronomy and optics, who flourished during that memorable period. This splendid establishment was therefore constantly visited, and viewed with increasing admiration by many of the first astronomers of Europe, until the death of Mr. Aubert, which tions of his observatory also ceased. happened in 1806, when the operaFor, as he could not bequeath his science or taste with his wealth, his unrivalled collection of astronomical instruments, clocks, chronometers, and other treasures of art, were brought to 1829.] Lines on Practical Astronomy.—Elsden Church. public sale, eagerly purchased by men of science, and widely dispersed. The celebrated dome or rotutory roof, however, was not disposed of at the sale; but it has been since purchased by an eminent astronomer, and transferred to his observatory at Kilworth, in Leicestershire, where it is adopted with advantage, and viewed with veneration. It is not only admired as a fine specimen of mechanism (originally constructed by the famous Smeaton, of Edystone memory); but it is likewise revered as an interesting relic of the Highbury Observatory. Such are the recollections respecting the fame and fate of this once noble establishment, of which nothing now remains but the walls; and these afford only a melancholy reminiscence of departed merit, and a memento of the mutability of human affairs. Even the rural beauties of Highbury Park, "the rich romantic scenes" herein alluded to, are vanished, or metamorphosed into buildings and brick fields. Lines on Practical Astronomy, by Dr. Kelly; addressed to Alexander Aubert, Esq. F.R.S. c. c. in reference to his splendid Observatory at Highbury. Thy dome, Aubert, with reverence I view, And hail its noble use and learned store; boasted lore. Here truths sublime and sacred science Cause ! The noblest study of aspiring man. New systems open to us as we climb; Each glittering star gives law to circling Which ran eternal rounds in faithful time, I hail thy taste sublime, and skilful hand, Such as, till now, no private fortune plann'd, 17 Nor should the muse disdain that rural Make laurels ever sacred to the ground. CHURCH AND CASTLE OF ELSDEN*. St. Cuthbert, the festival of whose deposition is on March 20th, and of his translation on September of the long famous Regality of Redes6th. As this was the superior church dale, we will endeavour to describe it with some degree of minuteness.— The patronage of it has been invested in the lords paramount of Redesdale ever since the Conquest. It is a rectory, and in 1291 was valued at 907. 16s. 5d. a year, exclusive of the portion lued at 61. 13s. 4d., and that of the of Roger Normand in the same, va "In master of "Illeschawe" at 51. Redesdale," says Leland, "be three parish churches. The chiefest is Ellesdene, then Halistone, and Corsenside. To these parishes resort the Witeidingmen, otherwise called Thanes, of that English march." Elsden church is in the form of a cross, with two aisles, which pass into the west sides of the transepts, or porches. The nave, including the aisles, is 40 feet long by 32 feet broad; the chancel, 45 feet by 39; the porches each a little more than 21 feet square; that from belonging to the numerous clan on the south is called Hedley's porch, of that name; and that on the north, Anderson's porch, from a family who were once owners of Birdhope Cragg, and probably of the land called Anderson's Lands, in Elsden, 1663. By the style of its architecture, we suppose that the whole of the present edifice was built soon after the time of Richard the Second. It has a flat leaded roof, which has once had a high pitch, as may be seen by the flashing stones in the west gable, and a part of the great window of the chancel appearing above the present roof. The southwest window of the chancel is squareheaded, and of three lights, the arches This article is abstracted from Hodgson's "" History of Northumberland," with additions. |