Description: Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Second Series. Volume II. Printed for R. Bickerstaff, London, by Russell and Allen, Manchester 1813. viii, 484pp., 9 plates. Containing John Dalton's article, "On Respiration and Animal Heat" (pp. 15-44). Also includes contributions by the chemist William Henry on gas experiments, galvanic electricity, and uric acid; his father Thomas Henry on lightning; John Sharpe on steam experiments; the engineer Peter Ewart's article "On the measure of moving force"; the paleontologist William Martin on rotten stone; other contributions by Henry Dewar, John Gough, William Johns, Thomas Jarrold. Much of spine lost, the remainder very chipped; boards (and endpapers) detached, worn, corners worn through. Pages yellowed with sporadic foxing, smudges, minor blemishes.
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