Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Societies

    Reports that at the Royal Society a paper was read 'on the reduction of metals by a solution of salts, within the voltaic circuit', and the observation that Epsom salts reduce shillings to smaller coinage. Reports that one member presented a case of silver exposed to air becoming completely absorbed by 'some invisible influence': the disappearance of a silver plate in a room is attributed to the fusion of silver in the 'atmospheric humidity' or 'voltaic action'.