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... cmergy. The subjects of the sketches are Robert Boyle, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Cavendish, Count Rum~ford, Thomas Young, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. They do not pretend to give any fresh infoizmation about these distin- guished men, but only ...