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the body of Clydesdale the murderer, immediately after execution, caused no little noise at the time, the rumour of which, Byron has recorded in his ‘Don Juan.’ An interesting record of this case is to be found in the Dictionary of Chemistry, under ‘Galvanism.’ A paper in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ May 1822, ‘On the Ultimate Analysis of Vegetable and Animal Substances,’ contains some of the earliest accurate researches in organic chemistry, a department which Dr. Ure considered was