Paper, 'On some new phaenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity, particularly, the decomposition of the fixed alkalies and the exhibition of the new substances which constitute their bases and on the nature of ammonia' by Humphry Davy Subject: Chemistry Published in Philosophical Transactions as '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 bases; and on the general nature of alkaline bodies'. Read 19 November 1807. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832. [1807]