Paper, 'Some experiments on the combustion of the diamond and other carbonaceous substances' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy Subject: Chemistry Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments on the combustion of the diamond and other carbonaceous substances'. Written by Davy in Rome. Read 23 June 1814. 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. 30 April 1814