Paper, 'Some experiments on a solid compound of iodine and oxygene and on its chemical agencies' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy Two copies of the manuscript. Subject: Chemistry Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments on a solid compound of iodine and oxygene, and on its chemical agencies'. Written by Davy in Rome. Read 20 April 1815. 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 2, 1833. 12 February 1815