Papers of David Skene: Discourses: Large folded sheet containing seven draft discourses Large folded sheet containing seven draft discourses, undated The discourses cover the following topics: 1: The existence of any connections between dispositions of mind and habits of body 2: Enthusiasm and its place in religious systems 3: The want of proper definitions in subjects under consideration, esp in Philosophy of the mind 4: Vegetable bodies 5: What is the cause of the ascent and suspension and fall of vapours in the atmosphere 6: The enumeration of eight different ends of speaking 7: Question: whether some part of the vegetable [ ] is not absorbed by the earth to a certain depth and conveyed into it ..........in form of watery fluid c 1760