ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



Albemarle Street, December 3, 1827. 



A COURSE OF SIX ELEMENTARY LECTURES ON CHE- 

 MISTRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audience, will be delivered during the 

 Christmas Recess, by Michael Faraday, F. R. S., Corr. Mem. Roy. 

 Acad. Sciences, Paris ; Director of tlie Laboratory, &c. &c. 



The Lectures will commence at Three o" Clock. 



Lecture I. Saturday, December 29. Substances generally — Solids, 

 Fluids, Gases— Chemical affinity. 



Lecture II. Tuesday, January 1, 1828. Atmospheric Air and its 

 Gases. 



Lecture III. Thursday, January 3. Water and its Elements. 



Lecture IV. Saturday, January 5. Nitric Acid or Aquafortis— Am- 

 monia or Volatile Alkali — Muriatic Acid or Spirit of Salt — Chlorine, &c. 



Lecture V. Tuesday, January 8. Sulphur, Phosphorus, Carbon, and 

 their Acids. 



Lecture VI. Thursday, January 10. Metals and their Oxides — 

 Earths, Fixed Alkalies and Salts, &c. 



Non-Subscribers to the Institution are admitted to the above Course 

 on payment of One Guinea each ; Children, 10*. %d. 



The Weekly Evening Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution 

 will commence for the ensuing Season, on Friday the 25tn of January, 

 1828, at half past Eight o'Clock, and will be continued on each succeed- 

 ing Friday Evening, at the same hour, till further notice. 



The Lectures will commence for the Season on Saturday the 2d of 

 February, at Three o'Clock, by Wm. Thos. Brande, Esq., F.R.S. Lond., 

 and Edin., Prof, of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 



The Library of the Royal Institution is open for the use of the Mem- 

 bers and Subscribers every day on which the House of the Institution is 

 open ; in Winter from Ten till Four, and from Seven till Ten in the 

 Evening ; and in Summer from Ten till Five, and from Seven till Ten in 

 the Evening. 



Mr. Brande and Mr. Faraday will .commence the Spring Course of 

 their Chemical Lectures and Demonstrations, in the Laboratory of the 

 Royal Institution, on Tuesday, the 12th of February, at Nine in the 

 morning precisely. A Prospectus may be obtained at the Institution, 

 or of the respective Lecturers. 



In the Press y and nearly ready for publication ^ 

 A COLLECTION OF CHEMICAL TABLES, for the use of 

 Practical Chemists and Students, in Illustration of the Theory of 

 Definite Proportionals; in which are shewn the Equivalent Numbers 

 of the Elementary Substances, with the Weights and Volumes in which 

 they combine ; together with the Composition of their most important 

 Compounds, and the Authorities for their Analysis. 



By William Thomas Brande. 



