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Lecture IV. Saturday, May lOM. Processes of Distillation— Application of 

 Heat — of Cold — Distillatioa of Solid Bodies, or Sublimation. 



Lecture V. Saturday, May \7th. Precipitation of Substances from a state of 

 Solution — important use of this Process — Precautions. 



Lecture VL Saturday, May 24M. Separation of Precipitates — Filtration — 

 Decanting operations — Fluids separated. 



Lecture VIL Saturday, May 31s/. Processes of Evaporation— Tests of Dry^. 

 ness — drying Operations. 



Lecture VIIL Saturday, June 7th. Coloured Tests— their general nature, ap- 

 plication, and uses. 



On Botany. By Edmund John Clark, M.D„ RL.S., M.R.I. 



Lecture L Wednesday, May 7th. Introductory Sketch of the Progress and 

 Utility of Botanical Science — Simplicity of the Arrangement — ^^Advantages of Lin- 

 nean Classification — Examples, &c. 



Lecture It. JVednesday, May 14th. Linnean Classification further illustrated 

 and exemplified — Physiological Suggestions— Natural Divisions, &c. 



Lecture IIL Wednesday, May 21s/. Linnean Classification continued Con- 

 nexion with Botanical Physiology — Vegetable Structure further considered. — Pecu- 

 liar Organizations. Philosophy of final Causes, as exemplified in the Vegetable 

 Kingdom. 



Lecture IV. Wednesday, May 28M. Further Relations of Botanical Science- 

 Anomalous Structures — anticipated Improvements— Connexion with Therapeutics 

 — Practical Observations — Conclusion. ^^"^M * » 



On Hieroglyphics. By the Marquis SpinetA^P, 



Lecture I. Friday, May 30M. Introduction — Necessity of prior Explanations 



—Difficulties of Hieroglyphics — Requisites for understanding them History — 



Religious Doctrines — Antiquities ; Thebes, Memphis, Abydos, &c. 



Lecture II. Friday, June 6th. Opinions of the Ancients concerning the Nature 

 and Use of Hieroglyphics — Erroneous Judgments of the Moderns — Scarcity of Mo- 

 numents — The Rosetta Stone — Discoveries made by M. de Sacy, Ackerblad, Dr. 

 Young — Enchorial Alphabet — Attempt at decyphering Hieroglyphics — Reflexions. 



Lecture III. Wednesday, June IIM. Continuation of the same Subject — Dis- 

 covery made by Mr. W. Banks — Champollion's Letter to M. Dacier — Precis du 

 Systeme Hieroglyphique — Hieroglyphical Alphabet — Number of Characters — Il- 

 lustrations — Disposition of Signs — Examples — General Rules — Application of the 

 Alphabet to the reading of the Names of Egyptian Princes under the Romans, 

 the Greeks, the Persians, the Pharaohs — Coincidence between the Bible and some 

 of these Legends. 



Lecture IV. Friday, June I3th. Division of Hieroglyphics— Explained — 

 Legends of some of the principal Deities — Characters of some of tliem as the Rulers 

 of the vEmenti — Account of the Regions to which the Souls of the Dead might be 

 sent — Mode by which they were tried — Important Tenets it inculca.ted — Origin 

 of the Tartarus, the Elysium — Pluto — Cerberus — Charon, &c. 



Lecture V. Wednesday, June ISth. Continuation of the same Subject — Exhi- 

 bition of a curious Specimen — Further examination of Hieroglyphics — Grammatical 

 Forms — Genders — Numbers — Verbs — Pronouns — Mixture of Signs — Legends — 

 Mystic Titles, or praenomen assumed by the Egyptian Princes — Coincidence of the 

 Egyptian Inscriptions with the Names of some of the Kings mentioned in the Bible. 



Lecture VI. Friday, June 2Qlh. The Subject continued — Legend of Rameses 

 Illei-amoun round the Cover of the Sarcophagus in Cambridge — Explanaticm — 

 Antiquity of the Monument — Reflexions on Chronology — Table of Abydos — Disco- 

 veries of Champollion--.The Hik-shog, or the Shepherd Kings. — Conclusion, 



