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21, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 



PLAN OF AN EXTENDED COURSE OF LECTURES, 



AND DEMONSTRATIONS, IN 



PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY, 



DELIVKRED IN 



Cfie aalioiatori) of tfie JSloaal Engtitutfon, 



BY WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE, 



Secretary of the Uoyal Society of London, and F.li.S., Edinburgh; Professor of Che- 

 ^Imistt^ in the Royal Institution, and of Chemisti-y and Materia Medica to the Apo- 

 thecaries' Company. 



1 HESE Lectures commence on the second Tuesday in October, at 

 Nine in the Morning, and are continued every Tuesday, Thursday, 

 and Saturday during the Season, which begins in October and termi- 

 nates in May. 



The subjects comprehended in these Lectures are treated of in the 

 following order : 



Division I. — Of the Powers and Properties of Matter ^ and the General 

 Laws of Chemical Changes. 



$ 1. Attraction — Crystallization — Chemical Affinity — Laws of Combination and Decomposition. 



\ 2. Heat — Its influence in Art and Nature. 



5 3. Electricity— Its Laws, and connexion witli Chemical Phaenomen.i. 



$ 4. Radiant Matter. 



Division IL — Of Undecompounded Substances and their mutual 



Combinations. 



$ 1. Substances that support Combustion— Oxygen— Clorine— Iodine. 



§ 2. Inflammable and Acidifiable Substances— Hydrogen— Mtrogen— Sulphur — Phosphorns— 



Carbon — Boron. 

 $ 3. Metals— and their Combinations with the various Substances described in the earlier part of 

 the Course. 



Division III. — Vegetable Chemistry > 



i 1. Chemical Physiology of Vegetables. 



{ 2. Modes of Analysis— Ultimate and proximate Elements. 



$ 3. Processes of Fermentation and their Products. 



Division IV. — Chemistry of the Animal Kingdom, 



i 1. General Views connected with this department of tha Science. 



9 2. Composition and Properties of the Solids and Fluids of Animals— Products of Disease. 



\ 3. Animal Functions. 



Division V. — Geology. 



i 1. Primitive and Secondary Rocks— Structure and situation of Veins. 



5 2. Decay of Rocks— Production of Soils— Their Analysis and Principles of Agricultural 



Improvement. . ,. » , i 



$ 3. Mineral Waters— Methods of ascertaining their Contents by Tests and by Analysis. 

 J 4. Volcanic Rocks— Phaenomena and Products of Volcanic ErnpUons. 



In the First Course, the principles and objects of Chemical Science 

 and the general Laws of Chemical Changes are explained, and the 



