The First Course of these Lectures will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October, 

 at Nine in the Morning precisehj. The Second Course will begin on the 

 Second Tuesday in February, at the same hour, 



'Ei)t Uoml institution* 



ALBEM.4 RLE-STREET. 



PLAN 



OF AN EXTENDED AND PRACTICAL COURSE OF LECTURES 

 AND DEMONSTRATIONS ON 



CHEMISTRY, 



DELIVERED IN THE LABORATORY OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, 



BY WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE, F.R.S., 



Secretary of the Royal Society of London, and F.R.S. Edinburgh ; Professor of Chemistry i» 



the Hoyal Jn^tilufion, and of Chemistry and Materia Mediea 



to the Apothecaries' Company. 



4ND 



M. FARADAY, F.R.S., &c. 



These Lectures commence on the First Tuesday in October, at Nine in 

 the Morning-, and are continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Two 

 Courses are g^iven during the Season, which begins in October, and terminates 

 in June. 



The Subjects comprehended in the Courses are treated of in the 

 following order*. 



Division I. 

 OF THE POWERS AND PROPERTIES OF 



MATTER, AND THE GENERAL LAWS 



OF CHEMICAL CHANGES. 

 5 1. Attraction— Crystallization — Chemical'Affinity 



— Laws of Combination and Decomposition. 

 § 2. Heat— Its Influence as a Chemical Agent in 



Art and Nature. 

 i a. EUctricity— Its Laws and Connexion willi 



Cbemical Phenomena. § 4. Radiant Matter. 



Division II. 

 OF UNDECOMPOUNDED SUBSTANCES, 

 AND THEIR MUTUAL COMBINATIONS. 

 i I. Substances that support Combustion: Oxy- 

 gen — Clilorine — Iodine. 

 § 2. Inflammable and Acidlfiable Substances 

 Hydrogen— Nitro'^en— Sulphur— Phosphorus — 

 Carbon — I'oron. 

 ^ S. Metals — and their Comliina'.ions, with tlic va* 

 rious Substances ilescribed in the early part 

 of tbe Courae. 



Division III. 



VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY. 



i I. Cbemical Physiology of Vctctables. 



§ 2. Modes of Analysis — Ultimate and proximate 



Elements. 



§ S.^Processes of Fermentation, and their 



Products. 



Division IV. 



CHEMISTRY OF THE ANIMAL 



KINGDOM. 



i 1. General Views connected with this Depart' 



raeut of the Science. 

 § 2. Composition and Properties of the Solids 

 and Fluids of Animals. 



5 3. Products^of Disease. 

 Functions. 



§ 4. Animal 



Division V. 



GEOLOGY. 



§ I. Primitive and secondary Rocks— Slractar* 



and Situation of Veins. 



i 2. Decay of Rocks— Production of Soils— Their 



Analysis — Principles of Agricultural 



Iniproveineiit. 



5 a. Mineral Waters— Methods of Ascertaining 



their Contents by Tests and by Analysis. 

 § 4. Volcanic Rocks — Phenomena and Product! i 

 of Vulcanic Eruptions. 



• Mr, BnANDB'a Manii*!. or CHRuixTiir, intended as a Text Book to then* Leclnre«,l< 

 publiebed by Mr. Murray, Albcmarle-Street. 



