ROYAL INSTITUTION, 



21,~ Albemarle-Street. 



THE 



LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS 

 ON CHEMISTRY, 



Delivered in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution^ 



BY PROFESSOR BRANDE, 



Commence on the first Tuesday in October, at nine in the morning, and 

 are continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 



Two Courses are given during the Season, which begins in October, 

 and terminates in June. 



The subjects comprehended in the Courses are treated of in the fol- 

 ing order : — 



Division I. Of the Poxvers and properties of Matter, and the General 

 Laws of Chemical Changes. 



$ 1. Attraction — Crystallization — 

 Chemical aftinitj'-^Lavrs of Combina- 

 tion and Decomposition. 



$ 2. Heat — Its influence in art and 



nature. 



$ 3. Electricity — Its Laws and con- 

 nexion with Chemical phxnomeua. 



§ 4. Radiant Matter. 



Division II. Of Undecompounded Substances, and their Mutual Com- 

 binations. 



§ 1. Substances that support Com- 

 bustion; — Oxygen, Clorine, Iodine. 



§ 2. Inflammable and acidifiable Sub- 

 stances j — Hydrogen — Nitrogen — Sul- 



phur — Phosphorus — Carbon — Boron. 



§ 3. Metals — and their Combinations 

 with the various Substances described in 

 the earlier part of the Course. 



Division III. Vegetable Chemistry. 



§ 1. Chemical Physiology of Vege- 

 tables. 



proximate Elements. 

 § 3. Processes of Fermentation, and 



§ S. Modes of Analysis — Ultimate & their products, 



Division IV. Chemistry of the Animal Kingdom 



§ 1. General views connected with 

 this department of the Science. 



$ 2. Composition and properties of 



the Solids and Fluids of Animals- 

 Products of Disease. 

 § 3. Animal Functions. 



Division V. Geology. 



§ 1. Primitive and secondary Rocks 

 T— Structure and sit\iation of Veins. 



§ 2. Decay of Rocks — Production of 

 Soils — Their analysis and principles of 

 Agricultural improvement. 



§ 3. Mineral WaterS'^Methods of as- 

 certaining their contents by Tests and 

 by Analysis. 



§ 4. Volcanic Rocks— Phasnomena 

 and Products of Volcanic eruptions. 



