The First Course of- these Lectures will commence on Tuesday, the7\\\ of Oc- 

 tober, at Nine in the Morning precisely. The Second Course will begin 

 on the Second Tuesday in February, at the same hour. 



®f>t 2£ouaI Sfnittttitfom 



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 in 



the Royal Institution, and of Chemistry and Materia Medica 



to the Apothecaries' Company. 



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 given during the Season, which begins in October, and terminates 

 in June. 



The Subjects comprehended in the Courses are treated of in the 

 follmving 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. 

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



Art and Nature. 



§ 3. Electricity— Its Laws and Connexion with 



Chemical Phenomena. § 4. Radiant Matter. 



Division II. 

 OF UNDECOMPOUNDED SUBSTANCES, 

 AND THEIR MUTUAL COMBINATIONS, 

 j. 1. Substances that support Combustion : Oxy- 

 gen— Chlorine— Iodine. 

 $ 2. Inflammable and Acidifiable Substances : 

 Hydrogen— Nitrogen— Sulphn i — Phosphorus- 

 Carbon — Boron. 

 $ 3. Metals— and their Combinations, with the va- 

 rious Substances described in the early part 

 of the Conr8e. 



Division HI- 

 VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY, 

 j 1. Chemical Physiology of Vegetables. 



£ 2. Modes of Analysis— Ultimate and proximate 



Elements. 



§ 3. Processes of Fermentation, and their 



Ei oducts. 



Division IV. 



CHEMISTRY OF THE ANIMAL 



KINGDOM. 



$ 1. General Views connected with this Depart- 

 ment of the Science. 

 § 2. Composition and Properties of the Solids 

 and Fluids of Animals. 



§ 3. Products of Disease. 

 Functions. 



: 4. Animal 



Division V. 

 GEOLOGY. 



§ 1. Primitive and secondary Rocks — Structure 



and Situation of Veins. 



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



Analysis — Principles of Agricultural 



Improvement. 



§ 3. Mineral Waters— Methods of Ascertaining 



their Contents by Tests and by Analysis. 



$ 4. Volcanic Rocks— Phenomena and Products 



of Volcanic Eruptions. 



• Mr. Brand's Manual of Chemistry, intended as a Text Book to these Lectures, is pub- 

 lisbed by Mr. Murray, Albcroarlc-Strect. 



