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Rabbits exposed to the Action of the Galvanic Fluid. In some 
experiments the rabbits were first pithed, aud then galvanism 
applied to ascertain how long and in what degree the vital fune- 
tions could be revived. It was, however, candidly admitted that 
no legitimate conclusions could be drawn from experiments made 
on animals under the circumstances of pain, disease and de- 
rangement occasioned by the previous wounds, ; 
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ROYAL INSTITUTION. 
The following is the Plan of an extended and practical Course 
of Lectures and Demonstrations on Chemistry, to be delivered 
in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution by William Thomas 
Brande, esq. 
These Lectures will commence on Tuesday the 6th of Fe- 
bruary at Nine in the morning, and will be continued every 
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 5, 
The subjects comprehended in the Course are treated of in 
the following order : : 
Division 1, Of the Powers and Properties of Matter, and the 
general Laws of Cheinical Changes. 
§ 1. Attraction —Crystallization —Chemical Affinity — Laws 
of Combination and Decomposition.—§ 2. Light and Heat— 
Their Influence as Chemical Agents in Art and Nature. 
§ 3. Electricity—Its Laws and Connexion with Chemical Phe- 
nomena. 
Division 1. Of undecompounded Substances and their mutual 
Combinations, 4 
§ }. Substances that support Combustion, Oxygen, Chlorine, 
Todine. —§ 2. Inflammable and acidifiable Substances—Hy- 
drogen—N itrogen—Sulphur—Phosphorus—Carbon— Boron.— 
§ 3. Metals—and_ their Combinations with the various Sub- 
stances described in the earlier part of the Course. 
Division U1. Vegetable Chemistry. 
§ 1. Chemical Physiology of Vegetables.—§ 2, Modes of 
Avalysis—UJtimate and proximate Elements.—§ 3, Processes 
of Fermentation, and their Products. 
Division 1V. 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 Diseasex—§ 3, Animal Func- 
tions. 
Division V. Geology. 
§ 1. Primitive and secondary Rocks—Structure and situation 
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