84 SYLLABUS OF THE LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY 



by drawings representing sections of strata, &c. ; on the 

 Steam-Engine, as described in p. 15 17; on Meteorites, 

 illustrated by a small collection of those remarkable substances 

 in the possession of the Teacher, and by a series of transpa- 

 rencies representing the meteors from which they are pro- 

 jected ; and on some detached portions of the Natural History 

 of the Invertebrate Animals, especially of the Annulosa (in- 

 cluding Insects and the Crab-tribe), as well as of some in- 

 teresting groups of Tunicata, Radiata, and Acrita; illustrated 

 by transparencies representing the animals, or parts of them, 

 on a highly-magnified scale *. 



For the purpose of more fully explaining the nature of the 

 instruction which it has been endeavoured to communicate, in 

 this department, as well as to assist in imparting, to those who 

 may be but imperfectly acquainted with the objects of the 

 Physical Sciences, some idea of the interest which attaches 

 to those objects, I shall now give a somewhat detailed Syllabus 

 of two Courses of Lectures on Chemistry, which were first 

 delivered at Hazelwood, in the autumn of 1829, but which 

 were given at Bruce Castle, in the Spring of 1830, with va- 

 rious improvements, suggested by the experience I had then 

 acquired, in adapting the truths of Chemical Science to the 

 instruction of youth. 



My object, at present, is to describe the progress which has 

 been made in this department of the Education given in the 

 Schools of Hazelwood and Bruce Castle, in terms exactly ex- 

 pressive of the reality ; not to state the beau ideal which might 

 be imagined on the subject, nor even to describe what has been 

 effected, in terms according only with what I may now see 

 ought to be done. For what may yet be effected, the public can 

 have no pledge; but from a. bond fide statement of what has 

 already been executed, they may form a judgement of the quali- 

 fications of the Teacher, and of the means of tuition placed at 

 his disposal. In the following Syllabus, therefore, the subjects 

 of the Lectures will be detailed, just in the order in which 

 they have actually been considered, and in the manner in 

 which their history has been examined ; in both which I am 

 aware that there are many imperfections, which it is my in- 



* The pictorial illustrations employed in the Lectures on Meteorites, 

 were those which had been previously used by the Teacher, in the Courses 

 delivered by him upon that subject, at the Russell Institution, in 1825, the 

 London Institution, in 1828, the City of London Literary and Scientific 

 Institution, in 1829, and the Birmingham Philosophical Institution, in 1830. 



Those with which the Lectures on the Natural History of the Invertebrate 

 Animals were illustrated, formed part of the series employed in Courses, 

 on the Animal Kingdom, and on the Organization of Animals, given, re- 

 spactively, at the London Mechanics' Institution, in 1827, and at the Russell 

 Institution, in 1829. 



