CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER VI. 



AGE 31 TO 361849 TO 1854. 



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1849. ' Electro-Biology ' is published (book) Lecture on Electro-Biology 

 ' Principles of the Human Mind 'Article on ' Gutta-percha and its 

 Uses' The Cholera, article on. 1850. 'Instinct and Reason' 

 (book) Why written Sketch of the general plan of the work 

 Smee's hot and cold detector. 1851. Third edition of * Electro-Metal- 

 lurgy ' brought out, and Alfred Smee also publishes ' The Process of 

 Thought' (book) Relational and differential machines Writes long; 

 articles in the 'Illustrated London News' and in the 'Morning 

 Chronicle' Article on Wardian cases, and on plants that can be 

 grown in London or a smoky town Lectures at Newbury and else- 

 where Writes a Memoir of Wyon First visit to Paris Is an angler 

 Is a regular attendant at St. Paul's Cathedral Power of prayer .. 50 



CHAPTER VII. 

 AGE 36 TO 401854 TO 1858. 



1854. Second edition of the 'Eye' Binocular Perspective Soire'e 

 On Education Is the originator of the educational lectures at the 

 London Institution, and delivers the first of them there, for which 

 he draws up a diagram showing the faculties of the human mind 

 at different periods of life Alfred Smee originates and establishes a 

 new form of printing the Bank of England note. 1856. Letters to the 

 Society of Arts' Journal on the ' Practical Application of the Decimal 

 Coinage,' and on the ' Relation between Decimal Coins and Weights 

 and Measures.' 1857. Lecture at the London Institution on 'The 

 Monogenesis of Physical Forces 'Visit to Paris. 1858. Eclipse of 

 the sun Experiments at Blisworth with Smee's photometer . . . . 63 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 AGE 41 TO 481859 TO 1866. 



1859. ' Debility and Defective Nutrition ' is published (book) To Switzer- 

 land Making of garden at Wallington The Saturday reunions 

 Sewage Croydon Local Board Injunctions against, extending over 

 some years. 1866. Water supply and pre-existing sewage. 1860 to 

 1865. Proposed spoliation of Finsbury Circus by railways Import- 

 ance of gardens for London Advocates for trees to be" planted along 

 the Thames Embankment. 1860. Introduces the French system of 

 pisciculture into England His fish-breeding house at Wallington 

 Alfred Smee was a sportsman as well as a fisherman, and also fond of 

 yachting. 1861. He was the first in England to discover the comet of 

 June 30th, 1861. 1862. Effect on hearing a sermon Writes an 

 anonymous pamphlet on ' Reasons for not hanging Garrotters and 

 Burglars 'Other anonymous satires from his pen. 1863. Controversy 

 with the Oratorians Private and secret burial-grounds, &c. . . 



