CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 AGE - TO 161818 TO 1834. 



1818. Alfred Smee, born June 18th Family Infancy His love for fruit 

 Is precocious Goes to St. Paul's School His natural power of 

 observation displayed as a boy Fights a bully Other traits in his 

 character as a boy An adept in climbing trees Ignorant of all games 

 Love of animals shown Dislikes cruelty to dumb creatures 



CHAPTER II. 

 AGE 16 TO 211834 TO 1839. 



1834. Leaves St. Paul's School, age sixteen, and becomes a medical student 

 at King's College, London. 1836. Distinguishes himself at King's 

 College Takes the first prize for Chemistry. 1837. Takes the first 

 prize for Anatomy and the first prize for Physiology His answers in 

 Divinity. 1838. Reads his first paper before the Geological Society, 

 ' On the State in which Animal Matter is usually found in Fossils ' 

 His second paper, ' On the Chemical Nature of the External 

 Envelope of the Frog's Spawn ' Leaves King's College and goes to 

 St. Bartholomew's, where he carries off the prize for Surgery Nearly 

 loses the sight of one eye by a chemical experiment. 1839. Invents 

 a form of splint for fractures, and writes a paper on it, * On the 

 Formation of Moulding Tablets for Fractures' Also one on 'Gutta 

 Percha Splints ' His paper on ' Photogenic Drawing ' Reads a paper 

 before the Royal Society, ' On the Structure of Normal and Adven- 

 titious Bone ' His experiment-book Account-book Laboratory 

 Life at the Bank of England His love of music 



CHAPTER III. 

 AGE 22 TO 241840 TO 1842. 



1840. Twenty-second year of his age " Smee's Battery " Marriage of 

 Alfred Smee, June 2nd Paper 'On the Ferrosesquicyanuret of 

 Potassium' His first book, published in December, on 'Electro- 

 Metallurgy ' His researches in that science Gives the name Electro- 

 Metallurgy. 1841. Letter of Brande, the chemist Alfred Smee gives 

 a lecture at the Royal Institution, January 26th, 'On the Laws 

 regulating the Voltaic Precipitation of Metals' His specimens in 

 Electro-Metallurgy shown at various places The coppered cucumber 



