CHAPTER TI. 

 Agb 31 TO 36—1849 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- 

 luigy' brought out^ and Alfred Smee also publishes 'The Process of 

 Thought' (book) — Relational and diflFerential 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 Vn. 



Agb 36 to 40—1854 to 1858. 



1854. Second edition of the 'Eye' — ^Binocular Perspective — Soirde — 

 On Education — Is the ori^ator of the educational lectures at the 

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

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

 at different periods of life — ^Alfired 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 VIIL 



Age 41 to 48—1859 to 1866. 



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

 land — Making of garden at Wallington — The &iturday 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 rsulways — ^Import- 

 ance of gardens for London — Advocates for trees to be' planted along 

 the Thames Embankment. 1860. Introduces the French system of 

 jasciculture into England — TTir fish-breeding house at Wallington — 

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

 vachtiig. 1861. He was the first in Finland to discover the comet of 

 June 30th, 1861. 1862. Efiiect 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 — ^Rrivate and secret burial-grounds, &c. . . . . 69 



