CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Age - TO 16—1818 to 1834. 



1818. Alfred Smee, bom June 18tli — 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 buUy— 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 



CHAPTEE II. 



Aqb 16 TO 21—1834 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 Greological 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 IIL 



Age 22 to 24—1840 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 



