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jects : 1st. Fashion ; 2d. Americanisms ;. 3d. Intellectual and social 

 amusements. 



One lecture by W. G. Dix, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Subject : 

 The Andes and Ecuador. 



A course of twenty-two lectures by Professor J. Lawrence Smith, of 

 the University of Virginia. 



]st. The importance of the study of chemistry, and its close con- 

 nexion with the progress of the arts and manufactures of the present 

 age ; also general notice of the nature of bodies, more especially 

 gaseous bodies. 



2d. The elements of the atmosphere : oxygen, nitrogen, and ozone, 

 or oxygen in its allotropic condition. 



3d. The physical properties of the atmosphere : its weight, color, 

 elasticity, &c. 



4th. The compounds of nitrogen and oxygen. 



5th. Sulphur and some of its compounds. 



6th. Sulphuric acid and its applications. Phosphorus and phos- 

 phoric acid. 



7th. Chlorine, its applications in the arts and its combination with 

 oxygen. Iodine and its uses, with a notice of its application in the 

 photographic art. 



8th. Some of the compounds of chlorine and iodine, bromine, hydro- 

 gen, and its application to aeronautics. 



9th. Compounds of oxygen and hydrogen ; the oxyhydrogen blow- 

 pipe and the Drummond light; water in several of its relations. 



10th. Combinations of hydrogen with nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, 

 and chlorine. 



I lth. Carbon under its various forms of diamond, charcoal, and 

 mineral coal ; the combinations of carbon and oxygen. 



12th. The agency of carbonic acid in forming incrustations of car- 

 bonate of lime ; the respiration of plants and animals ; the formation of 

 coal-beds and the composition of coals ; carbonic oxide and some of 

 the compounds of carbon. 



13th. Compounds of carbon and hydrogen ; explosions in coal mines; 

 Sir Humphrey Davy's lamp ; combustion. 



14th. On the phenomena of combustion and ebullition. 



15th. On the phenomena of illumination, with an exhibition of every 

 variety of illumination, from a candle to the electric light. 



16th. On the phenomena of illumination, with illustration of every 

 form of artificial illumination ; an account of the construction and prin- 

 ciple of the Fresnel light used in light-houses. 



17th. On the ebullition and congelation of water, with a short ac- 

 count of the application of the. vapor of water as a motive power. 



18th. The conversion of w r ater into steam ; its application as a mo- 

 tive power, with some remarks on the explosion of boilers ; an account 

 of some of the vapors and gases proposed as substitutes for steam as 

 motive power. 



19th. General properties of the metals ; potash and soda, with an 

 account of their applications to the arts of glass and soap making, &c. 



20th. On the compounds of lime, alumina, and silica, with their ap- 

 plications. 



