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the subject of a great chapter in the philosophy of Natural 

 History. That philosophy contemplates the laws that regu- 

 late the manifestation of life exhibited in organised nature, 

 and their dependence upon and connection with the inorganic 

 world and its phenomena. None teaches more emphatically 

 the difficulties with which man's mind must contend when 

 attempting to comprehend the wisdom embodied in the uni- 

 verse, and none holds out a more cheering prospect of future 

 discovery in fresh and unexpected fields of delightful research. 



Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851, deli- 

 vered before the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Com- 

 merce, at the suggestion of His Royal Highness Prince 

 Albert, President of the Society* 



The following are the subjects discussed in these Lec- 

 tures : 



I. The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the 

 Progress of Art and Science. By the Rev. W. 

 Whewell, 3>.D., F.R.S., Master of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. 

 II. Mining, Quarrying, and Metallurgical Processes and 

 Products. By Sir H. T. De la Beche, C.B., F.R.S. 



III. The Haw Materials from the Animal Kingdom. By 

 Richard Owen, F.R.S. 



IV. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Processes and Pro- 

 ducts. By Jacob Bell, Esq., M.P. 



V. The Chemical Principles involved in the Manufactures 

 of the Exhibition, as indicating the Necessity of In- 

 dustrial Instruction. By Lyon Playfair, C.B., F.R.S. 



VI. Substances used as Food, illustrated by the Great 

 Exhibition. By John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in University College, London. 



VII. The Vegetable Substances used in the Arts and 

 Manufactures, in relation to Commerce generally. 

 By Professor Edward Solly, F.R.S. 



* Published by David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, London. 1852. 



