V 



In the spring of 1812, Mr. Davy (afterwards Sir Humphry "Davy), with 

 whom Mr. Brande was on cordial and intimate terms, delivered his last 

 course of lectures in the Royal Institution. On the occasion of his mar- 

 riage at this date he resigned the chair of Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Royal Institution, and invited Mr. Brande to deliver for him a course of 

 lectures which he had been in the habit of giving annually before the 

 Board of iigriculture. These lectures were delivered gratuitously by Mr. 

 Brande ; but in the following year this Board was dissolved. 



In the winter of 1831, Mr. Brande gave a probationary course of Che- 

 mistry at the Royal Institution, and in May of the same year he was unani- 

 mously elected Professor of Chemistry. In the autumn of this year he 

 took possession of the apartments that had been occupied by Sir Humphry 

 Davy, and was then completely installed as his successor. Sir Humphry 

 went abroad and did not return for two years. 



In October 1815, Mr. Brande transferred the pupils from his School of 

 Chemistry in Winrlmill Street to the laboratory of the Royal Institution, 

 and he commenced a regular and extended course of lectures on this science. 

 In consequence of the death of Dr. Pearson, the chemical lectures were also 

 transferred from St. George's Hospital to the Royal Institution. His 

 lectures were well attended and contributed to raise the reputation of the 

 Institution as a seat of practical instruction. He was subsequently assisted 

 in these lectures by Mr. Faraday. Mr. Brande devoted himself at this 

 time entirely to chemical pursuits and to lectures on the science. 



In 1823 he was consulted by the Government and drew up a report 

 on the manufacture of iron and steel. The manufacture of the metal for 

 coinage formed a part of the inquiry ; and the office being vacant in 1825, 

 Mr. Brande was appointed Superintendent of the Die Department at the 

 Royal Mint. In 1854, he resigned his professorship in the Royal In- 

 stitution, and was made Superintendent of the Coining department at the 

 Mint. 



It was in the year 1825 that Mr. Faraday became associated with 

 Mr. Brande in the lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. He also 

 had the assistance of Mr. Faraday in the publication of the * Quarterly 

 Journal of Science and the Arts,' edited at the Royal Institution. This 

 publication was commenced in 1816, and was carried on until 1836, when 

 it fell into other hands and was soon discontinued. In 1836 Mr. Brande 

 was named one of the original Fellows of the University of London, and a 

 Member of the Senate of that Body ; and in 1846 he became Examiner in 

 Chemistry, an office which he retained until 1858. He received the hono- 

 rary degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford. He was 

 a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and of many 

 other British and Foreign Societies. From 1816 to 1826 Mr. Brande 

 was one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 



Mr. Brande was the author of a ' Manual of Chemistry,' which went 

 through six editions, of a * Dictionary of Pharmacy and Materia Medica,' 



