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and of a smaller volume on Chemistry, especially designed for students, 

 published in 1861 . In 1842 he undertook the editorship of the ' Dictionary 

 of Science and Art,' a most laborious undertaking ; and at the time of his 

 death he was occupied in revising a new edition of this work. His scien- 

 tific contributions to periodical literature were also very numerous. 



From 1808 to 1854, the long period of forty-six years, the subject of 

 this memoir had been before the public as a lecturer on chemistry. He 

 was indefatigable' as a teacher of this science. In addition to the lectures 

 regularly delivered at the Royal Institution and the Society of Apotheca- 

 ries, Mr. Brande lectured for some time on chemistry to the classes at St. 

 Bartholomew's Medical School. Many of the past and present generation, 

 whether in or out of the medical profession, owe much of their knowledge 

 of this science to his teaching. The substance of his lectures is incorpo- 

 rated in the great work by which he acquired a European reputation, 

 namely his 'Manual of Chemistry.' ^This work was, in its day, one of the 

 most popular in the English language, and there are few recent treatises on 

 the subject which are not indebted to its pages for much valuable informa- 

 tion. He found chemistry an ill-arranged collection of facts, and succeeded 

 in reducing them into form and order, thus aiding greatly in the cultiva- 

 tion of the science and in placing it on an intelligible basis. 



No scientific man who was brought in contact with Mr. Brande could 

 fail to be struck with the accuracy and extent of his knowledge, the reten- 

 tiveness of his memory, and the truthfulness and honesty of purpose by 

 which he was always actuated. The friend of Gay-Lussac and Thenard 

 and the associate of Davy and Faraday, he formed a connecting link be- 

 tween the chemists of the past and the present generation. He lived to 

 see the most remarkable changes in the science which he had himself so 

 successfully cultivated, but, like his great contemporaries, he preferred de- 

 monstration to speculation ; and although ready to adopt what was esta- 

 blished by experiment, however it might confliict with his previous views, 

 he was strongly opposed to innovations based upon mere hypotheses. In 

 private life Mr. Brande was well known as a man of genial character. 

 His conversational powers were great, and no man could pass an hour in his 

 society without retaining a pleasant reminiscence of him as a companion. 



A. S. T. 



William Brinton, M.D., was the second son of the late Mr. Henry 

 Brinton, one of the principal carpet manufacturers of Kidderminster, where 

 the subject of the present notice was born, on the 20th of November, 1823. 

 After attaining remarkable proficiency at school, William Brinton was ap- 

 prenticed to a surgeon in his native town, and in October 1843 entered 

 the medical department of King's College, having in the preceding sum- 

 mer matriculated, with honours, at the University of London. He passed 

 through his student career with great distinction, and was noted among his 

 fellows not only for the general ability and indomitable perseverance with 

 wliich he applied himself to intellectual work, but especially for his unde- 



