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in 1803, and entered St George’s Hospital, attending the lectures 
and dissecting room of that institution. At this time he communi- 
cated several papers to Nicholson’s Journal : one On Benzoin in 
1805 ;* one on The Theory of Respiration in 1805 ;f and another On 
the Enamel of the Teeth in 1806. J In 1806 he communicated to 
the Royal Society a paper On Guaiacum, which was published in 
their Transactions. In 1808 he examined the calculi in the Hun- 
terian Museum, and gave lectures on Chemistry in Dr Hooper’s in 
Cork Street. At this time he became a member of the New Medical 
School in Windmill Street, and began his career as a Teacher and 
Demonstrator in Chemistry, publishing many important papers in 
the •“ Philosophical Journals,” and in the “Transactions of the 
Royal Society.” In 1809 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 
Society. In 1813 he received the Copley Medal for his communi- 
cations to the Society; and on the death of Dr Wollaston, in the 
same year, he succeeded him as Principal Secretary to that body, 
an office which he held till 1826. In 1812 he was elected Professor 
of Chemistry and Materia Medica to the Apothecaries’ Company, of 
which he became Master in 1851. On Sir Humphry Davy’s recom- 
mendation, he was elected Professor of Chemistry to the Royal In- 
stitution ; and he occupied that position for many years, in conjunc- 
tion with Dr Faraday. He was elected an Ordinary Fellow of this 
Society in 1815, but made no contributions to our Transactions. 
In 1816 he began, in conjunction with Dr Faraday, to publish 
“ The Journal of Science and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institu- 
tion,” which was continued in sixteen volumes till 1825, when he 
was appointed Superintendent of the Die department in the Mint. 
In 1836 he was appointed Fellow, and in 1846 Examiner in the 
London University. In 1853 he received the honorary degree of 
D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. In 1823 he published his 
his “ Manual of Pharmacy,” and in 1842 his “ Dictionary of Art 
and Science.” 
He took an active interest in the establishment of the University 
of London, and was one of its Senate. Mr Brande was particu- 
larly distinguished as an expositor of science, as is testified by the 
success of his “ Manual of Chemistry,” which has passed through 
six editions, and has been translated into the leading foreign 
* Vol. x. p. 89. t Vol. xi. p. 79. J Vol. xiii. p. 214. 
