THE FARADAY LECTURESHIP IN THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
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At page 20, line 6 from bottom, for 10-14 read 11-14. 
„ 130, line 17 from bottom, for 57 read 37. 
„ 150, line 9 from bottom, for 8 read 28. 
„ 193, line 4 from top, for PbC 2 H 3 0 2 read Pb 2 C 4 H 6 0 5 . 
„ 400, bottom line, for Tart. Dil. read Tart. 
,, 27, between lines 8 and 9 from bottom, insert Emplastrum Can- 
tharidis. 
„ 51, between lines 5 and 6 from bottom, insert Tinctura Cinchonge 
Composita. 
„ 51, between lines 6 and 7 from bottom, insert Spiritus Armoracice 
Compositus. 
„ 114, beneath bottom line insert Unguentum Belladonnse. 
,, 171, after line 11 from top, insert Oleum Lini. 
„ 231, between lines 3 and 4 from top, insert Suppositoria Plumbi Com¬ 
posita. 
„ 304, bottom line, for 1 drachm read 60 grains. 
„ 305, line 13 from top, for 1 drachm read 60 grains. 
MUNIFICENT ENDOWMENT OF A SCHOOL FOP THE STUDY 
OF PPACTICAL CHEMISTRY. 
Mr. James Young, the late proprietor of the extensive works at Bathgate, 
near Glasgow, and manufacturer of paraffin and paraffin oils, whose name, iu 
fact, is intimately associated with this manufacture as the discoverer of the pro¬ 
cess by which these valuable products have for many years been produced from 
certain varieties of coal, is stated to have presented the sum of £10,000 to the 
Andersonian Institution, Glasgow, for the endowment of a school to be devoted 
to the study of practical chemistry. 
THE FARADAY LECTURESHIP IN THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
The Chemical Society, having recently founded a Lectureship, partly com¬ 
memorative of a late distinguished Fellow of the Society, Professor Faraday, 
and partly with the view of promoting intercourse and interchange of ideas be¬ 
tween eminent foreign chemists and the chemists of this country, invited M. 
Dumas, of Paris, to deliver the first of these lectures, which it is expected will 
be followed by others from year to year. The great celebrity of Dumas’ name, 
associated as it has been for half a century with various departments of theore¬ 
tical and applied chemistry, and also with pharmacy (for he was originally a 
pharmacien), caused much interest to be felt in connection with this inaugural 
address, and as the new building which the Government is erecting for the 
Chemical Society at Burlington House is not yet completed, the use of the 
lecture-theatre of the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street was obtained for 
this occasion. The first address of the Faraday Lecturer was thus very appro¬ 
priately delivered within the walls where Faraday and his early associates Sir 
Humphry Davy and Dr. Thomas Young had so often addressed crowded and 
aristocratic audiences. 
The lecture was delivered on Thursday, the 17th of June, and the theatre was 
well filled with a highly appreciative audience ; the fact of its being in a foreign 
language however, no doubt limited the attendance and prevented many from 
enjoying the rich intellectual feast which was thus provided. 
The chair was taken by Professor Williamson, President of the Chemical 
