A CHAPTER IN THE GERM THEORY. 
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THE CHEMISTEY OF CAEBON. 
Part II. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY DR. OXLAND, F.O.S. 
(Read December 8th, 1881.) 
The Lecturer described some of the principal combinations of 
carbon with sulphur, chlorine, hydrogen and oxygen, and con- 
sidered some of the principal features of its economy in nature and 
art. 
A CHAPTEK IN THE GEEM THEOEY. 
SYLLABUS OP LECTURE BY DR. W. CASH REED. 
(Read 15th December, 1881.) 
1. Introduction, (a) "Clean dirt." (b) Minuteness of germs 
no argument against their existence. 2. Fermentation, (a) Putre- 
faction is fermentation, (b) A sweet foul odour — no paradox. 
3. Effects of certain chemical substances upon the putrefactive 
process. 4. Germ cultivation, (a) Pasteur's researches in culti- 
vation, (b) Taming the invisible. 5. Distribution of germs in 
the atmosphere. A verification of some of the results obtained by 
Tyndall and Koch. The lecture was illustrated by cultivated germs, 
and microscopic specimens of life derived from germs. 
