TO OUR READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. We have been favoured with Communications from Mr. Burnett, Mr. Kendal, and Mr. Jackson; they reached us too late for publication in the present Number. We have seen Mr. Quarrill's new Table Lamp, and decidedly prefer it to any of its predecessors, as being perfectly sinumbral; of an elegant form; and, what is most important, simple in its construction and management. The want of a proper drawing and section has prevented our giving a more detailed description of it. Our Correspondent at Tringham has furnished us with nothing new. The Letter on Agricultural Chemistry is reserved. In the Table of Contents to our last Volume, the Title of the following Paper was accidentally omitted: On the concealed Agency of Carbonic Acid in determining the - 262 ALBEMARLE Street. PLAN OF AN EXTENDED AND PRACTICAL COURSE OF LECTURES CHEMISTRY, DELIVERED IN THE LABORATORY OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, BY WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE, F.R.S. London and Edinburgh; Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, and of Chemistry and Materia Medica to the Apothecaries' Company; AND M. FARADAY, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., &c. These Lectures commence on the FIRST TUESDAY in OCTOBER, at Nine in the Morning, and are continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Two Courses are given during the Season, which begins in October and terminates in June. The Subjects comprehended in the Courses are treated of in the DIVISION I. following order*. OF THE POWERS AND PROPERTIES OF 1. Attraction-Crystallization-Chemical Affi- § 2. Heat-Its Influence as a Chemical Agent 3. Electricity-Its Laws and Connexion § 4. Radiant Matter. DIVISION II. OF UNDECOMPOUNDED SUBSTANCES, 1. Substances that support Combustion: Oxy. 2. Inflammable and Acidifiable Substances; Hydrogen-Nitrogen-Sulphur-Selenium Phosphorus-Carbon-Boron, § 3. Metals-and their Combinations, with the various Substances described in the early part of the Course. DIVISION III. VEGETABLE CHEMISTRY. 1. Chemical Physiology of Vegetables. 2. Modes of Analysis-Ultimate and Proximate Elements. 3. Processes of Fermentation, and their Products. DIVISION IV. CHEMISTRY OF THE ANIMAL 1. General Views connected with this De- 2. Composition and Properties of the Solids and Fluids of Animals. 3. Products of Disease. 4. Animal Functions. Mr. BRANDE'S MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY, intended as a Text Book to these Lectures, is published by Mr. Murray, Albemarle-Street; also a SERIES of TABLES of SPECIFIC GRAVITIES and DEFINITE PROPORTIONAL NUMBERS, for the use of Students. In the FIRST DIVISION of each Course, the principles and objects of Chemical Science, and the general Laws of Chemical Changes, are explained, and the phenomena of Attraction, and of Light, Heat, and Electricity developed, and illustrated by numerous Experiments. In the SECOND DIVISION, the undecompounded bodies are examined, and the modes of procuring them in a pure form, and of ascertaining their chemical characters, exhibited upon an extended scale.-The Lectures on the Metals include a succinct account of Mineralogy, and of the methods of analyzing and assaying Ores. This part of the Course will also contain a full examination of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; the Chemical Processes of the Pharmacopoeia will be particularly described, and compared with those adopted by the Manufacturer. The THIRD and FOURTH DIVISIONS relate to Organic Substances.-The Chemical Changes induced by Vegetation are here inquired into; the principles of Vegetables, the Theory of Fermentation, and the character of its Products are then examined. The CHEMICAL HISTORY of ANIMALS is the next object of inquiry-it is illustrated by an examination of their component parts in health, and in disease; by an inquiry into the Chemistry of Animal Functions, and into the application of Chemical Principles to the treatment of Diseases. The applications of Chemistry to the Arts and Manufactures, and to Economical Purposes, are discussed at some length in various parts of the Courses; and the most important of them are experimentally exhibited. The various operations of Analysis are also shown and explained. The Admission Fee to each Course is Four Guineas; or, by paying Eight Guineas, Gentlemen are entitled to attend for an unlimited time. Gentlemen, who are in actual attendance at the Medical and Anatomical Schools in London, are admitted to attend Two Courses of the above Lectures, upon the payment of Six Guineas. Life and Annual Subscribers to the Royal Institution are admitted to the above Lectures, on payment of Two Guineas for each Course; or, by paying Six Guineas, are entitled to attend for an unlimited time. Further Particulars may be had by applying to Mr. Brande, No. 20, Graftonstreet; or to Mr. Faraday, or Mr. Fincher, at the Royal Institution, Albemarlestreet. OCTOBER to DECEMBER, 1828. 237 Remarks on the Discovery of some Fossil Bones in France. By Of the Junction of Granite and Sandstone in Sutherland, and on the Lignite Formation of that District. By J. MAC CULLOCH, Observations on the Existence of Chlorine in the Native Per- oxide of Manganese, &c. By ROBERT JOHN Kane, Esq. On the Inland Navigation of the United States. Part III. Illustrations of the Manupeda, or Apes and their Allies; being the arrangement of the Quadrumana or Anthropomorphous Beasts indicated in Outline. By G. T. BURNETT, Esq. 274 286 292 300 On the Elevation of Water by the momentive Force of that Fluid in the Suction Pipe of a Pump. By R. ADDAMS, Esq. Remarks on some Remains of Elephants, lately found on the American Shore in Behring's Straits. By J. RANKING, Esq. Practical Comparison of different Tables of Mortality. In a Letter to Sir Edward Hyde East, Bart. M.P., F.R.S. The Newly-discovered Temple at Cadachio, in the Island of i. Elementary View of the Undulatory Theory of Light. ii. Remarks on Mr. HENDERSON'S Improvement on Dr. YOUNG'S method of computing the Longitude from the observed occultation of a fixed Star by the Moon: iii. Approximate Table of Equinoxes. H. J. iv. Principal Lunar Occultations of the Fixed Stars in the months of February and March, 1829, calculated |