SUBJECT MATTER

OF A

COURSE OF SIX LECTURES

ON THE

NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS.

BY

PROFESSOR FARADAY.

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DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION,
IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1852.

ARRANGED, BY PERMISSION, FROM THE LECTURER'S NOTES, LENT FOR THE OCCASION

BY

J. SCOFFERN, M.B.,

Late Professor of Chemistry at the Aldersgate College of Medicine

TO WHICH IS APPENDED,

REMARKS ON THE QUALITY AND TENDENCIES OF CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY, ON
ALLOTROPISM, AND OZONE; TOGETHER WITH MANIPULATIVE DETAILS
RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF EXPERIMENTS
INDICATED BY PROFESSOR FARADAY.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

MDCCCLIII.

LONDON: PETTER, DUFF, AND CO. PRINTERS,

PLAYHOUSE-YARD, BLACKFRIARS.

ΤΟ

WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE, ESQ.

OF THE ROYAL MINT,

F.R.S., M.R.I., &c. &c.

Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED, AS A SLIGHT MARK OF RESPECT AND ESTEEM,

BY

J. SCOFFERN.