A Manual of Chemistry

A

MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY;

CONTAINING

:

THE PRINCIPAL FACTS OF THE SCIENCE, ARRANGED IN THE

ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE DISCUSSED AND ILLUSTRATED

IN THE LECTURES AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
OF GREAT BRITAIN.

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BY

WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE,

Secretary of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution of Great Britain; Professor
of Chemistry and Materia Medica to the Society of Apothecaries
of the City of London; Honorary Member of the Literary and
Philosophical Society of New York; and of the Physico-
Medical Society of Erlangen.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

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TO

CHARLES HATCHETT, Esq., F.R.S., &c. &c.

MY DEAR SIR,

TO You, as my first instructor in Chemistry, and as one whose researches in the Science have exalted your name to a high station among British Chemists, I beg leave to dedicate the following Work; trusting that you will receive it as a testimony of the gratitude and respect with which I shall always remain,

Your faithful Friend,

and affectionate Son-in-Law,

WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE.

London, April 19, 1819.