An introductory discourse on the objects and advantages of educational lectures, in connection with the London Institution / delivered by Alfred Smee.
- Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877.
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An introductory discourse on the objects and advantages of educational lectures, in connection with the London Institution / delivered by Alfred Smee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Tlie Managers of the London Institution will spare no expense and no trouble to render these Lectures interesting and instructive to you. The more you desire the more are they prepared to give you, as it was the only wish of the great merchants who founded this noble Institution, that it should like the sun send forth its light upon aU who desire to partake of its genial influence. It is, however, not only the observation of simple objects which is important, but the changes which each object undergoes must be carefully noted. We see the egg of an insect hatched into a caterpillar; the caterpillar gTOw till it spins its web, and turns into a chrysalis; and the chrysalis finally lose its case and become the beautiful butterfly. This forms a palpable series of changes, the order of which your memory is not Likely to alter; but changes continually occur in all bodies, and these changes you must be very careful to note in the order in which they occur. In Chemistry the transmutations of matter under various circumstances are of the most extraordinary character. The beautiful pigment called Prussian-Blue is but a change of offensive animal-matter, potash and iron. Some of our scents and flavours also, as the oil of Pine-apple and the oil of the delicious Ripstone Pippin, are the products of chemical changes from fusel oil, a most oflTensive product in the distillation of s])irit. In acquiring a knowledge of these changes, the Educational Lectures at the London Institution will be of great service to you. We have a Laboratory with all necessary materials, and every form of apparatus is at our com- mand, which may be required to illustrate the different subjects. A Lecture would frequently cost a large sum of money, were not the apparatus at hand, or could it](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22334531_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
