Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Mainly lectures and addresses which have already appeared in print but are here altered and corrected where necessary Robert Boyle. -- Joseph Priestly. -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele. -- Henry Cavendish. -- James Watt. -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. -- Priestley, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and La révolution chimique. -- Michael Faraday. -- Thomas Graham. -- Friedrich Wöhler. -- Jean Baptiste André Dumas. -- Hermann Kopp. -- Victor Meyer. -- Dmitri Ivanowitsh Mendeleeff. -- Stanislas Cannizzaro. -- The rise and development of synthetical chemistry. -- On the progress of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland during the nineteenth century. -- On the development of the chemical arts during the reign of Queen Victoria