Excerpt from Air and Its Relations to Life: Being With Some Additions the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered in the Summer of 1874 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Prof. Bloxam's work on Chemistry' will recog nise some of the experimental illustrations and wood-cuts employed. I have to acknowledge that my constant intercourse and friendship with him have given me advantages of which I have availed myself. New illustrations, through the liberality of Messrs. Longmans, have been engraved by Mr. Collings from my own drawings, but for some of those in Chapter IV. My thanks are due to the Council of the Royal Society. The favour ac corded to the short course of lectures which I had the honour of delivering at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in the summer of 1874, and the subsequent enquiries as to their issue in a printed form, has been the chief inducement to their rearrangementt and publication. Furthermore, having been struck with the very general want of knowledge in this country, even among Scientific men, of the work accomplished by that celebrated French chemist, Pasteur, I thought that to make his labours more widely known would greatly pro mote, scientific truth and accuracy.

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