| CHAPTER | PAGE |
| I.—Penzance: 1778–1798 | 9 |
| II.—The Pneumatic Institution, Bristol: 1798–1801 | 26 |
| III.—The Pneumatic Institution, Bristol: 1798–1801 (continued) | 54 |
| IV.—The Royal Institution | 66 |
| V.—The Chemical Laboratory of the Royal Institution | 90 |
| VI.—The Isolation of the Metals of the Alkalis | 110 |
| VII.—Chlorine | 134 |
| VIII.—Marriage—Knighthood—“Elements of Chemical Philosophy”—Nitrogen Trichloride—Fluorine | 155 |
| IX.—Davy and Faraday—Iodine | 173 |
| X.—The Safety Lamp | 192 |
| XI.—Davy and the Royal Society—His Last Days | 213 |