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after having once more repeated them, in order to determine the proportions \vith more, 

 certainty and precifion. The refearches of niineralogifts and chemifts will foon inform 

 us whether tellurium is likewlfe met with in other places, or whether ature has ex- 

 Clufively appropriated this metal to the gold mines of Tranfylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS, AND ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. 

 American News. 



JLN confideration of the general utility that would refult from the citizens of the United 

 States being enabled to procure, free from expence, an analyGs of any ores, or mineral fub- ' 

 fiances, "The Chemical Society of Philadelphia," on the aoth of June 1797, pafled the fol- 

 lowing Refolution : 



" Refolved, 

 . *' That a Committee of five Members be appointed, whofe bufmefs it fiiall be to notify 

 in the different papers of the United States, and by circular letters, that they will give an 

 analyfis of all minerals which may be fent them." 



In conformity to the above refolution, they have given notice that they will analyze any 

 mineral which may be fent them, provided it be forwarded free of expence, Snd accompa- 

 »icd with an account of the place and fituation in which it was found. 



Committee. 

 Thomas Smith, No. 19, North Fifth Street. 

 James Woodhoufe, No. 13, Cherry Street. 

 Samuel Cooper, No. 178, South Front Street, 

 Adam Seybert, No. 191, North Second Street.- 

 John C. Otto, No. 37, North Fourth Street. 



Profeflbr Barton of Philadelphia, who has lately publifhed a fmall traiSl: on the Vegetable 

 Materia Medica of our country, is preparing for the prefj a work to be entitled " Stric- 

 tures on the Arrangement of the Materia Medica, adopted by Dr. Darwin in his 

 Zoonomia." 



January 19, 179^- The American Philofophical Society held their annual ele£tion of 

 officers on the firft. Friday of this inftant, when the following were doly choien : • 

 ' Prefident— The Hon. Thomas Jefferfon. 



Vice-Prefidents— Nicholas Collin, D. D. Dr. Benjamin Rufli, and Dr. Cafpar Wiftar. 



Treafurer — Mr. John Vaughan. 



Secretaries— Samuel Magaw, D. D. Dr. Adam Seybert, Dr. J. C. James, and Mr. 



Sauiuel H. Smith. 

 Curators— Mr. Charles W. Peale, Dr. Benjamin S. Barton, and Mr. Robert Patterfon. 

 Clafs of Counfellors for three years— Mr. Jonathan B. Smith, Dr. William Currie^ 

 William Smith, D. D. and Mr. Jonathdn Williams, two years from Janu;iry 1798. 



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