332 Analysis of Scientific Books. 



The Members of the Society chosen into the Council were 



Wm. Babinglon, M.D., 

 , F. Baily, Esq., 



J. G. Cliildren, Esq., 



Viscount Dudley and Ward., 



J. F. W. Herschel, Esq., 



Capt. H. Kater, Esq., 



T. A, Knight, Esq., 



A. Mac Leay, Esq., 



Sir T. S. Raffles, 



The Duke of Somerset. 



Officers for the Ensuing Year. 



President. — Sir H. Davy, Bart. 



Treasuueu. — D. Gilbert, Esq. 



c fW. T. Brande, Esq. 



Secretaries. { j_ p ^y u,,,,^,,^^ \^^ 



Thursday, Dec. 9. — ^This meeting was chiefly occupied with 

 reading the minutes of proceedings on the anniversary. Three 

 large volumes of astronomical observations made at Paramatta, in 

 New South Wales, were received from Sir Thomas Brisbane, to 

 whom the thanks of the Society were ordered for them. 



Art. XIV. ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 



I. An Explanatory Dictionary of the Apparatus and Instruments 

 einployed in the various Operations of Philosophical and Experimen- 

 tal Chemistry ; loith seventeen quarto copper-plates. By a Prac- 

 tical Chemist. London, 1824, pp. 295. 



A GOOD Dictionary descriptive of chemical apparatus, and of the 

 modes of using it, would be an invaluable acquisition to the labora- 

 tory of the young practical chemist, and if executed by a person 

 of capability and experience, would be of infinite use to the manu- 

 facturer and artisan. But it unfortunately happens that those 

 who are most dexterous in the management of the utensils and 

 processes of practical chemistry, are almost always the least willing 

 and often the least able to transfer their knowledge and experience 

 to others through the means of the press ; indeed the communication 

 of much of such information is often impossible; in the nicest ana- 

 lytical processes how much depends upon skill and tact in col- 



