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to the mere detail of literarv intelligence and chemical con- 

 versations ; a principal part of their labour will devolve to the 

 practical depainnent of the laboratory. To accomplish this 

 as perfectly as possible, all the interesting discoveries, which 

 from time to time enrich the domain of chemistry, and par- 

 ticularly those complicated, expensive, and difficult experi- 

 ment;, which can be repeated by few individuals only, shall 

 be exhibited in their own laboratory ; being persuaded, that 

 important experimental inquiries, when once witnessed, sel- 

 dom fail to excite that degree of ardour which gives increas- 

 ing energy to scientific research. 



From this the Chemical Society will direct their attention 

 to all such original and specific experiments as may indivi- 

 dually be proposed, and the results they afford shall be mi- 

 nuted in the journal of the laboratory kept for that purpose, 

 and afterwards published in such a manner as may be di- 

 rected. These inquiries will embrace whatever is deemed 

 worthy of experimental research in the extensive departments 

 of philosophical, practical and technical chemistry. It is 

 perhaps needless to state, that their laboratory will be open 

 for the analvsis of ores, soils, manures, and such substances 

 in general as are found in the British dominions, and are 

 deemed of private or public importance. 



And, as it is certain that the progress as well as the accu- 

 rate and extensive ideas, which the cultivators of chemical 

 science may acquire, are greatly facilitated and promoted 

 bv attending to the manipulations and processes of the prac- 

 tical chemist; it is likewise intended, that all the multifa- 

 rious operations of the laboratory shall be regularly employed 

 for obtaining from the crude materials of nature, all those 

 substances which the society requires as instruments of re- 

 search, or as specimens of truths, as well as those articles 

 used in the chemical arts, and by manufacturers and artists. 

 This part of the views of the Chemical Society will consti- 

 tute a perpetual series of operations, well calculated to exhi- 

 bit a summary exposition of all the general and particular 

 processes of the scientific laboratory : — a consideration 

 highly important to the progress of real improvement. 



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