86 Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin. 



To give effect to this undertaking, a regular laboratory is 

 already fitted up, and an extensive collection of apparatus 

 and instruments will be procured, to ensure those auxiliary 

 advantages which are essential to the pursuit of the science. 



Such are the outlines of the plan to which the views of 

 the Chemical Society will be directed. A more particular 

 detail of rules and proceedings would be premature and super- 

 fluous. It must, nevertheless, be remarked, that whatever 

 encouragement the establishment may receive, the admis- 

 sion of subscribers is, for the present, limited to sixty, and 

 the annual subscription fixed at three guineas. 



An unlimited number of gentlemen, residing in the coun- 

 try, may be admitted as subscribers, on paying one guinea 

 annually, which shall entitle them to visit the Society as 

 members whenever they reside in the capital, provided their 

 stay in town does not exceed three months. 



After the first meeting the admission of members shall 

 be decided by ballot, and those, who are not inclined to adopt 

 the regulations then agreed upon by the majority of the sub- 

 scribers, shall have their subscription immediately returned. 



A code of laws will be formed, and proper officers elected 

 so as to form a regular society, which shall be denominated 

 The London Chemical Society. 



The admission of members is for the present confined to 

 a committee, who, on the present occasion, address the 

 chemical public, and request, that such gentlemen as afe 

 desirous of becoming subscribers may favour them with 

 their names, for which purpose a book is opened at their 

 Laboratory, No. 11, Old Compton-street, Soho. 



ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BERLIN. 



At a late meeting M. Klaproth read an essay on the che- 

 mical properties of the datholith, a fossil newly discovered 

 in Norway : its constituent parts are 36± of silex, 35^- of 

 lime, and 4 of water. 



ACADEMY OP USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AT ERFURT. 



At the meeting of the above academy on the 4th of March 

 last, an essay of professor Tromsdorff's was read under the 



title 



