gS5 Britt/h Mlneraloglcal Society, 



mlnernl (lifiriol ; the fcienii fie and technical terms are per- 

 petually at variance, and give rife to innumerable errors. A 

 reform in the language of the ntiners, how defn-able foever, 

 is yet wholly imprafticable ; bat the Society expefts to render 

 no frnail fervice to future mineralogies, by collecting from 

 Cornwall, from Wales, from Dcrbyfliire, and other didrifts, 

 full and accurate lids of the miner's terms, accompanied by 

 illudrative fpccimens, the former of which, in due lime, will 

 be laid before the public, and the latter will be pieferved in 

 the SociiHv's cabinet as authorities, to which a liberal accefs 

 will at all times be allowed. 



When it is rccoHcfted how often valuable ores, by appear- 

 ing under an unufual form, or by prefenting difficulties in 

 their analyfis that are not to be overcome by the common 

 methods, are ncg!e6lcd and thrown afide ; it will not be 

 deemed a triflins; objecl in the JN'Iiueralogical Society to un- 

 dertake the analyfis of fpecimens of this del'criplion. All 

 fuch will be gratuitoufly analyled, provided the conditions 

 already fpeciiied in the circular letters of the Society * are 

 ftriiftly complied with. 



The above are the leading views of the Britifh ]\Iineralo- 

 gical Society, and will always occupy the principal part of 

 its attention. It is by no means, however, intended to neg- 

 left other obje6ls : the examination of minerals which have 

 been either not at all, or but imperfe6fly inveftigated, will 

 occafionally form a part of its employment, and every occur- 

 rence that throws light upon the diflicult fubjeft of chemical 

 analyfis will be carefully regillered in the books of the Society. 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



A. Aikin, prefident. 

 W. H. Pepys, fecretary. 

 C. R. Aikin, fecretary for correfpondence. 

 Members in Ordinary. 

 W. Allen. R. A. Cox. 



A. Tilloch. P. Sandman. 



R. Knight. R. Stocker. 



Th. Cox. C. Lynam. 



Dr. Babington. R. Bingley. 



R. Phillips. 



Cor ref ponding Members. 

 R. Kirwan, Efq. P. R.I. A. Dublin. 

 W. Henry, Efq. Manchefter. 

 D. Mufliet, Calder Iron-Works, N. B. 

 L. Dillwyn, Efq. Walthamftow. 



"* See PhUofophical Magaiine, vol. vi. p. 369* and vol. ix. p. aSz. 



Rev, 



