149 London Philosophical Society. 



appears to be the only part of Europe in which this metal 

 occurs under these circumstances. The peculiar variety 

 called wood tin has hitherto onlv been met with in these 

 beds, or stream-works as they are termed in the coimtrv ; 

 and these have also furnished the only specimens of gold 

 hitherto found in Cornwall. 



Among the specimens of tin in the collection of Mr. 

 Phillips, it may be observed occurring in granite, in mica 

 slate, and in other varieties of schist, accompanied by 

 dilorite, tourmaline, calcareous spar, schicfer spar, topaz, 

 calcedony, quartz, fluor spar, and clorophane; yellow cop- 

 per ore, blende, arsenical pyrites, and wolfram. 



The following Donations were received : 



Statistical Accounts of the Cnunties of Cork and Antrim. 



From the right honourable the Dublin Society. 

 Exotic Mineralogy, Nos. 1 to 6. From .James Sowerby, 



Esq. the author, Member of the Geol(;gical Society. 

 Hisloire Naturelle de la France Meridionale, par M. I'Abbe 



Giraud Soulavie, 6 vols. Svo. From Dr. Laird, Mciut 



ber of G. S. 

 Specimens from Northumberland. From the Hon. Henry 



Grey Bcnnet, Member of G. S. 

 Specimens from Ireland. From G. B. Greenough, Esq. 



President of G. S. 



LO>iDON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY". 



The objects of this Society are, according to its Prospec- 

 tus, "those of every man who loves inipruvement : — to foster 

 genius, to eradicate unphilosophic prejudice, to increase 

 the knowledge of nature, and most, of man ; to destroy, as 

 much as possible, that false definiticm of words which has 

 been justly reprobated by Locke and Bacon as the origin of 

 sophistry and misconception ; but, above all, to remove that 

 barrier erected by pedantry ai2;ainst universal knowledge, 

 which has introduced an esprit de corps into philosophy, 

 and rendered it .the territory of a sect rather than the j)ro- 

 vince of ihc world." 



The means which they adopt to effect these desirable pur- 

 poses are, principally by the production of lectures in every 

 department of philosophy, excepting theology and poli- 

 ties; and by a rigorous subsequent exaniination, in which 

 Truth is the soliiary object of devotion, and the inductive 

 system of Bacon the portal to her shrine. This principle 

 of responsibility imposed on the lecturer we believe to be 

 perfectly original j and the good resulting from it must be 



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