oOG Literary and Philosophical Society, Hackney. 



this too small to be felt in nautical practice. Tt is a cnriositv 

 in science! and it is likewise worthy of being recorded 

 as a most gratifying instance of the powers and persevering 

 energies of the human mind. 



LVII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAI> SOCIETY, HACKNEY. 



J. HE first year's Report of this Society has just reached us ; 

 and it is but justice to the members to observe, that they 

 have shown conmiendable zeal and assiduity in promoting 

 the objects for which the Society was instituted. 



The Report, after stating the regulations of the Society, 

 presents an account of its origin, establishment, and labours. 



At the meetings, (held the firstTuesday of every month,) 

 besides routine business and conversations on objects con- 

 nected with the pursuits of the Society, the following papers 

 were read: 



On the Process of Tanning in England; and the Mode of 

 Rearing Black Cattle in South America : by Mr. David Booth 

 of Ncwbuigii, in Fifeshire, author of an Introduction to an 

 Analytical Dictionary of the English Language. 



An Account of the Wahabees, a Sect of Mahomedans, 

 generally accounted Deists under the Faith of the Arabian 

 Prophet : translated from the French by Mr. John Ellis 

 junior. 



On the Advantages of Mutual Intercourse among Literary 

 Institutions : by Mr. Ctenncll. 



ALiteraryPortraitureof France in the eigheenth Century: 

 a Translation from the French by Mr. William Fox jun. 



A Translation of part of the Preliminary Discourse to the 

 Account of " Arts and Manufactures," in the Encyclopcdie 

 Mctliodique, by Mr. John Peters. 



Observations made in visiting a large Copperas Work in 

 Northumberland : by " A Friend to Science and the useful 

 Arts:" tog' ther witli some Account of Muriatic Acid, drawn 

 up by Mr. John Sadler. 



On the Ouadrature of the Circle: by Mr. James Clark 

 of J^v'ewport, Isle of Wight. 



A Memoir of the Life of the late Professor Beatlie of 

 Aberdeen; drawn up for the Society by an intimate friend 

 of the Professor ; with some Introductory Observations by 

 Mr. Clennell. 



Several of these papers have since been published in the 



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