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the positive. A paper from Thomas Pollock, Esq. was read, de- 

 scribing the deflections of the galvanometer, dependent on the change 

 of colour, &c. produced in certain liquids by the apphcation of heat 

 to one arm of a V tube contaimng them. The author concluded 

 that Dr. Black's law of capacity for heat wall enable us to explain 

 these electrical phsenomena. 



These papers will be printed m the " Proceedings" of the Society, 

 the first part of which \vill appeal- on the first of July. The Society 

 then adjourned to Tuesday, May 18th. 



CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



On the 23rd of February, 184 1, a meeting was held (in the rooms of 

 the Society of Arts, the use of which had been kindly granted for the 

 purpose,) of gentlemen desirous of imiting themselves for the pur- 

 pose of forming a Chemical Society. At that meeting the following 

 gentlemen were appointed as a Provisional Committee for carrying 

 this object into effect. 



Messrs. A. Aikin, W. T. Brande, H. J. Brooke, J. T. Cooper, 

 J. Cumming, J. F. Daniell, T. Everitt, T. Graham, W. R. Grove, 

 H. Hennell, G. Lowe, R. Ponett, R. Warington. 



Mr. Warington, by whom the requisite preliminary arrangements 

 had been made, was appointed Secretary to the Provisional Com- 

 mittee. 



A number of gentlemen engaged in the practice or pursuit of che- 

 mistry having been invited by the Pro^^sional Committee to become 

 original members, the first meeting of the Society took place, also in 

 the rooms of the Society of Arts, on the 30th of March, Professor 

 Graham in the Chair. — The minutes of the previous meeting, held 

 on the 23rd of February, having been read and confirmed, the follow- 

 ing report of the Pro\'isional Committee was brought up and adopt- 

 ed, with amendments, for the present government of the Society. 



AMENDED REPORT OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. 



Name and Objects of the Society. — That the Society be designated 

 the Chemical Society of London. 



That tliis Society is instituted for the advancement of Chemistry 

 and those branches of science immediately connected with it. 



For this purpose periodical meetings of its members shall be held 

 for the commimication and discussion of discoveries and obsen'ations 

 relating to such subjects ; an account of which shall be pubHshed from 

 time to time, by the Society, in the form of Proceedings or Transac- 

 tions. 



That the formation of a hbrary of books relating to its proper 

 subjects, of a museum of chemical preparations and standard instru- 

 ments, and the estabhshment of a laboratory of research, are also ul- 

 terior objects of the Society. 



Constitution of the Society. — That the Society consist of Ordinary 

 Members, Foreign Members, and Associates. The government of 

 the Society to be vested in the ordinary members only. 



That all persons who have received the circular of the provisioQal 



