R E P ft T 



OF 



THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING 



OP THE 



CAVENDISH SOCIETY. 



THE Anniversary Meeting of the Cavendish Society for the year 

 1852 was held at the rooms of the Chemical Society, No. 5, 

 Cavendish Square, on Monday, the 1st of March, at three o'clock 

 in the afternoon. 



The Chair was taken by THOMAS GHAKAM, ESQ., F.R.S., 

 PRESIDENT, who called upon the Secretary to read 



THE REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



"!N reporting the result of their proceedings during the past 

 year, the Council are again enabled to congratulate the Members 

 on the continued prosperity and gradual extension of the Society. 



" Two books have issued for 1851, namely, the first volume of 

 LEHMANITS' Physiological Chemistry/ and the sixth volume of 

 GMELIN'S ' Hand-book.' The former of these works will be com- 

 pleted in three volumes, the second of which is now in progress, 

 and will constitute one of the books to be supplied to the Members 

 this year. The sixth volume of the Translation of GMELIN'S * Hand- 

 book* concludes the Inorganic part of this work, in the produc- 

 tion of which the Society has enriched the scientific literature 

 of the country with a complete and systematic exposition of the 

 existing state 01 knowledge upon the subject to which it relates. 

 The desire to make this work generally available to British Che- 

 mists was one of the motives which originally contributed to the 

 establishment of the Cavendish Society ; and the almost unanimous 



