SClE^fTinC NEWS. S69 



lablished to obtain the earliest and best information respecting Chemical so* 

 whatever sliall offer itself as new and important in the depart- ^^^^y* 

 meats of chemistry, of natural philosophy, and the arts and 

 manufactures, which are dependent on these branches of know- 

 ledge. To keep pace with the existing state of chemical 

 science, the intelligence thus collected shall be regularly de- 

 tailed in their respective meetings; and a book of reference 

 kept as a register, containing the growing mass of philosophi- 

 cal information, which will be laid on the table for the use of 

 the members ; together with all those publications and, acade- 

 mical journals of repute, which exhibit the transactions of iu' 

 genious men in every part of the world. 



The views of this society however will not be confined to the 

 mere detail of literary intelligence and chemical conversations ^ 

 a principal part of their labour will devolve to the practical de- 

 partment of the laboratory. To accomplish this as perfectly 

 as possible, all the interesting discoveries, which from time to 

 time enrich the domain of chemistry, and particularly those 

 complicated, expensive, and difficult experiments, which can be 

 repeated by few individuals only, shall be exhibited in their 

 own laboratory; being persuaded, that important experimen- 

 tal inquiries, when once witnessed, seldom fail to excite that 

 degree of ardour which gives increasing energy to scientific 

 research. 



From this the Chemical Society will direct their attention to 

 all such original and specific experiments, as may individually 

 be proposed, and the results they afford shall be minuted in 

 the journal of the laboratory, kept for that purpose, and after- 

 wards published in such a manner as may be directed. These 

 inquiries will embrace whatever is deemed worthy of experi- 

 mental research in the extensive departments of philosophical, 

 practical, and technical chemistry. It is perhaps needless to 

 state, that their laboratory will be open for the analysis of 

 ores, soils, manures, and such substances in general as are 

 found in the British dominions, and are deemed of private or 

 public importance. 



And, as it is certain that the progress, as well as the accu- 

 rate and extensive ideas, which the cultivators of chemical 

 science may acquire, are greatly facilitated and promoted, by 

 attending to the manipulations, and processes of the practical 



chemist ; 



