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chemist; it is likewise intended, that all the multifarious ope- 

 rations of the laboratory, shall be regularly employed for ob- 

 taining from the crude materials of nature, all those substan- 

 ces which the society requires as instruments of research, or 

 as specimens of truths, as well as those articles used in the 

 chemical arts, and by manufaciu.ers and artists. This part 

 of the views of the Chemical Society will constitute a perpe^ 

 tual series of operations, well calculated to exhibit a summary 

 exposition of all the general and particular processes of the 

 scientific laboratory : a consideratioij highly important to the 

 progress of real improvement. 



To give effect to this undertaking, a regular laboratory is 

 already fitted up, arid an extensive collection of apparatus and 

 instruments will be procured, to ensure those auxiliary advan- 

 tages which are essential to the pursuit of the science. 



Such are the outlines of the plan to which the views of the 

 Chemical Society will be directed. A more particular detail 

 of rules and proceedings would be premature and superfluous. 

 It must nevertheless beremarked, that whatever encouxage- 

 ment the establishment may receive, the admission of subscri- 

 bers, is for the present limited to sixty, and the annual sub- 

 scription fixed at three guineas. 



- An unlimited number of gentlemen residing in the country 

 may be admitted as subscribers, on paying one guiuea an- 

 mially, which shall entitle them to visit the society as members, 

 whenever they reside in the capital, provided their stay in town 

 does not exceed three months. 



After the first meeting the admission of members shall be 

 decided by ballot, and those who are not inclined to adopt 

 the regulatioQS, then agreed upon by tlie majority of the^ sub- 

 scribers, shall have their subscription immediately returned. 



A code of laws will be formed, and proper officers elected 

 so as to form a regular society, which shall be denominated 

 tlie London Chemical Society. 



The admission of members is for the present confined to a 

 committee^ who on the present occasion, address the chemical 

 public, and request, that such gentlemen as are desirous of 

 becoming subscribers may favour them with their names, for 

 which purpose a book is opened at their laboratory, No. 11, 

 Old Compton Street, So/io. 



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