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lays never redeemed, they are also sources of scientific and pecuniary inte- 
rest to him ; but we cannot but view that " longing after something new/' 
which induces some practitioners to neglect standard and well understood 
agents, as one of the evidences of the uncertainty of Medicine. 
The Cavendish Society. — Perhaps many of our readers are not aware of 
the existence of this Society, much less of the advantages from membership 
in it. It is one of a number of associations that have sprung into existence 
within a few years past, in England with the object of promoting the cir- 
culation of scientific literature. The design of the Cavendish Society, 
bearing as it does the name of an eminent chemist of the last century, has 
more specially a chemical direction. The following extracts from the laws 
of the Society will afford an explanation of its intentions. 
" I. The Cavendish Society is instituted for the promotion of Chemistry 
and its allied Sciences, by the diffusion of the literature of these subjects. 
"II. The Object of the Society will be effected by the translation of re- 
cent works and papers of merit ; by the publication of valuable original 
works which would not otherwise be printed from the slender chance of 
their meeting a remunerating sale ; and by the occasional republication, or 
translation, of such ancient or earlier modern works as may be considered 
interesting or useful to the Members of the Society. 
" III. The Society shall consist of an unlimited number of members. 
" IV. The subscription constituting a Member shall be one guinea ; to be 
paid in advance on the 1st day of January in each year; for which he 
shall be entitled to a copy of every work published by the Society for the 
year for which he subscribes. 
"V. The Officers of the Society shall be elected from the Members; and 
shall consist of a President, twelve Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, 
and a Council of sixteen. The power of framing by-laws, and of directing 
the affairs of the Society, shall be vested in the Council. 
" XVI. The Council shall select the works to be published by the Socie- 
ty, and shall make all arrangements, pecuniary or otherwise, in regard to 
editing, translating, preparing works for the press, printing, &c. 
" XXI. Members shall have the privilege of proposing works for publica- 
tion, and shall address their propositions to the Council. 
" XXIII. No Member shall be entitled to receive the Society's publica- 
tions unless his annual subscription shall have been duly paid. 
"XXIV. The works of the Society shall be handsomely printed on an uni- 
form plan for Members only." 
At the annual meeting of the Cavendish Society held in London, on the 
1st of March last, the following officers were elected, viz: 
President — Professor Graham, F. R. S. 
Vice Presidents— Arthur Aikin, F. G. S., Professor Brande, F. R. S., 
Earl of Burlington, F. R. S., Sir James Clark, M. D., F. R. S., Professor 
T. Clark, M. D., Walter Crura, F .R. S., Michael Faraday, D. C. L., F. R. S., 
