CAVENDISH SOCIETY. 
LONDON. 
President — Prof. Thomas Graham. 
Vice Presidents — Dr. Faraday, Prof. Brande, Sir Robert Kane, Arthur 
Aiken, and others. 
Council — Jabob Bell, Dr. Pereira, Dr. Golding Bird, Robert Warrington, 
Alfred S. Taylor, and others. 
Treasurer — Dr. Henry Beaumont Leeson. 
Secretary — Theophilus Redwood. 
The Cavendish Society was instituted for the promotion of Chemistry, 
and its allied sciences, by the diffusion of the literature of these subjects. 
The society effects its object by the translation of recent 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 with a re- 
munerative 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. 
Heretofore persons in this country were admitted to membership on ap- 
plication to Mr. Redwood the general Secretary of the Society, at London. 
To facilitate communication between the Society and its American members, 
the undersigned has been appointed Local Secretary, at Philadelphia, and to 
whom application should be made. The payment of five dollars U. S. Cur- 
rency or its equivalent, annually, entitles each member to a copy of every 
work published by the Society for the period during which their member- 
ship continues. No member shall be entitled to the Society's publications 
unless his annual subscription shall have been duly paid, and it is to be un- 
derstood that the charges for duty and freight on the books arising from their 
shipment to this country are to be paid to the Secretary on delivery. 
The number of Works published will necessarily depend on the number 
of annual subscribers; hence it is of great importance to the individual inter- 
est of the members that their aggregate number should be large. The So- 
ciety now issue two or three volumes yearly. The books are handsomely 
printed on a uniform plan, for members only^, their publication being con- 
ducted by the Council who are elected annually by Ballot from among the 
members; every member having a vote. 
Members by subscribing for all or any of the past years, may get the 
works issued during those years except the first volume published by the 
Society iu 1848 entitled "Chemical reports and Memoirs by Thomas Graham 
F. R. S." which is now out of print. The other volume of that year which 
is the 1st Volume of Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry, can be obtained by 
paying half the subscription. 
The subscribers for 1849 are entitled to the 2d and 3d volumes of Gme- 
lin's Chemistry — and the Life of Cavendish by Dr. George Wilson of Edin- 
burgh. The subscribers for 1850 receive the 4th and 5th volumes of Gme- 
lin's work, and those of the Current year will receive the 1st volume of 
Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry translated by Dr. Day, and the 6th 
volume of Gmelin. 
As the sole object of the Cavendish Society is the encouragement of an 
important branch of scientific literature, all who feel interested in Chemistry 
should assist in that object by subscribing, or using their influence with 
others to extend the list of members, which now amount to more than 850. 
All those who may desire to become members, to examine the works already 
issued, or to gain further information regarding the Society, are requested to 
apply to the undersigned. 
WILLIAM PROCTER, Jr. 
166 South 9th Street, Philadelphia. 
October, 1851. 
