CAVENDISH SOCIETY. 
LONDON. 
President — Prof. Thomas Graham. 
Vice Presidents— Dr. Faraday. Prof, Brande, Sir Robert Kane, Arthur Aiken, 
and others. 
Council — Jacob 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 pub- 
lication of valuable original works which would not otherwise be printed, from the 
slender chance of their meeting with a remunerative 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 application 
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. Currency or its equivalent, 
annually, entitles each member to a copy of every work published by the Society 
for the period during which their membership 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 understood 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 interest of the mem- 
bers that their aggregate number should be large. The Society now issue two or 
three volumes yearly. The books are handsomely printed on a uniform plan, fnr 
members only, their publication being conducted 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 work issued 
during those years except the first volume published by the Society in 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 Hand- 
book of Chemistry, can be obtained by paying half the subscription. 
The subscribers for 1849 are entitled to the 2d and 3d volumes of Gmelin's Che- 
mistry — and the Life of Cavendish by Dr. George W 7 ilson of Edinburgh. The 
subscribers for 1850 receive the 4th and 5th volumes of Gmelin's work, those for 
1851 receive the 1st volume of Lehmann's Physiological Chemistry translated by 
Dr. Day, and the 6th volume of Gmelin ; and those for the Current year 1852, will 
probably receive the 1st vol. of Gmelin's Organic Chemistry and the 2d vol of Leh- 
mann's Phys. Chemistry, or the 1st vol. of Bischofs Elements of Chemical and 
Physical Geology. 
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. 
June, 1852. 
