COFFINISM.
CAMPHOR AS A STIMULANT.
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CAVENDISH SOCIETY.
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 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 members 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, for 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 works 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 Handbook 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 Chemistry—and the Life of Cavendish by Dr. George Wilson of Edinburgh. The subscribers for 1850 receive the 4th and 5th volumes of Gmelin’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 amounts 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.
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