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The following are the dates in the weekly series for the period or periods covered by this Volume for which there is no minute of a meeting and no note of an adjournment in the previous min- ute, i.e., the unexplained gaps in the series.

The symbol X means that there is a note in the Journal Book that no meet- ing was held on that date.

The symbol XX means that there is an unexplained gap in the Journal Book (and, where relevant, the Rough Minutes) also.

No symbol at all means that there is a minute of a meeting on that date in the Journal Book.

The symbol means that there is a minute of a meeting on that date in the Journal Book and also in the Rough Min- utes.

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30 Nov 1689

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borrowd 3^d Journall RH. Mar.12.86 returned Aprill 2

Lent M^r Hook Journall 4 Aprill 2.86. lent him more Journall 6.

M^r Waller a paper of S^r Theod. Mayerns about Kermes.

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2.3 4.3 8.6

This book of Minutes contains of rough Minutes taken at y^e Meetings, most of which (drawn up more amply in order to their reading an y^e subsequent Days, and their entry into y^e Journals of R.S.) are to be found in y^e guard-books of Original Minutes N^o Vol. 4 & first part of Vol. 9.

T.S. June 15:1734.

N.B. The fair original Draughts of several of these rough Minutes are however not to be found: as I have specified by notes put in y^e respective places, with references to this book.

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borrowd 3^d Journall RH. Mar.12.86 returned Aprill 2

Lent M^r Hook Journall 4 Aprill 2.86. lent him more Journall 6.

M^r Waller a paper of S^r Theod. Mayerns about Kermes.

2/3 3/4

2.3 4.3 8.6

This book of Minutes contains of rough Minutes taken at y^e Meetings, most of which (drawn up more amply in order to their reading an y^e subsequent Days, and their entry into y^e Journals of R.S.) are to be found in y^e guard-books of Original Minutes N^o Vol. 4 & first part of Vol. 9.

T.S. June 15:1734.

N.B. The fair original Draughts of several of these rough Minutes are however not to be found: as I have specified by notes put in y^e respective places, with references to this book.

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MS_575_007 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-03-10 Williamson; Joseph Sr. Joseph Williamson

— M^r Aston gave in the root mentioned by M^r Justell and

— No account of the way of bringing air under water on the Register.

— Part of Leewenhoeck Lre

— L^d Vaughan said there was a well in Caermarthen there that ebbs and flows of which he was pleased to promise a further account

— A paper from M^r Woldridg of petersfeld in Hamshire brought in by M^r Houghton was read I in part and but it being long it was reford to D^r Slare to read it and give a report of it.

—∗ Querie the account and of the experiment made at the well at Bamsteed downs about Doctor 1665.

— S^r Robert Gourdon said that in Scotland the lake Ness and the river of the same name never freeses

— This occasioned much discourse of the cause of Fountaines, and D^r Robinson was of opinion that steames occasioned by a subterrane all heat, either of fire or M^r Hook said that the brass lumps or pyrites will ea catch fire by moisture and that by that means a heap of Coals were fired at Charing Staires ∗∗ Ordered that the Experiment of consuming the smoke be tried before y^c society.

M^r Hook account of perpend in witeny next day

M^r Waller presented three sticks of Indian wax.

∗∗ Two notes from M^r Justell about an Engine that consumes the smoke, and presents all sents of the th most fœtid things cast into the fire were read as likewise a paper about making of steel soals for shoes to preserve the feet upon the stones.

M^r Papin showed a further experiment of shooting by means of a Cylinder exterminated of div being much longer then the former byut the effect was not sensibly more considerable

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-03-17

D^r Slare gave an abstract of M^r Worledg his paper about the originall of springs and fountains which was read

Two notes from M^r Justell were read about a further account of the Engine that consumes smoak, and of A Period Book whose tille he sent in closed.

M^r Hook showed the demonstration of his manner of setting a small Instrum perpendiculars but promised again to bring in an account therf in writing for the next day with the application theref.

M^r Papin brought in a paper about a way to fire Gunpowder in Vacuo Without the gunn but it being late it was referred as likewise the Experiment ther of till the next Meeting. the Letter part of M^r Lewinhocks letter ordered to be read the next day

MS_575_008 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-03-24 Williamson; Joseph Sr. Joseph Williamson

M^r Haughton was derived to thank M^r Wowlidy.

M^r Hook about opinion about the Engine that consumer smoake

Querie for a seed in Denmark that lcathes fire very easily.

A Note from M^r Justell.

A tre from M^r S^r George Ashe

Ordered to Answer it and give him and M^r Molineux an account of their being chosen of the society.

A paper from S^r William Petty, about his thoughts of a Compleat treatise of the Navigation.

M^r Aubrey gave an account, that there are a sett of Six sheets of sea fights, done by M^r Hollar and it was ordered that they should be gotten for the society.

M^r Lodowick was desired to translate a tre of M^r Leewinhoeck, being about his Microscopicall observations upon Cinnaber and Gunpowder.

M^r Hook at the desire of the Councell brought in an Analysis of the whole matter of Hydrographie, of which he had given a fair Copie to the president and promised to give in another for the society.

D^r Gale said that the Romans never used picth or tarr in their shipping but made use only of Wax.

M^r Hook said he remonitred to have read somewhere that they mixed with their Wax the dreggs of Oyle called Amurca, but that he could not at this time recollect his Author.

D^r Gale said that Tarr is of no great Antiquity and that their is no lattne Word for it but that Michaell Psellus a greek author mentions it about 1000 years since.

M^r Hook illustrated further his contrivance for setting a small instrument of the Society.

M^r Reisells Lre of the 12^th of February. was produced and orderd to be read next day.

M^r Papins Experiment refertd to the next meeting.

MS_575_009 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-03-31 Wyche; Cyril Sr. Cyrill Wiche

M^r Henshaw was of opinion that the generation of Moltalls cannot be acc- ounted for without a contrall fire.

To enqure of M^r Justell about the sulpter of the plant mentioned in his last M^r Henshaw mentioned to have formerly brought in an Alga Sacchariffera from Ireland

M^r Aubrey gave an account that S^r Jonas more had caused severall curious obser vations about the hight of the tides at London bridge to be made which he concrete might be in the hands of M^r Flamsteed and or Capt. Hanaway S^r Jonas's Son in Law desid that S^r John Hoskins would please to enquire after the hight and time of the tide at Chepstow bridg.

To desire that the president please to get Capt Collins to communicate his observations of the tides in the severall parts and at the Hoadlands.

M^r Henshaw said that Tarr is the first running of the making of pitch and that the latter part being higher boyled makes the stone pitch and that the description of the making it is in pline who calls it pix liquid a. lib 16 cap 11

M^r Houghton showed a part of an animall shooting strong of musk and said by the owner therof to be a musk cod, it was cut in 2 places and seemed to have within it two cavities.

— M^r Hill told the society that

M^r Hook told the relation of his firing Gunpowder in vacuo.

M^r Henshaw was of opinion that the exhalations and sleams of the earth are the constiment parts of the air.

M^r Papin shewed his Experiment of Firring gunpowder in Vacuo, but it not succeeding it was ordered he should p

Halley brought in same shells or substances resembling small beacks of Birds found in Ambergreece M^r Hook belived them to be the shells of some such insects as the Scanbeus nasicornis M^r Henshew belived them to be Querie.

M^r Wallows shewed another

M^r Roisells tre was read ordered to return an answer and to show the tre to my Boyle.

Ordered that the Fear disburse 30 for the erecting of a pole in Gresh. Coll. for the use of a Telescope.

MS_575_010 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-04-07 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

D^r. Titon, that upon keeping the path weesels we for some time it afforded a kind of musks smell..

M^r. Hill produced a paper transcribed from the History concerning the firming of powder for 16. years after it had Layn in the flesh of a man. which was Read and this paper was and in be transcribed the Journall books

D^r. Titon shewed the figure of a figh of the Acus murinus kind, curiously drawn by M^r Waller which was anatomises and described by himself, the fish and figure left with M^r. Hunt for the Repository —.

The same also shewed a stones taken out of the kidney of a man which was very rough and Radiated or pointed every way like an echinus and very hard, the body of the stones in the middle was about the bignessi of a large pea, used as Radiated it would fill a large hazell nut shell.

A note of Mo^r. Pappin about firing gunpowder was Read to be acter in the Journalle booke of this Day.

M^r. Hill Read a paper about the circulation of the Blood p transcribed out of a books printed 1553. of Servetus. to be cutted in y^e Journalls —

The Journall books at be the produced and examined concerning the Exp^ts. made about proving arteriall blood to be made in the Lungs.

G. H. Nas. 1660 M. 2. 8. p.m.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-04-14 Wyche; Cyril Sr. Cyrill wych

The minutes of the last day were read

Two notes from M^r Justell

M^r Hougton produced some stones cut by M^r Morlow.

M^r Papins paper about Saago and Chocalate

S^r Edmond King said that Chocalate must not be boiled but only heated for that boiling spoils it that 1 Egg lr 14 spoonfulls of Water

M^r L^d Vaughan that the Spanishe Chocalate is shade without Eggs and yet froths better that that made here with Eggs.

E Halley gave in an account of an Experiment of the weighing a quart of Quicksilver which was ordered to be registred.

M^r Hook showed an experiment of examining the same thing by a siphon filled with

in the one shank and water in the other the router was 79 3/8 inches above the

and the

above the section of the water and

in the other shank 5 7/8 or as 47 to 635 or as 1. to 13 1/2 A Note from D^r Gale of the opinion of Huetius of the originall of Cyphers from the greeks he it was ordered that be desired to shere the book before the society.

S^r Cyrill wyche said that it was plain from Varro that the Romans used to mark their numbers by 10 marks as now they do, wherby they expresd at numbers. and was pleasd to promise to there the place before the Society.

M^r Papins Experiments of Saago, and Chocalate boild in vacuo, and in the Air were shown, and it was found that is Saago boild in Vacuo was much tendered than that boild in Air, but that there was very little or no difference in of the Chocalate only that there was a kind of Empyreuma in that lmade in vacuo which was not in the other.

A Lre from M^r Leewinhoeck dated Aprill 2 St. Novo being answer to the sent him Month 2/12 was produced and ordered to be got translated.

MS_575_011 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-04-21 Wyche; Cyril Sr. Cyrill wiche

Minutes read.

S^r Cyrills paper of the women abacus. a Lre from W^lm Molineux. pt of Lewinhoecks two about Cinnaber

D^r Papin about an improvement of his digester for distillation in Vacou Halley read a discourse about gravity designed for the Transactions.

D^r Slare Carniolan two.

M^r Hooks experiment of Oyle Turpentine water.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-04-28 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

M^r Justells two Notes.

M^r Leewinhoeck about Gunpowder.

D^r Vincent presents M^r Newtons book.

Ordered that a Lre of thanks be wrote to M^r Newton and that it be reforred to the Councell to consider about the printing therof.

A paper from M^r Papin concerning distillation in Vacuo which was found to do very well and was judged to distill faster than in Aere.

M^r Mariotes Book de Mouvemant des eaux was produced bound and put in to the Hands of E H to make an extract therof and report it to the society.

M^r Wallers contrivance for printing his Coulours was shown be f

M^r Wichird Valvason Lre being only a copy of his former which he conceived was miscarried was let alone.

Halley produced his observation of 4 eclipsed in March and this morning by .

A Letter from D^r. sigismond Konig about stones voided by a Women produced presented and presenting 2 of the sd stones, one of them ordered to be part into in to the hands of D^r Slare and he desired to make what experiments he shall judg necessary to examine the composition of its substance.

MS_575_012 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-05-05 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

Ann Taylor Born June 12 1682. 7 1/2 mane weigd lb 48 1/2. height f 2.5 inch round the wast of inch 2.2 1/2. Sovoriant Manulle of Pubescit.

Minutes last day read.

D^r Gale presents the society with D^r Goads book of the weather A Lre from M^r Ray. about the societys present of 20 books of Fishes part of D^r Konigs tre read.

M^r Will Molineux's paper about the dissolution of the parts of Mettles and their detention in Menstrua.

A paper of M^r Papin giving an account of an Improvement of his digster to make it with one vessel.

A Journall de Scavans

M^r Waller produced his table of Colours designed for the Transactions.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-05-12 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

— M^r Henshaw was of opinion that the Vapours raised in the Air are analogous to the raning of the particles of Mettalls in Menstrua.

— S^r John Hoskins that the particles of Water rise in bubbles.

— S^r John Hoskins related that he had seen that in Iron works, said Shoron upon the melted Iron would by the great heat therof be immediately cast up to the top or ceeling of the place.

— D^r Aglionby affirmed that in painting in fresco no minerall Colours are used.

Description of the Yucca.

A are back in New forrest that is allway green upon Christmas day as likewise that thorn at glassenbury that florishes is the common hawthorn

— Lr from M^r S^t Georg Ask L^r from John Weichd Valvasor Konigs tre referrd to the next day Part of a tre from M^r Leewinhoek in auswer to one of Mart 2.

Another Lre of M^r Leewinhoecks produced A note from M^r Justell.

M^r Papins tincture drawn from malt in his digester was very strong for the time it had been in the fire.

Memorand that I have my custody Malpigtius de Bombyee by deliverd to me by M^r Perry out of the Library

MS_575_013 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-05-19 Williamson; Joseph Sr. Joseph Williamson

Querie the time of the ages of the severall sorts of painting.

M^r Hook therupon/Gums: Eggs. 3 Wax. oyle.

M^r Hook read a paper about end beating his Lovell, and poposing a slope pendulum to make the pendulum of a Clock to vibrate with what slowness is desied D^r Sigismond Konigs Lere was read and the Examination of the stones sort by him.

M^r Pigot presented a sort of black Earth dug at a place calld Halsoe near Ormskirk in Lancashire smelling strong of V an Aromatick scent resembling very much that at Hodgson. that it cured a person very dangerously brused named staky.

Ordered that Malpighi, Hevelius, Leewinhoek and M^r Bayle have each a book

Ordered that M^r Newtons book be printed forthwith at the Societys Charge, in a Quarto of a fair tre, and that a Lre be written to M^r Newton signifing the societys resolution.

M^r Papins experiment about Rice

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-05-26 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

— D^r Vincent proposed M^r John Harwood as a Candidate Minutes Road

— S^r John Hoskins that one John bde Brages was the in order of painting in Oyle Colours.

— A Lre from M^r Molineux with a figure of the Horny girl.

— D^r Slare mentiond a authr called Philippus Ingratius giving a like accunt

— M^r Hook that Ice is sighter and other Refration

— That a Jet d'ean disporses into drops before 40 feet High

— A part of of Lre from M^r Leewinhoeck about the texture of Bone

— An account of M^r Mariotts book du Monrement des eaux.

— M^r Hook read a discourse about his application of his Levell of his pend -ulum and shewd the maner of applying it a watch for its regulating ballance Halley shewed the maner of the trade winds in the severall parts within the Frgrick

M^r Papin gave in an account of an Instrument for filtration

MS_575_014 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-06-02 Williamson; Joseph Sr. Joseph Williamson

M^r Sr^t George Ashe subscribed his name and was admitted The minutes were read.

2 A notes from M^r Justell the one about a great Hail falling at Lisle and about an engine used at Amsterdam for quenching fire

M^r Hook gave an explication of an Engine tried here with a gut which he conceives to be the same

M^r Hook shewed the draught and manner of a Water Engine made by M^r Aldersey

M^r Boyles book entituled a free Enquiry into the Vulgarly received Notion of Nature presented from the Author by M^r Hook, D^r Vincent was desired to read it and make a report of its contents. and thanks.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-06-09 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

The minutes Read.

At tre from M^r Bayle.

A tre and an account of the solution of a problem from one M^r George Rash.

A Note from D^r Rudbeck

2 Notes of D^r Papin.

D^r Dickensons book presented by D^r Slare.

Account of the decrease of the weight of the Atrespler by E. Halley

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-06-16 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Halley shewed made the Observation of the Variation of the Needle before the society and having found the Meridian the Box applied therto, the Needle declined 4.45 and being by help of a Reg removed it restored it self to the same point 4 severall times.

M^r Bayley presented a tre written in the Chinese language from the King of Mindanao to the English factory of Bantam being very curiously and neatly writ.

Ordered to spare to D^r Rudbeck what ores the society has in quantity, and that D^r Lister and D^r Slone be desired to spare what they can out of their Collections. to be sent into Sweden by M^r Cluver.

M^r Henshaw D^r Dickensons book is of some tre of the Author to one Mundanus whom he had seen make projects desiring his instruction. in the secret of the philosophers stone.

Two notes from M^r Justel about the Engine that Quenches fire at Amsterdam and a note of a great swarm of Grasshoppers at Aromr out near Aronimink in Languedoc.

S^r John Hoskins Bitumen or Naturall pitch from Pitchford b

D^r Vincent returned M^ry Boyles book of nature together with an account therof which was read soad used that D^r Vincent have the thanks of the society.

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4^o o grains Air

5^th.1 1/2 Hoeerduprise

4 3/4 1/2 water. 40 grains of Air. M^r Bayle presented the Society with the Novellos destinies pour lemois de May, which was

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-06-23 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

Ordered to write to Corespondents about observing the Variation.

D^r Slone produced severall ones which he pleases to boston on the Society for M^r Rudbeck D^r Lister desired to be excused to this time.

D^r Clopton Havers M^r Thomas Molineux and M^r John Harwood word propounded to the society as candidates.

D^r Slare gave in a paper about the Helvetian Stone, which he finds to afford a urinous spirit like spirit of harts horn; wherby it appears that it is an animall substance that the Caput motrtuum would not adhere to the load stone.

A Lre from M^r Justell.

A Note from M^r Papin about preserving fish by boiling it in Vacuo.

D^r Slare produced a Mineral Water connt brought out of Surry which having been kept severall months in bottles, linged galstrong drew a very deep colour from galls.

S^r John Hoskins related that the Knaresborough Spaw in Yorkshire is very fetid & impregrated with much sulfur, curing severall that have been dangerously ill of consumptions.

Ordered that M^r Hunt get a Barometer made after the Mamner

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-06-30 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

A Lre from M^r Caswell.

A Lre from M^r Edw. Smith. Memorad to write for the observations of the Weathe at Dublin.

L Lre from M^r Molineux

Part of a tre from M^r Leewinhoeck. about the microscopicall descriptions of severall Indian plants.

M^r Hook read a discourse of the nature of the Chinese Character, of their books members and Writing which he conceives to be the litterall Charater of some Language now lost, and by that means is become a Reall one, but incombred with so much difficulty, that there is hardly any other help but memory, he was desired to print it according to his intention

A note from M^r Papin about a ready way for exhausting of Vessels and Keeping

A Monstrous Kitling them exhausted for tt of water clear of.

Air weighed in a quart bottle hold 84. 10 air weighed 1.3 1/2 drams or 690 grains

MS_575_016 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-07-07 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Upon the reading of the last days minute and mention in of poppies produced in Ireland D^r Gale related that a field in Scruton in Yorkshire afield ffnly sown with Barly came up nothing but Oats.

M^r Hook notion of the China Language and Character occasioned M^ruch discourse about the potestas of the Letters of the ancient Languages.

A Note from M^r Justell.

A Lre from D^r Wallis ordered to be answered.

A note of M^r Papin about refining of sugar in Vacuo.

M^r Ray Faithorn presented the first tome of the history of plants by M^r Ray fairly bound.

A Lre from M^r Leewinhoek dated the lenth of July 1686 produced.

M^r Hooks Instrument for the Variation

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-07-14 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

A shirt shown were all in a piece without seame, that the Hroof is shott

The Minutes read

A note from D^r Papin about shooting

An account of the propagation of Scripps in part of a tre from M^r Leewinhoek.

M^r Bayle presented the society with the Novells de mois de Juin.

M^r Papin endeavored to trie an Experiment about shooting in than Exhausted favrill but the Apparatus not answering hour ordered to be tried again.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-07-21 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

Minutes read.

Lre from D^r Reisel

Minutes from Oxford

Part of a tre from M^r Pascall about an extraordinry storm of Wind and thunder, near Poldon hills in Somersetshire about 4 miles from Bridgewater, wherby many hay cocks more taken up in to the Air and some of it Scatterd at two miles of:

A Note from M. Papin about a way to fill the Barometer with Quiksilver freed as much as possible from Air:.

A printed tre of D^r John Andreas Stisser Physitian at Hamburg entituled de Machinis Fumiductoriis Curiosis &c. to the R. S.

The Experiment of the Quicksilver sinking by application of heat not succeeding M^r Hook gave an account of the composure of the shirt without a seami

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-07-28 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

The minutes read

A note from D^r Papin about his shooting with rarefaction of the Air. Oisc Of the Worms in ships and the ways of presenting them by sheathing with lead M^r Hook of the Lacker of Japan: that it is a Gun mixed dissolved in with an Oyle, that it is of a very poisonous nature and this M^r Evelyn belived might make a Svery good preservation for shipps

MS_575_017 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-07-28

M^r Papin shewd the Experiment of Hooking with an Exhausted farrell it was found that the longer burrel carried farthest and that the Velocity of the Load was about 70 foot in a second.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-08-04 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

Upon reading the Minutes M^r Hook gave a description of the Chinese & Junks being Verified only above water of the fabrick of the sd Juncks without ribbs.

A further account of the Mercury observed on the top of Snowden &c.

A note from D^r Papin about the Experiment of Mercury Sinking upon the Application of heat and Cold

A Lre from M^r Molineux of July 20.

Adjourned till farther Order.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-10-27 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Gale asserted that the shipps of the Romans and Saxons were sewed togather; this was supposed to be only of small vessells, and the same affirmed to have seeme such a beat in Eugled within side lined with a Raw hide.

D^r Gale proposed that Waitzens book of shipping being in Duth should be procured to be translated into Engsish, tre as recommended to the society to consider of a person proper to do it.

A note from M^r Justell about the Longitude of the Cape of good Hope and an Inscription found at Rome.

Another about the number of the people of Rome &c.

D^r Alionby at Venice go a Week at Amsterdam not above 90.

Farther he about transporting Globes.

Last about the Novelles de September

M^r Hook shewed a Nautilus Stone from portland wherin he shewd an Oyster shell by shap last & smell. 2 foot diameter. 4 turns.

M^r Munson subscribed & admitted.

MS_575_018 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-11-03 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

D^r Vossius Interpretation of the Inscription.

A Letter & a Book from S^r Francisco Spoleto from Venice.

M^r Hook Shewed to the Satisfaction of the Company the Shells in & on the Nautilus. D^r Clopton Havers

M^r Thomas Molyneux elected.

M^r John Hur Harwood. Elected

D^r Aglionby presented his book of the lives of the painters.

Three notes from M^r. Justell.

M^r Papin Shewed the experiment of Consuming Smoak which succeed S^r Peter Colliton proposed that this might be very proper to discharge damps. Havior Air at bottom. wherfore must succed for that purpose.

Lre of M^r. Cassini about the discovery of the Satellites of tr M^r Molineux's Lre of Sept 21. & paper about perspective glasses.

Paper form M^r Boyle about a great and uncommon haile part of a tre from D^r Reisel giving an account of some book printed in Germany and elsewhere cheifly Medicall. the rest reserved till another time.

Justell. 1. about the a tomb from N^r Wilcombe D^r. D^r. Aglionby formerly mentioned to have been found in france wherof he give M^r Vossius interpretation.

2 About a little man of 37 bit 16 inche high presend the King from Quimpercorantin in false bretagne. that the substance formerly mentioned to be transparent and net brittle is Hogs bladders wherof there are peices of 16 inch 13 or 14 Inches. 600 Manuscripts found in the Library at buda. that there is an Answer to S^r William petty.

MS_575_019 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-11-10 King; Edmund Sr Edm. King

S^r Edmund King gave the relation of a patient 75 yeas old of an Acquaintance his that for some suspected himself 12 years years having been melancholy grows grews at length fell into a kind of Madness or rather settishness, Mopishness or Fatuity, and at length died, when upon dissection he found that there was a very large stone in the gall, but the rest of the Viscera found were but particularly in the head. he observed that the brain was shrunk about a third part, and that there was about a pint of Water between the Meninges, but afterwards examining the Glandula pinealis sd by Des Cates, to be the seat of the soul, he found that there was therin a stone very large in proportion to the gland wherin it was found that filld it so that it was only covered with the skin therof.: he shewd the stone, and at the sustance of the society to promised to give in in writing a full account therof:

One M^r Bullock a Carpenter made a proposal to the society of an Invention in the Mechanicks wherby be pretends to be able to increase force to such a degree as that two men should be able to move or raise as great a weight as many Oxen:

D^r King related that there were in digging for a Common show near Christchurch Hospitall; two bodies severall coffins were dugg up amongst them one that the bodee was drie and being cutt into with an Axe it cut like a neats long another coffin wherin there was a body fomed as it were in dust and no bones at all, all dissolved into dust:

The Verball process of the tomb translated by D^r Aglionby

MS_575_020 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-11-17 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Comittee Closen to Auditt the Trears Accounts M^r Waller Lodwick Horton, Pitfield, and Cluverius.

D^r Clopton Havers was balotted and chosen.

Minutes read. statutes read for Election

M^r Hook gave an account of the book recommended to him affirming that the Author had well determined the problem of the pressure of a body upon an enclined plain; the second part about the separation of the gall in the Liver to which he could not so readily asset

M^r Hook affirmed that the manner of evacuating Damps at Leige is after the manner of the engine for consuming smoke

D^r Tyson and D^r Sloane did assert that the pretrification of the Glandula Pinealis was not a very extraordinary matter, and that there were severall instances of this accident in Authors, among others Regnerus. de Graaf on his book de Succo pancreatico, but that the like Stupidity was D^r Tyson affirmed in the head of a Mad man, that died in Bethlem he found two or three small bladders baggs of water.

S^r Richd Bulkley said that he had been informed of a Gentleman at Cambridg a good poet and Mathematician, who when he died was found to have no part of his brain sound, but all in, confusion wasted away to a small matter. and a lupmp of putifaction and that he had no other symptoms when alive byut only be could not endure the Heat of the Sunn on his head

D^r Sloane asserted that he had been informed that at Tholose where they shown the dead bodys preserved from petrifaction, there had been a great heap of Lime laid, wherby the earth being impregnated with its adust particles became this preservative, but that the rest of Earth therabouts had no such qualitie.

M^r Packer, off> said that he been told that there was a body found in in Eastcheap which had been long buried, and appeared very fresh as if new buried. but upon admission of the Air it putrified immediately.

D^r Tison showd an Embrio he belived of about 6 weeks or two months Swimming in the liquor of the Amnion, which was very full, it was suspended from the coat of the Ammion by the Navell string; the said that the Chorion which he removed was plundy vascular; and lack by Vessels to the Amnion

2 Notes of D^r Papins the one about a farther improvement of his digester the other about fruit preserved by boiling in Vacuo, D^r Papin produced some Currants, preserved after that manner and said that by a Mercuriall gage be found that about a third part of the Air was produced by the boiling, but that afterwards that substance or Vapour. also some Cheries preserved after the same manner the price and smell of both were very good and the method of preserving approved on.

MS_575_021 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-11-24 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Slone affirmed that Quicklime destroyes Volatile Salt of and Sp of Sl Armoniac

D^r Pitts asserted that the mixture of Quicklime with spril sal Armoniac does not destroy the Volatile salt, but rather does agitate it to that degree that it will not rise in V a dry form but only Liquid

D^r Robinson affirmed that the Mummies or bodies dried in the Sands of Africk will not relent or perish by Moisture

A Note from M^r Justell.

M^r Molineux presented from his brother this book intituled Sciotbericu Telescopium. Statutes read

A tre from D^r Wallis D^r Pitt belived that the dropsy is occasiod by the glands being obstructed and so the serum all separated.

D^r Pitt affirmed that according to D^r Har^dys notes upon Generation no Embrio could be discerned in the Womb of a Woman till after 2 months conception.

Lre from Hevelius: D^r Papin's paper about the Velocity of the Air Ordered that there be bold as it rushes into an exhausted receiver a Councell on Monday the 29^th Instant abut 10 of the Clock.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-12-01

The President was pleased to Constitute his Vicepresidents. S^r John Hoskins, S^r Cyrill Wyche, Thomas Henshaw Esq^r., D^r Thomas Gale, Samuell Pepys Esq^r. and S^r Joseph Williamson

D^r. Slone sd that mixing Salt of Hartshorn with Quicklime, and then trying to sublime the salt Again, it would none of it rise in the form of Salt but all in Liquor.

The same said that at Moprell for a Muscular dissection, they made use of a Tincture of Myrh & Aloes, drawn with Spirit of Wine and afterwards covering the body in deal shaving wherby the body was preserved about 3 months in the Middle of Summer, the bowells taken out. the same that Cedar dust is esteemed the best preservative from Corruption.

S^r John Hoskins was of opinion that the Mummies were only those of Egypt and that that of the sands was probably fabulous —

M^r Cluverius was desired to take the perius to review M^r Molineux his book & report it

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Lre of D^r Wallis read.

S^r John Hoskyns produced some small culick grains of a sort of Marchasite which were very near Cae cubes of a about the 8^th of an Inch side. D^r Slone Sd they came from Yorkshire and that they were a sort of Pyrites

A Lre from John Weichard Valvasor about his manner of Casting of statues of a very great thinness delivered to D^r Aglionby pro promised to sway late it and team if there be any thing now in it

A Note from D^r Papin about baking in his Digester M^r Lodwick was sworn of the Councell∗

The president look the Oaths of Alleagence & Supremacy.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-12-08 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

S^r John Hoskins, S^r Cyrill Wyche, and D^r Thomas Gale were sworn before eight of the Councell, and took the Oaths of Alleagence and Supremicie, according to the Chater statute.

Minutes read

Cedar saw dust used for the preserving the bodies of Animalls brog^t from the West Indies.

S^r John Hoskins affirmed that the balm of gilead in the sap or Juice of the Eastern Cedar or coniferous Cedar of Libanus

D^r Gale assured confirmed the cure of the Dropsy on two persons he well knows by the use of Mustard Food in his drink.

D^r Pitt sd that Vomiting and purging do not allwars suceed sometimes the Contrary in Rheumatisms.

D^r Robinson sd Cubick grains of Hæmatites found near Helmsly in York. Shire; M^r Hook that such came out of New England, that were have Amethists and transparent.

D^r Robinson alleaged that it is a common thing in the Woulds and Craven in Yorkshire to have such eruption of Water, out of the sides of the Hills and that be himself had seen it spout two yards out of the Earth. M^r Pagit that to the SW of Kettlewell there is a lake out of which after the manner of a Jetto the Water spouts out below, and becomes the head of the River Air.

D^r Gale said that there has been lately discovered in the Bishop sick of Durham a Copper mine, granted to the Dean of Durham

M^r Henshaw presented the society with some of the Roots of the Astragalus Sylvaticus said in the Scotia illustrata of D^r Sibbold to be used in that Country to prevent hunger and Weariness.

M^r Aubery produed a Nautilus cast in the substance of the Vitriol stone of a brass colour.

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M^r Cluvers account of M^r Molineux's book read

M^r Mears oldest son to S^r Thomas Mears Elected

M^r Molineux presents the Society with the observation of the Eclipse of Novemb 19 1686. beginning 9^h, 25^I or 27^I dubious the End accurately at 12^h. 4^I ie Lardini Juntion 9^h. 54^I. the End 12^h. 31 hence the middle at 11.12 1/2 calc. 11^h. 23^I error 10 or 11 min Calc to slow the Quantity & duration exactly according to the English Ephemerides. 258 Gall. 7 1/2 dig whereas 2.34 Dival & bdig

M^r. Hook read a discourse of his proposing severall Queries concer= ning the shells and the like petrified substances found under ground, and on the tops of hills as Nautili, Helmet stones, and the like and produced very elegant figures of the like substances drawn by himself

Memr A Lre from M^r William Cole of Bristell about the purple was read wherin he fish sent up for Monsc G^r Huetius Bishop of Soissons. 7 pieces of linnen cloath stained with the Coulour

A proposall by way of Address to the Society from M^r Claudius Bardon professour of the Mathematick, for their Encouragement to proceed in his design of causing Arithmeticall tables to be graved for the ready working of Multiplication and the like Arithmeticall operations

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-12-15 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Clopton Havers was addmitted

M^r Hook supposed that the Cubick grains derive their shappe from the Coagulation of particles impregnated with a Marine salt.

S^r Sarotti S^d that it was very common to have such sort of spouts on the hills in the Kingdom of Naples.

M^r Hook alleayed the instance of the River Mole in Surry which goes down under the Hills at Darking, and rises again at Leather head in S^r Thomas Bloodworths Orchard.

D^r Slone read a part of a Lre of Novemb 1 last ten days concerning a very impetuous Hurricane near Montpellier, about 22 October occasioned or rather preceeded by the collision of two clouds one coming from the Sea the other form the land, from whence without any thunder proceeded a flash of Lighting and Hail and from thence immediately succeeded a violent Tempest of Wind.

M^r Hook read a farther discourse being an Introduction into his Notion of petrified shells.

M^r Cluver presents the Isagoge Physologica Jungii lately put out by Vagelius who sent it for the Society the same Cluverius produced a gbook of M^r Mallement de Messange about the Quadra= ture of the Circle, which be promised to show the pavuboyisus of against the next meeting

An Extract of a Lre from Rome to Sig^r Sarotti about as Lamp found in a Sepulcre at Rome discovered upon the Late inundation of the Tiber

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The other part of the Lre from M^r Riesel was read.

A Note from D^r Papin about the Experiment of shirking fire in Vacuo by a flint and steel.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-12-22 Vaughan; John

S^r William petty produced a defence of his Essays concerning Comparative wealth & people the Magnitudes et cet of London and Paris; which he permitted to be read, and promised to ledge the sd papers with the Society; for which upon favour he had the thanks of the society. wath Minutes read.

S^r William petty alleaged an Instance of a hill in Ireland where there is in Wet mother: great eruption of Water.

A Note from D^r Papin about sheting a sphericall bullet by the exhast the Air out of the barrel was read, & the Experiment shown; but by reason of the Night the full of the bullet could not be seen, so it was ordered to be tried at some other time.

The Earl of Pembrook was pleased to inform the Society concerning that he had seen of the Iron plugy used in Savoy to blow up rocks with Gunpowder, which differs from that in the Repository in that in the plao to describes the Cylinder was Split nearly by the Diagonall, wheras in that of Keposit there is only a small additionall plugg wedg.

M^r Hook read a Continuation of his discourse concerning shells &c wherin he gave severall inateriall instances to prove that there had been very great changes in the Earths surface, as Rows of Oyler shells found in a cliff in the Alps. Sea Sand & Shells in S^t James's fields, and the like shells observed by him self, at a great hight from the Sea in a Cliff in the Isle of Wight

A Note from M^r Justell (concerning a curious relation of China now printing in french, of the presents &c which the French King sends for siam severall books lately printed and now in the press at Paris

∗ A Lre from D^r Wallis of Decemb 14. 1686.

□ An Account of Mallement de Mossanye his M^r Papin shewed again the Experiment of the flint & steel in the exhausted receiver, and the effect was as the last day viz, that though there was some light yet it was exceeding faint, and seemed Only to be from that little quantity of Air that remained in the Receiver.

∗ A tre from D^r Wallis wherein he gives his sentiments concerning the reason of the Trade Winds; and the Minutes of Philosophick Soc. at Oxford for Novemb 30 & Decemb 7 were read.

□ An Account of the 1^st book of M^r Mallement de Messange of the Quadrature of the Circle was given in by M^r Cluver, wherin the Author to make the Reader duty value his pretended discovery, gives a large history of the severall, although and miscarriages, of the famous Geometers both account and Modern in this matter MS_575_025 all which, he would here it belived, that he hath outdone, and wonders that others, more able Mathematicians than himself, should haw mist it. M^r Cluver promised against the next day, a demonstra tion of the Paralogism committed by this Author in his pretended Quadrature.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-12-29 Vaughan; John

Minutes were read.

M^r Hook proposed that it might be tried whether or no the ramenta of the steel struck off in the Experiment of read last day the pistoll in Vacuo, be melted and vitrified as is usuall in Aere, as may be seen in M^r Hooks Micrographie, twas ordered that M^r Papin should make this Experiment the next day.

∗ M^r Hook of the driving Air out of a Vessell by the vapous of Spirit of Wine

A note from M^r Justell about be A Relation of the Empire of the Russians, and of a Maps therof in Holland.

∗ M^r Hook Id that steell filings being put thro the flame of a Candle are therin melted or calcined, and show that make the most vivid sparkling cath fire and burn so as to ascend which he shewd by Ex periment.

M^r Hook asserted that he had been Credibly informed that the tide of flood comes out of the East in to a second the streights more Esterly than those of Weegats, & consequently that Nova Zembla is an Island and that there is a great Ocean to the East therof

L^d Pembroke 4 sides in 24 hours at Venice.

M^r Hook read a farther continuation of his discourse concerning the structure of the Nautilus or Cornu Ammonis Stone, tending to prove, that thô it be true that there is no Animall known, resembling in all points the lineaments of that Lately produced by himself, yet that is not a good sufficient argument to evince that there is no such animal in rerum Natura.

S^r William petty gave in two Notes.

MS_575_026 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-01-05 Vaughan; John

L^d President in the Chaire

S^r John Hoskins supposed that the contraction of the East Indies might account for the Nearness of China and Muscovy, M^r Hook offirmed that he had been informed that to the northward the Wall of China was a small distance from the great Ocean and that the great Tartary of the Mapps is altogether fabulous.

M^r Hook gave an account of the half tides observable about the Isle of Wight that the flood &c.

The same Mentioned that he had read in Mandelslo's travells of an Oyster whose shells weighed above 400 lb weight A Note from M^r Justell, about

M^r Henshaw presented the society with a Venetian Ballotting Box made at Venice.

A Cluster of pine pcones of said by D^r Stone to be of the Pinus Maritima Caspari Bauhin was likewise presented by M^r Hen= shaw.

A Note from M^r Papin concerning an Experiment he dessigns to make in order to find the Quantity of Air produced by the firing of Gunpowder in Vacuo, the Experiment was made in a Capacious Receiver hold 4 1/2 lb Water exhausted, with a grains of gunpowder which whemfired broke the Glass in the bottom therof, which yet was not blown outward by immediately driven in again

S^r William petty produced 3 papers of his being in Answer to the Objections of M^r Auzout

Halley shewed the Correction of the Longitudes in the East Indies

MS_575_027 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-01-12 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Cox produced severall discourses concerning the great Lakes that are in the north of America, where he affirmed that there was a great probability that the Sosquehannough river comes out of the lake, and that Delaware river lands within 5 or 6 miles of the other that certainly runns into the lake.

D^r Slare gave in a farther account of the stones sent from Born our that he had calcined it in a vehement strong reverberatory fire for a very long time but found that it would not be burnt to time, he shewed the stone which was burnt and very white but would not dissolve upon putting it into water so that it is very strange that so very compact a substance should be generated within the Human body.

The time beny far spent M^r Hooks Lecture and Experiment as also those of D^r Papin were orderd for the next day.

There was shown a stone produced by D^r Slare Memord to Querie of the D^r.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-01-19 Vaughan; John (1639 - 1713); 3rd Earl of Carbery Ld. Carbery

D^r Aglionby sd that there stones seat from Bern being reasonably supposed from concretions of the Gall might not be Magnetick as are these generated in the Bladder

∗ Ordered to desire the remarkable things of the Hedgheg observed things Anatomie from Oxford:

∗ A Lre of D^r Wallis

M^r Lodwick said that he had seen a Woman in London who had on her head a horn like a Ramhorn the weath therof was about on inch Diameter.

A note from M^r Justell, wherin he mentions that there has been found in Canada a Mountain made up of Lead and Tin oar so that there is no need of digging it.

M^r Hook read a farther lecture concerning the changes that may have happed in the Earths surface, and proposed 3 Queries Coiz, whether the Earths poles are fixed in the Earth or no. 2. whether the Earth surface bee ptruely Sphericall, 3 whether all perpendiculars pass exactly through the same point or center Upon reading of a 2^d now M^r Justell, second lettres, concerning the Crepuscle M^r Hook Id he had lately seen a glade of light in the Morning; as is asuall in the Evenig in March but that he never before say the like in this time of the Year.

M^r Hook described the manner for dying severall colours in the same peice of Cloath, through severall folds after the Indian manner.

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A Note from D^r Papin about the Experiment of shirkeing fire with a flint and steel in Vacuo.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-01-26 Vaughan; John

M'y Lord Pembrok having been formerly elected was this day subscribed his name & was admitted.

Minutes were read.

A Lre from D^r Wallis about the resistance of the Medium to Bodies projected through it as likewise to those falling.

∗ Ordered to return the thanks of the Society to D^r Wallis for his respect to the Societie, in dedicating his book of Logick to them as like wise for his present of the same.

M^r Cluvers account of the parallogisme of M^r Mallement de Messenge was read

A Note from M^r Justell about omitting the name of him that gave M^r Auzout an account of the number of houses in Paris

An Ephemeris for the year 1687 dedicated to the R-Society was presented them by E. Halley

M^r Hook read another Lecture.

Ordered that M^r Newton's be consulted whether he inserts his demonstations of the Resistence of the Medium to bodies moving thro them to his treatise now a printing.

M^r Hook read a lecture, giving his Hypothesis concerning the manner how shells & the like come to be found much above the surface of the sea as it is at present which was by Supposing that the diurnall rotation of the Earth makes the surface of the sea Ellipticall Compressed, i.e, that the diameter by the poles is the shortest, those by the Equinoctiall the greatest which some Experiments seem to makes out; Then Supposing these pole points Inoveable, the Equinoctiall or Greatest Diameter will be altered, and consequently the parts of the Land toward which the poles appr= oach will be raised and the water sink, but on the Consuming those parts from which the pole recedes will sink and the water lise upon. them

M^r Houghton presented a flat stone very light found on the sea side resembling biscuit cake of bread petrified.

M^r Papins experimet of Air generated of of gunpowder.

MS_575_029 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-02-02 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Cluver presented the societie with the August Septem & October Acha Lipsiensis

M^r Papin presented the societie with his Book called the Continuation of the New Digester of Bones &c.

M^r Boyle sent the societie the present of 6 books of M^r Weidenfeld calld prodromus de Medecinis &c.

A Note from M^r Justell.

A paper from M^r Papin about the Quantity of a Air pro duced in the Experiment the last day out of 6 grains of gunpowder.

M^r Hook read a farther discourse concerning the probability of the Hypothesis that the Earth is of the Figure of a Spheroides pro latus. whose shortest diameter is the Axis, he alleaged severall instanees of assertions concerning the planets figures said to be found Elipticall as the Sun by Sheiner, Jupiter by Cassini and

by Gallet, then he proposes experiments to examine the truth of this Supposition as by the pendulum in platplaces near the pole, and near the Equinoctiall, and likewise by trying whether a degree of Latitude be exactly equall in all parts of the world. then he proceeded to inquire whether the Axis be fixt in the earth, inquiring whether the sands of Arancbia and Africa were not Sra sand and whether there were any Antiquities wherin the Meridian should have been designed and concluding with a promise to give at the next Meeting an account how to make Observations capble to determies these Queries in a few years. To prove this alleration of the Axis he alleaged ther Experiment of a ball turning on its Axis as it swims in Mercury. which her Id he had found to change its Axis.

M^r Papin Shewed that by letting in Athe Air into the receive he was not deceived in his calculation by the Gage for that the gage food in the same place when in a long came the Mercury is raised 5 inches:

MS_575_030 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-02-09

Minutes read

D^r Sloane presented from the Author d^r Magnol his Botanicum Monspeliense lately published, M^r Evelyn was pleased to promise to peruse it and give an account therof.

A Note from M^r Justell.

A Note from D^r Papin about tring the oposition of the Air to bodies moving in it.

The Thomas Earl of Pembroke was unanimously chosen Member of Councell of the Societie by 25 voices .

M^r Povey mentioned that in Summerset house there was kept in the Lower Gallery an exceeding ancient Ivory Chaire supposed to be Roman and that it was very entire.

M^r Hook produced a demonstation of the Spheroidicall figue of the Earth, proceeding from the complication of a descent by means of Gra= vity and the Conatus a Centro occasioned by the Diurnall rotation which is alwais in a line perpendicular to the Axis. Then he pro posed a method of finding nicely as to a second of a degree, by means of a Long Telescope which he explained by shewing here to be certain of the direction of the Telescope and then here to divine the true ban's to any Hypothenuse by which exact observation he concluded it possible to determine whether there were any change in the Axis, much more surely than by the most observations of the antients; and that seen in a few years if there a among tuck they it would be the carries

M^r Hook promised against the next day to show a way here to find a Meridian line instantly, true to part of a Minute.

M^r Papin tried the Experiment shewed the Vibration of a pendulum in Vacuo with a flatt plain opposed to the Motion and it was found that in 127 double vibration the Pendulumfell from 30 grad to 10^gr, and the same in Aere, came from those terms in 10 or 12 vibrations.

MS_575_031 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-02-16

My L^d Pembroke tooke the usuall oath as member of the Councell.

Memerandan to look for experiments about the opposition of the Air

My Lord pembroke was pleasd to give a relation of an improvement of the Water Levell; wherby the sd he could bring water with more cestusly than with those whose tight and Telescopicall.

M^r Molineux's tre of Feb. 3. last.

L^d Pembroke related a History of a Child mentioned in the Recherche de la Verite in whose mother having seen a man broke on the Wheele was deliverd of it having as it were a Joynt in all those places where the Malefactor had had his Joints limbs broken.

A Lre from John Weichard Valvasor.

Anote and experiment of the, Phosphorus in Vacuo, which did kindle, but the gunpowder not fire.

A relation of bethe a New Comet seen in September last was read out of the Journall of Lipsick of November last.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1686-02-23 Vaughan; John (1639 - 1713); 3rd Earl of Carbery Ld. Carbery

Minutes read.

Halley read a paper of his concerning the experiment for friding the comparative force of a Load stone atft severall distances, which he conceived might be best performed, by observing the direction of a needle to two Load stones wherof one is to be alway at the same distance and the other to be removed nearer or farther as you please.

A Note from M^r Justell:

M^r Papin gave in a note about the phosphorus in Vacuo and tried the Experiment therof, the success wherof was that the phosphorus in the Air soon fired, but in Vacuo it only sparkled and sent out a whitish Vapour which afterwards turned blackish; which Vapour as soon as the Air was ad= mitted took fire, and sent of in a flash.

M^r Hook shewd his the manner of discovering the true Meridian, by adapting a Telescope so as the direction of the sight therin should be exactly according to a line on the outside of the Tube; and then by directing this telescope towards as small Telescopick Constellation which be saith he has discovered just about the present pole point, and wherin he formerly had marked the very point and then by letting fall perpendiculars to the Horizan from the points marked in MS_575_032 in the sides of the and Telescope. this being to be put in practise it all times of the might when clear the stars being to be seen with a two fort tube

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-03-02 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

M^r John Harwood subscribed and was admitted, having first signed thise usuall bond.

M^r Clavel Bookseller made a proposall to the society desiring that they would encourage the printing of M^r Bakers treatise's. The society promised that is severall of their Members, would take of the book when printed, at 1 1/2^d a sheet and as much a Cutt to be printed in the same volume and Character as the former book calld Clavis parabolica; and printed in one Language.

Ordered that the manner of finding the Meridian by means of the small telescopicall starrs about the pole be tried next Meeting day, at night.

A Lre from M^r Newton, mentioning the sending up of the second book of his Mathematical philosophie

A Experiment made by Halley, concerning the proportion of the Decrease of is Magneticall vertue. was read, and it was ordered that that argument should be prosecuted, and the experiements result put into the Transactions.

A paper of M^r Papin about the quantity of Air produced in Vacuo by the explosion of gunpowder; was read in he the same proposes the Experiment of a Jet deau in vacuo, to see if how much the water therin would Raise higher, than in Aerr. that

S^r Will Petty gave a relation of a statue which he called friar bacons head which is made to repeat Echoes, very exactly, so as to repeat As much as two whole versus, S^r Will. Had observed that thô you spoke to it very near, yet it would not return its voice till after about 20 sec and that, when it repeats severall sounds so as they interfere, he clears it by blowing into it, wherby the sound is call out, this is invented by a Cabinet maker living near S^t James Square behind way Hallifax's Stables, Ordered that E. Halley do encourage endeavour to Engage the inventor of this Engine, wherby that he being the same to Gersh Colledg: at their next Meeting.

MS_575_033 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-03-09 Wyche; Cyril Sr. Cyrill Wyche

The Experiment of the finding of the Meridian lived, by reason of the Cloudy weather last work; was deferred till the next day.

M^r Evelyn returned the Botanicum Monspeliense of D^r Magnol, which had been recommended to his perusall.

Ordered that Rawrolfs Voiaye be demanded of D^r Cox he having had it about this two Years.

A Lre of D^r Wallis, concerning farther illustration of his calculus of the opposition of the Air to projects & concerning M^r Hooks Hypothesis of their change of the Poles.

D^r Sylvius was this day balloted and Chosen.

M^r Dovey presented the Societie with a tissn of feathers in the manner of a Blanket; Mantle the same presented likewise the piste of a Sea, Tortoise for which he had the thanks of the societie and the things ordered to be putt into the repositorae vide Liggon pay. 118

D^r Sloan presented a substance growring in the sea called by him Tucus membranaceus and by this Irish Dulesc said to be good for the scurvey, and used by the Irish Chewing it.

There was read a Corott to the 66^th Pross of M^r Newtons book wherin he shows upon what lermes the Axis of the globe of the Earth may be mutable; biz: by the addition of more matter upon the one side than the other.

M^r Hook read a Lecture concerning the figure of the Atmosphere which he conceived to be of a Figure much more Ovall than the water, by reason of the lesser pressure under the Æquator and greater under the poles, wherby it is more expanded; there than how, and likewise upon the account of heat and cold the said difference of expressions is still more considerable.

M^r Papin gave in a paper showing that upon triall of the Experiment of a Ject d'eau in Vacuo, had the water of the Ject had contrary to his expectation risen less high in Vacuo y^h in Aere, and offered to show the Experiment but the time being spent the societie Rose.

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Minutes read.

Iwas suggested that the protrusion of Mountains by subterr= aneous fire may occasion the some a like alteration of the poles of he Earth.

There was read an Extract of a tre from M^r Huetius bishop of Soissons concerning purple

D^r Aglionby produced a tre from Tholose concerning an Herma= phrodite in the Hospitall there.

An descripsion of an Engine for applying the pressure of the Air for pressing of Cyder or the like. by M^r Papin was read M^r Josselyns New Englands rarities in 8^vo 1672 pag-37 there is mention made of a Scarlet Muscle at Paschatawey about 50 leagues East from Boston at a place called Bakers Cove is a sort of muscle with a purple Veine, used in New England to mark shirts and Handkerchiefs

There iswas read the objections of M^r Nuis against M^r Papins En give for raising water, as likewise the Answer of M^r Papin to the sd Objections.

Adjourned till Wednesday Aprill 6.

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M^r Newtons third book entituled de systemate mundi was presented to the Societie

D^r Robinson said that D^r Lister mentions severall sorts of land shailes in the which oris found a tinging Juice

D^r Gale reports that he hath received a tre of thanks for the Book of Fishes sent to the Author of the Acta Lipsiensia.

Ordered that some oysters be provided to see if in a Microscope there can be found any such Animalcula as are reported by M^r Leewenhoek in the Bibliotheque Universelle.

M^r Lewinhoeks tre produced of April. 4

To witie to M^r Leewenhoek to search if he can find any worm or such like animalcula according on destroying the teeth.

There was read M^r Molineux's discourse concerning the appearence of the rising Sun and Moon.

Ordered that the Experiment of the matter of fact be tried here M^r Papin promised against the next meeting to bring in a Model of his Cyder press and produced some green pease.

M^r Hook Shewed how by help of the planisphere to find the Latitude of a place by the intersection of two perpendiculars the promised to there how a single observeit by too observations of Azimuth of 2 stars and two

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Mry L^d Carbery sent a Deputation for the Earl of Pembroke to be his vicepresident of the R. Sojiehic

MS^r John Hoskins Vicepd took the Chaire

Minutes read.

M^r Hook Shewed the construction of the problem about finding the Latitude by two Azimuth of two starss and a time between There was produced some grains sent the societee from M^r Boyle having been supposed to here fallen in rain in Wiltshire and vulgarly called wheat, M^r Wallery undertook to observe them. better Twas discoursed that the inoculation of the Veins and arteries may be better discovered by the vessels that enter the bones better y^h in those of the Flesh, in whose parenchy on a they are usually lost when they become small.

Part M^r Lewinhoecks tre concerning the texture of the Teeth was read and the rest referred till next day

M^r Papins note way read about the Experiment of Gunpowder fired in Vacuo to see weather fire could be produced in a medium so made. The same shewed the press he promised last day appling the pressure of the Atmosphere to the weight of a press engine.

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M^r Hook sd farther concerning the method of finding the Latitude of places by the other projections of the sphere.

M^r Aubrey produced some seeds sd to have fallen in rain at Chalk in Wiltshire, they differed from there stone the last day. by their size which

M^r Coles tre and purple

M^r Justells note giving Aurouts remarks upon Justell Vossius &c

M^r Hook shewed a Reflecting Telescope to take in severall degrees which he proposed to find the point of the pole among the Telescopicall fixt starrs.

M^r Papin produced some goosberries preserved in Vacuo having been scalded soon after the Exhausting of the Vessell.

M^r Papins paper about preserving goosber

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a Friend of D^r Clench.

A Lancashire Gentleman, M^r Thomas Brotherton Esq^r of Newton Shewed the R. Society a branch of a Scotch fir tree which he hard in barked in the middle, it was.

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M^r Haughton presented the Societie with some very large Acorn cupps which come out of Syria called in Italia Valania, used in venice for dying: acorns & cupps M^r Hook sd that he had seen such Acorns in their cups brough out of Barbay from about Tayor, the same presented a mon strous Chicken hatched with 4 leggs: from M^rs Miller of Godalmin in M^r Hook produced again his contrivance fox for survey surveing the Telescop stars; by his reflecting Telescope.

Restore. M^r Henshaw sd that the two produced last day was not a scoth fier but a pine tree. Pine tree.

Halley related that he had seen at Edmonton in Sq^r Huxleys orchard. a Codling tree barked round, for a Geeds 6 inches long. which had recovered a new bark which in one place was joyned with the old, and approached of all round.

D^r Havers gave in a paper concerning an experiment he had made of injecting a Clyster into a Dog to see if he could make it pass the Valve of the Colon.

The rest of M^r Leewinhoeck tre was read.

S^r John Hoskins proposed that enquiry should be made concerning Swallows in what state they Are in the winter

M^r Henshaw sd that in Iceland there had been taken out of the Ice and being after brought into a worm there had recoverd and flown about the room and that y^e chancellour of Demark told hiim to for M^r Leewinhoek

Querie about Chickens whether he can in an Egg discover his Animalculas and to send wold about what him & he made his obser. on the Liquor of Oysters.

M^r Hook shewed the scheme concerning his way of find my the Latiud by two Azimuth the samea

M^r Papin gave in a paper concerning his Experiment of distillation in Vacuo, and shewd some lemnon peels so distilled, the scent wherof was very stong and good, but the water was nearly insipid.

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D^r Robinson Strasburg Turp: Picea, Marseilis Pinus Maritima, Venetian Larix, Scio Terebinthus.

M^r Henshaw sd that he had had an account the forme like account of Swallows found in the River of Thames, and that towards the End of the year they assemble upon the Eights in the River and then submerge themselves in the water.

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D^r Gale

Mackerell blind at their first coming and how a film on their Eye but when summer come thes see and may be catcht with a line wheras at first they are only to be caught with Nets.

∗ D^r Pitts sd that taking the yolk of an egg before it was covered with the while he had frequently seen the Cicatricular quere.

D^r Pitts sd that he had a gentleman that

There was read a Paper from D^r Gale. copy'd from D^r Harveys originall beingcopped some anatomicall remarks made by him, being the chife Phenomina for proving the circulation of the blood, and severall other hinting the use of the Victoria, the paper ordered to be pesreved

Halley gave an account that he had togather with M^r Hook observed the Eclipse of set biz that it was begun way notably at 1^h.17¹ 1/2 that it ended at 2^h.3^I Just that the greatest Chord of the Eclipsed part of the sun was about 9^I 1/2 which made about 36 degrees of the Suns limb and consequently that the greatest Eclipse was just 1^I 1/2

∗ There was read part of a letter ffrom M^r Lewinhoeck of Maii 9^th last, being some microscopicall observations upon the structure or constituent parts of the Mealy pabulum of plants included, togather with the Subrio plants, in the husk of the seed which he had found to be in the Kernell of the medlar stone to be made up of conglomerated globules: the rest of this tre was odered to be got translated.

M^r Papin produced a paper concerning an experiment he had made to line whether the ingredients of gunpowder might be found afte explosion in vacuo; but the parts were found to dispersed that nothing could be concluded.

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M^r Henshaw sd that D^r Harvey had considered the slate of Swallows in the winter is found under water and that he had diss ected them and found them from, and fond that here was no motion or worth in them, Ordered to inquire from sweden and the sound if there be no fluid blomd in these frozen Swallows which are said to revive upon warth.

Them was a gentleman M^r Chetwind of Ingstree asserted that during the time that the Swallows he lain up in the Winter, they molt and return again with quite other feathers.

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A Note from M^r Justell giving an account of a Glass house where they make at parais a Substance Excellent resembling China Ware a Apothem S^r Robert by the Frenh King to the Antilles Nouvelles MFeb & March 1

S^r Rob. Gourdon Small pump with 4 hand gave 2 tuns in 1.45 Ordinary hand pump from the same hight 4 hands gone as much as 6.00.

His larger pump with 12^I Surveyors — — 0.31 12 Seamen — — 0.36. 6 Seamen — — 4.00. Ordinary Chain pump.

Certified under the hands of the Commissioners of the Navy.

There was read a Note & diagram from M^r Papin about a Way of distill Oyle of Sulpher per Campanam, for which purpose conceured the engine for he had formerly produced for that might keeping in a fire under water might with some little alteration be very proper.

There was read a tre from D^r Wallis chefly about the surblem of the apparent Magnitude of the Sun or Moon Near the Horizon appearing beggen near the Horizon that when Higher which he concluded to be an optick fallacy proceeding from that the Eye judges those objects that are high to be nearer & consequently appearing under the same to be esser

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the method he proposed to find the Latitude Azimuth of places by the Azimuths of 2 starrs.

M^r Brtherton gave in a paper and some figures concerning his experiment of barking of trees, the paper contained 3 Propositions which he supposes to have demonstrated by these experiments viz

1. That the sapp. (most of it if not all) ascends in the Vessells in the Lignous part of the tree, and not in the Cortricall part, nor between the Corticall & Lignous part.

2 That the Increase and growth of a tree in thickness is by the Descent of the Sapp, and not by the Ascent; and if there were no descent a tree would increase but very little if any at all.

3 That there is a Continuall Circulation of the Sapp all the Summer Season, and during such time as the Sapp is stiring, and not a des= cent at Michaelmass only as some have held.

MS_575_039 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-05-18 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read.

There was shown the Experiment of shooting by the exhausting the Air out of the barrel to see the difference between shooting a bullet and Cylinder: and it was fond that the Cylinder went not so fare by about 4 yards as the CSphere which was cast about 17 yards from the height of flugg 37 feet sphere 47 f. 2 inch 3 f. 10 inc

M^r Hook read a discourse of his upon the Experiment of M^r Brotherton upon Vegetation, drawn from the observations and account from M^r Brotherton himself, whose 3 propositions which see concludes he hath demonstrated by these Experiments are. 1. This discourse M^r Hook pro mised to give in for the Transactions.

The same read a farther discouse concerning the Hypothesis of the Earths poles mutability, which he found confirmed from an observa= tion of Erasmus Bartholine, in Act medicaltaph who together with M^r LicLiœrt at Uraniburg observed the Angles of position of the neighbouring places from the Meridian and he saith they were found very differing from the Angles of position settled by Tycho brake about 100 years before.

S^r Robert Gourdon delivered to the Societie by his Majesties order a Receipt to cure the bite of Madd boggs. being under the hands of M^r Thomas Frasier the Kings Chyriurgeon.

A ^strange Gentleman now present gave an account that the powder of Alum causes the mudd of Water to settle; S^r John Hoskins sd that bitter almonds would do the same. Alumn in D^r Plots Staffordshire

S^r Rob: Gourdon gave an account that D^r plot had lately proposed to the King that to bark trees in the spring, and lett them stand so barked till Autumne, before they are felled, would very much preserve the Wood from pershing and make it much more durable S^r Robert sd that it was the practice of the french to order their wood after that manner, but he knew nothing of the Effet.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-05-25 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Upon reading the minutes M^r Brotherton experiment occasioned much discours about vegetating and grafting.

M^r Hook sd that M^r Brotherton had Cut a spirall cut on the bark of a fire tree, which heald up again, and the bark grow the all the direct fibers therof were divided

S^r John Hoskins sd that to cure a tree of the Canker it was a receipts to cut it to the quick, and wash it well with Gunpowder & Vinegar and then rap it in Cow dung and that that which will make it grow well again

M^r Hook sd that M^r Brotherton had observed a seed suspended in the Air which as soon as the germ proceeded out of the husk turned upwards.

Geofray Winsalle Vinsalvo D^r Gale about Grafting Vines in Caius colledg MS_575_040 library as old as Richard the second:

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning a suspicion of his that the Earth, being made up of Heterogenous parts, may have some in equality in the Diurnall rotation from the different actions of the Sun & Moon, and proposed an experiment to trie it, by observing the intervall of time between the passages of two starrs at severall times of the same night. in the same discourse he supposed the reason of the Moon libration to be that that side of the moon that is next to the Earth is heavier than any other, wherby gravitating most towards

D^r Aglionby was of opinion that Coffe could not be an enemy that part is alway saving a small oscillatory motion turned towards the earth. to the Nerves: but only to those that use the drinking of wine and that Coffee and wine ferments very much

1 M^r Leewinhoecks tre about Coffee read, first concerning the growth and texture of the Coffee berries wherin he finds very much oyle contained in which he conceives the principle vertue of the coffee and prosecuting that Hypothesis gives

M^r Hook supposed that the rosting of Coffee was a sort of direction for the rosting the berry, and making Coffee drink after the best manner. a Malting therof, which made it give its tincture and that in conclusion he saith that he has been informed that the coffee berries grow on a Tree without it he conceived it would not make Coffee: as bigg as Lime trees.

I here was no meeting on Wednesday. June 1.

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That an Oakd where branches being ratted away by the killing of it by the dropping of the upper parts the place will heal upp again and when the wood comes to be felled there will be no sign in the grain of the wood that there had ever been such a branch in that place.

S^r John Hoskins sd that he had been informed that in grafting the best way was to insert the grafts obliquely for 10 doing it will not fail to grow the barks in some place or other being sure to meet as is requisite to make it grow.

2 Notes from M^r Justell the one about a Cart of the Eastern parts of Muscovy bordering on China and desiring the election of M^r Fatio into the K. Society. 2. about a new contrivance of M^r De la Hire to find the Variation of the Needle and to ease the great difficultie of finding it at Sea and that there is a translating out of Portuguese a Historie of China wherin there is an exact plan of the city of Pekin, made to a scale, wherby it will appear that that it is much less than what M^r Vossius imagines.

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M^r Hook read a discourse concerning a method for finding the intervall some of time to the utmost exactness by shewing how to find the point in which the weight of the pendulum is at any moment. and shewed the instrument for doing it, this he conceived might suffice to examine the Querie he moved at the last meeting about The unequall relation of the Earth.

D^r Slone related that he had heard that there was in London a certain person having the disease phthiriasis. who uses to be sick when they the tumors that produces the lice strike in wards, to his stomack, but that when the lice break out he grows well again

M^r Henshaw asserted from Francisco Redi that out of all animalls and plants there is a particular louse excreture produced and that Carps when sick have a sort of lice growing on them.

There was read part of a tre from M^r Leewinhoeck, concerning the growth of Gallnuts which he found to be excrescences of Oack leaves occasioned by the laying the Eggs of some flies upon the leaves who know the ripbls or vessels therof, out of the gleeling moisture of which he conceaved the galls to be produced and that within these galls there is almost constantly found a dead fly proper ergdred in them

M^r Hook produced a Micrographia Nova put out by Griendelius of Nurenburg; wherin are the figures of severall insecty and seeds of the like

There was read a note from M^r Papin about an experiment querie in no 1668 & 72. to trie whether he could restore the air intituled by effluvia and in the triall he observed that having made

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-06-22 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

There was an Experiment made of the vicepresident variation of the compass but by reason of the wind it could not be determined as it ought, however it was severall times found about 5 degrees Westwards

D^r Slone said that the Physician who cold him the relation of the person that had the Phthiriasis, was D^r. Batemen, who sais that they he breakout in pustules all over the body, and that a of in these pustules the lice or an are were Animall like them produced.

The same sd that he had observed a sort of Louse sowhat like a sheep tick upon the Swallows, which are very trouble some and some times kill them M^r Henshaw that there is a sort of Louse found on the Cod fish generally on the Head of him which louse is brokt upon as fortunate for China that first catches him.

M^r Fatio was proposed Candidate having been approved of by the last Councell.

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S^r John Hoskins produced a peice of artificiall Rubie made of a sort of Glass; by a preparation of Gold according to Kuncks method.

There was read athe a printed paper of M^r Delahire concerning the Magneticall Needle which he has contrived to forme into a Circular form supposing that such a Circle would shew alwais the true position of the Poles of a Magnet, which he from some experiments Earth concludes moveable in the stone as in the M^r Justells 2 Lres one concerning some books printing at Paris. the other concerning the Authours appointed to draw up the Journall des scavans viz M^rs Cousin M^r Regis M^r Maillard and M^r De la Rocque.

M^r Hook read a farther lecture concerning the exact measure of time and shewed the demonstration of the dividing the arch of the Oscillation of a pendulum so as to shew the equall times; which is done by dividing the arch in the proportion of sines taking the whole lengght of the Arch from vibrated for diameters.

Halley produced the plant called Starr of the Earth which is the cheif engredient in y^e Remedy for the bite of a Madd dogg.

M^r Hook read a relation of the Extraordinary force of a burning glass in the Aeha Lipsiensia of Jan 1687 pag. 52 53: the same supposed that if such a burning speculum were made of severall foot diameter the effects therof might be expected most prodigious; he proposed that such an one might be made of Copper tinned with a mix ture of Tin, Lead and Tin glass Autg which might be made very large for a small price, and bare a very good pollish.

D^r Havers produced a letter from of a friend of this concerning the cure of a Tenasmus by bitter Clyters, the cause of the disease being wormes gathered in the Intestinum rec= tum. These were supposed by some of the Company to be the Ascarides thro the gentleman who wrote it seems of an other opinion.

M^r Papin gave in a Note concerning the Experiment of destroying Air vitiated with noxious fumes, which he found be could not effect for fhaving tried by the means of a Ject d'eau to Evacuate the funes of Aquafortis mixt with it vet he found by experience that the remaining Air after such operation was still useful for Kespivation the same note gave an account of an Experiment made to see if the liquere Vacuo in distilld of White Roses would Coagu late as that of Red so distilled deth: he produced the glass wherin such liquor of white Roses had been distilled, but found it un= congealed.

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M^r Henshaw said that there are usually found on Whales of the bigness of one thumb. S^r John Hoskins that upon Salmon there and such lice found, and that they are a sign that the Salmon is then in Season but Querie.

M^r Henshaw said that nothing was yet fond that would melt Black lead and that he had tried it in a very strong heat for 14^days to gather but it came out unchanged, S^r John Hoskins queried what may be the cement wherwith the powder of black lead is made into a Crucible.

There was presented from D^r Charlton some salt grown upon a stick like Sugarcandy, said to be brought out of Siberia, a pro vince of Muscovy; it was believed to be coagulated in some salt spring and not in a River as there is said in the note that was given-in with it.

There was a note read from M^r Justell giving an account that M^r Roemer had improved the Engine that consumes smoak, which he presumed might be of great use in London where the smoak is so great an annoyance.

M^r Henshaw was of opinion that the salt of foot being diffused in the Air might possibly be more prejudicall to our bodies than the smoak it self. D^r Aglionby supposed that the sd Vapours being diffused and diluted in the Air ought to be less noxious than when taken in with the foot conjoyned.

There was read a paper given in by M^r Cluver concerning some Tables and papers produced by a foreign gentleman from M^r Wasmuth professor of Kiel, who has contrived Tables from the Bible. serving accur for Astronomicall and GCronologicall purposes; they were recommended to M^r Cluver to peruse & report.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning a method of finding y^e 2 = altitudes of a star Latitude of a place by observing &c a starr passing the Zenith nearly having fond two points and under the other perpendicu larly.

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There was read a paper of M^r Papin about applying his Engine for raising water to raising likewise weights af all sorts out of mines

M^r Hook said that a Rope Streined very height would suffice to convey motion much better than any such contrivance.

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-07-06 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

There was read two letters concerning the Eclipse of the Sun Maii 1 1687 the one from M^r Hayley made at the Streights month, the other from M^r Frank at Barbudoes

A Note from M^r Papin about the reason of the Camera or engine for producing a wind by the running of water Æolia, which has been supposed to proceed from a gene ration of Air by the agitation of y^e Water upon a great fall: which M^r Papin has found by experience found to be un= true, and he here supposes that according to the make of the engine the Air, entring riting into the pipe wherby the water descends is carryed down with it, and by its levity makes its way out at the top of the vessell while the water runs out at the bottom.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the way of conveying force to a great distance which he conceived ought to be done by some stiff and inflexible red as wire or the like

∗ Sesamoides Salamantica Park give Lychnis Viscosa flore mus= coso Casp. Bauhini. Spanish Catchflie. growing about the Mills near new market and about Thetford plentifully. Cat. plant Aug description Ray. Hist plant. Tom 2 inter Lychnides. this is the plant called in the Receipt for the bite of a Mad dog. Star of the Earth; never known before to have any Medicinall Vertue D^r Slone that it is in de Gray's farrier; and M^r Aubery that it grows a near Chalk in Wiltshire. ∗ and shewd the experiment by communicating the force given in the inner hall of the Colledge qCross the Qudrangle by means of a packthread. which was found to perform to satis= faction

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D^r Slone that the first mention of this vertue of starr of the Earth is first in De Grays furrier, M^r Aubery that upons about Clalk in Wiltshire, D^r Slone that he knew one that had cuved 20 couple of dogs that were bitten.

M^r Hook shewed the salts presented the other day from D^r Chalton sade to be congealed like Sugar Candy on a stick in a River of Siberia: the parts therof were shot into square grains like as of a table diamond Cutt which lookd very fair through a Microscope so that it appears to be a sort of Sall gem or Marine.

D^r Moulins observation of a Capitie in the heads of birds reaching from one ear to the other

D^r Tison said that he had observed the like conformation of the bowes of the head of an Owle and that there was likewise a very extraordinary contrivance of a membrane to dilate and contract the pupill

S^r John Hoskins sd that he had heard that the sting of a wasp height be cured by applying the bruised wasp upon the place stung.

D^r Tyson sd that such evacuations as are mentioned in the Dublin minu= tes are rare unless in dropsicall cases and in Weomen are commonly produced from the Ovarium.

The minutes of the Dublin Societie for severall moths last past were read.

D^r Tison communicated a very extraordinary observation made in the dissection of one M^r Smith in whose bladder were found severall blad= ders of serum and each ureter stopped, with such a bladder.

D^r Slone said that upon cutting a person for the stonē ther was fond instead of a stone, a Mucous substance near as bigg as one fist.

M^r Cluver gave an account of the Astronomicall Cronologicall Tables of M^r Wasmuth.

M^r Papin gave in a paper continuing the way of preserving his pipes for the communication,

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Savoy called Dukes

M^r Henshaw added that the Owles of france have unextraordinary faculty of dilating & contracting the pupills of the Eye

R H. of y^e Eye Related that M^r Waller & himself having Lately disserted Severall eyes they had observed a great number of Small Handes or nerves entring through the Schleretis in to the cavity of the eye towards the bottom. and proceeding between the Schleretis & evea to terminates in ye pre extracted Ring of the processus Ci lisares, and see to serve for the motion of the Crystalline Humour, and also for making the aperture of y^e Vacuo bigger or Lesser.

R H. Read an answer to M^rs Pappins objection to the communication of motion at a dis= tance by Rods and also a further Explication of the vibration of the Rods or poles and Another Discourse wherein he further Explaines, the great Inconveniences of M^r Pappins way and impracticablenesse of it, by shewing is. vid

RH shewed the Expt. of the vibration of the Rods, as a pendulum which was by Suspending a large indian cane of about 30 feet in Length by two packthread; about 8 feet in Length by w^ch It was plaive have the weight of such Rods or poles for communication of traction or pulsion at a Distance might not only be made to make freely & with case but also to be In the nature of the, weight of a sway.

The same Experim^t. was also tryed w^th, a large Scafford pole suspr of about 40 feet Long Suspended by two Small cordes, in the Clayster, but upon tryall one of the chords broke, never the Lassi the Company was satisfyeds that it would performe what It was produced to proce

That it would be next to an impossibility to make pipes to hold how perfectly as not to Leak air in some part, 2^ly, that it would be as difficult to discover one or more such Leakes and as Difficult to found and stop them 3 that neither the gutters nor the surpen tine nor the, molossus would prevent, the difficultys. for that all such a gutter must be un covered two Leagues w^th when such Leakes hapned^?; the gutters would not doa ephill and down hill nor crossi the Roads, they would be as difficult to be kept tight from Leaking out those sub stances, not would they hider Evaporation. That though this were possible which yet he throught diss next to the impossibility yet, next the air was the worst of all mediam for conveying such power, there being more strength Lost thereby there by any Solid medium. on fluids, as water &c, by reason of its great springgnesse which caused are great 2 Lusse of motion not to be presented by any ways propounded by M^r Pappin.

D^r Slone Presented a fair & Large Scorpion from S^t Cruz in barbary. for the Repository he had the thanks of y^e S R H. moved that it might be presented in Sp^t of wine in a flat glass made an purpose such was owned to be done.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-07-27 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

It was enquired whether there were any emission of Light from the Eys of Catts to serve them, as in Glowworms fire flies, and the like; but it was the opinion of the Company that in Catts, Owls and the like, any walls extraordinary their great faculty of seeing in the dark comes from the great contraction and dila= tation of the Pupill

M^r Hook said that the light that is seen in the Eys is Catts is rarely found but when the catt is frighted or very earnest after her pray.

S^r John Hoskins; from Simeon Pauli Spirit of wine sleep seeds of Warmwood then dissolve in it Gum Elemi makes a coat for preserving of blants and the like, which was thought might serve well for a preservative of Insects and small animals

D^r Edward Bernard of Oxford returned two Arabick salters he had formerly borrowed out of the Societys Library

M^r Henshaw borrowed two Manuscripts containing some of Euripides his Tragedies out of the Societies Library

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Halley gave the description of the Water galls, or fish resembling gelly, which is found commonly in these Seas at this time of the year was in delis

A paper of M^r Papin about the computation of the Velocity imprest on a bullet, but it being late it was referred till the next meeting.

The Societie adjourned till Wednesday October 197 next.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-10-19

No Vicepresident.

S^r Theodore de Vaux was pleased to promise a certain receipt for the bite of a mad dog which he knew never faile; the said it was the receipt of Mathias de Hudest bosk, it consisted of Kue, Garlick Venice Treacle, and Tin filissgs.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-10-26 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

On reading the Minutes

M^r Aubery noted that the Welsh have generally black Eys which, the Vice president was pleased to a say that it hadebeen noted as an argument that the old inhabitants of Brittain were the Gautes; it being same nation with accient observable that there eys are as generally black us the Germans are graw some very paticular circumstances

D^r Tison gave a relation of what he had observed in the bones of the Ear and Eye of an Owle which he promised to give in in writing

S^r John Hoskins said that he had observed in the Eys of some persons which were excellent, very sharp sigghted that the pupill Iris was of different colours when lookt on after different manners. which he conceived to be from some asperity corrugation in the surface of the Iris Christine wherby those persons were able to dilate there pupill more than ordinary upon occasion.

There was presented from M^r James Frasier the foul called Cappercail or Cock of the Wood living in the for Woods in the Highlands of Scottland, being a langer sort of heath cock or black cock which was delivered to M^r Hart for the repository.

M^r Hook read a tre from M^r Waller concerning severall stones as Nautili and Ophiomorphites lately fund by him at near Cainsham bridg in Glocester Street from which M^r Hook. promised aganist the next time to give a discourse. One of these stones was evidently formed in the shell of A common Nautilius. but much bigger than the usuall sorts and not only the diaphragms were most distinct, but after the holes wherby the severall cavities communicate was were was read a Note from M^r Papin concerning a way indisputably discovered and no room & left to doubt of its having been once a shell of applying the force of Gunpowder to raise weights and other mechanicall uses, of which he shewed the Experim ent, it being by can being the Air included in a Cylinder by the flash of the Gunpowder and applying the weight of the Air to drive down a plugg into the alicdes roll Cylinder being the way, mentioned in the Nouvelles de la day cultres

A tre of M^r Wurtlebaur containing the sarmars taken last year at Nuremburg proving and Latitude unaltered since the time of bernard Wal part of M^r Molineux's letter intimating his desire might to made a according to the late observations that a new map of the World

M^r Wallers observations of the tides at Bristoll were produced and he ordered the thanks of the societie S^r John Hoskins desired that the Cock of the Wood should be enquired after, from Ireland where D^r Moulins said there were commonly to be found in the market.

MS_575_048 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-11-02 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

S^r Theodore de Vaux gave a paper concerning the cure of the bite of a mad dog, being severall receipts said by him to have been of S^r Theodore Mayerne this paper wass ordered to be communicated in the Transactions.

D^r Tison having sd that there was a circular bone within the ball of the Eye of an Owle to help it contract and dilate its pupill, M^r Waller said that he had observed the same thing in a Lapwing and that the frech anatomst in the Memories pour seroir &c assert the same thing to be in the Eagle.

M^r Adaire being present said that the Male Cappercail is a sor much lesser that the femaile, that this preserted the last day is a female. This bird was asserted to be the best of wild fowle but the flesh apt to corrupt. it was conceived to be of the kind of our black game of heath Cocks.

S^r Theodore devaux said that near Carcassone in Languedoc there is a mountain called Montague de priape where the stones are commonly formed into the shape of a human penis one of which stones he promised to bring and she the society.

There was read a Note from M^r Justell presenting a book lately printed in France concerning the trisection of an Angle pretended to be done by a right line and Circle. this sent the Societie by M^r Villermont.

M^r Hook gave an account out of the periplus of the Hanno seeming to favour his opinion, where mention is made of countrys flaming in the night and a high hill expiring fire, the description of which seemed to agree with the Canary Isles. which he conceives to have been blown up by fire.

M^r Adair gave an account that to the westward of the Isles of Scotland called the Hebrides an Island which had been plenty seen from the land ile grant, never any person there.

MS_575_049 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-11-09 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Gale said that he had been informed that there are two sorts of game in England viz the Red game and the gray game wherof the Cock of the Gray game is black like the fowl produced the last day: The same sd he had been infor= med that the white spotts which were found upon the fea thers of the Tayle of this bird do wear away with age and at last disappear.

M^r Hook gave his report of M^r Tarragons book of the tri= fection of an Angle.

Halley produced and read a letter of M^r Wurtzelbaur concerning the Eclipse of the Sun on Maii 1 last past The same read severall letters being accounts of the Tides he had procured to be as observed on the south Coast of England.

There was produced a sheeps head, out of the neck of which there grow a short legg, it was desired that some of the physitians of the society would examine it to see after what manmer it is articulated to the scull or Vertebrœ.

M^r Papins paper about the quantity of Air produced exhausted by the flash of gunpowder in the Experiment of the 26 of October was read, which was 46/59 of the cavity of the whole vessell

M^r Pittfield and M^r Waller presented his translation of the Memoirs pour servir al Histoire des Animaux, and the Mesure of the Earth by M^r Waller: The thanks of the Societie was given them as well for the work it self as for the book presented.

M^r Papin made the Experiment of the 25 of Octob with 1/3 part of the Gunpowder as before, but supposed 3 times as strong and the effect was that the Air expelled was but 2^lb. 5 ounces the powder but 1/2 a Scruple.

M^r Adair was pleased to shew his Mapps of Scotland

MS_575_050 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-11-16 Vaughan; John Lord Carbery

There was presented from M^r Boyle for the Societies Library his New book entituled A Disquisition about the finall causes of naturall Things &c The thanks of the societie were ordered him, and M^r Hook was derived to peruse it and give an account of the contents therof:

D^r Moulins reported that he had examined the sheeps head pro= duced the last day, and that there appeared no articulation or junction with the Scull or Spine, but that it was by a ligament held to the pericranium periostiun of the scull, and the inner end of the bone was very small and ponted like a Quill.

There was read part of a letter of M^r Leewinhoeck concerning the generation of pismires wherin he supposes that the Eggs of pismires are really worms, which he sais he has observed to hatch in little time the rest ordered aganist the next day

There was a Committee ballotted and chosen to audit the Treãrs accounts: being S^r Richard Bulkley. M^r Herbert. M^r Meridith. M^r Aston. M^r Perry.

S^r Richard Bulkley produced a tre sent from Ireland, being the copy of a tre from the Bsh. of Meath to M^r Molvaeux, containing se verall particulars of the Examination of a young wench in Ireland out of the corners of whose Eys there weepsout grains of Corn as wheat Oats, Bear and or Barly; the circumstances were very ex= traordinary, and all precautions taken to prevent fraud, but it was found that the same sorts of grain still issued; so that How utility it may appear the fraud if any were could not be discovered it was observed that 10 grains in an hours time was the greatest number.

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-11-23 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

The Minutes read.

M^r Hook gave a relation of the Contents of M^r Boyles book of Finall causes wherin he shews the unreasonableness of those that deny a dessign in the proceedings of Nature. the second part is an account of severall accidents in the Eys;

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There was read the latter part of the Letter of M^r Leewenhoeck of Sept 9 concerning the generation of Ants, wherin he supposes that the industry of the Ant is not in order to provide food for winter but only to feed y^e which have no motion to help themselves Young Ones beliving rather that these Ants rather lie hid in the Earth as it were liveless without Motion as severall 2 other Animalls doe, all the Winter. ∗

+ S^r John Hoskins was pleased to give his sence of as to the reason why the Young Ants are should be found without Motion whilest they ar yet white: viz: because the bones which in such Insects one she shells on the out side. of their limbs are not yet firmed. wherby they want the necessary instruments of moving themselves.

∗ There was read the latter part of the Letter of M^r Leewinhoeck of y^e 9^th of September concerning the generation of Ants; wherin he concludes three things (1) that the Reall Eggs of Ants are exceeding small and not bigger than ordinary grains of Sand. (2) that out of these Eggs are Worms produced, which being without any motion of their own and helpless, are fed by the old Ants; whence it comes to pass that they are so busy in carrying food to their nests in summer; and not in order to lay up any Mayaeine of Provision against winter as is vulgar ly supposed. And (3) that those that are commonly called Ants Eggs are either thso Worms or young Ants, Aurelia, or elce the a sort of Webbs wherin one sort of Ant-worms are by him observed to wrap themselves a little before their maturity: By the way he takes notice of the manner of the stinging of Ants which he finds not to be by biting as some imagine; but by a reall sting in the tayle; which is all along on the back therof groved with a deep groove, not unlike the Sceet used to wett sails withall, by means of which grove the Ant conveys to the point of her sting a small dropp of venemous transparent liquor, which by its acrimony occasions the smart and swelling that generally follows the stinging of Ants. Upon this +

It was ordered that an Experiment should be brought in against the the next Meeting in order to determine the Quantity of Vapour arising out of Water warmed to a certain degree, which was conceived might be of good use in the explicating severall Phenomena in Meteorologie and the Theory of Springs; as also the reason of some remarkable observations made of the Med Current into the Mediterranean sea out of the Ocean.

MS_575_052 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-12-07 Vaughan; John

The minutes read.

M^r Hook read a lecture being first a recapitulation of severall thing he bath last year produced before the societie particularly conserning the Sphœroidall figure of the Earth, of the Mutation of poles and the consequences therof. concluding with a passage out of plato S Timeus, seeming to make much for his Hypothesis of the frequency of floods and Conflagrations: being the relation of an old man to Plato's grand father who had it from an Egyptian priest that the Isle of Atlantis was once so considerable as to have had inhabitants which conquered most of Africa & Europe Asia. but that in one days time the whole Iland sunk into the sea. Lastly he gave a Translation of Hanne's periplus, from some passages of which he collects that there was then a Conflagration of some Laids whish as he enterprets κα

με

θυ, were in the Latitude of 36 degres. & as he belives to the NW. of the and belives that the Mountain called θε

χΧεμα was the peak of Teneriff which and he said be had good authority for it, that the Caldera or basin on the top of it is warm with a subterranean heat.

D^r Gale sd that severall authors he had consulted understood the words κα

ε

θυ. in the same sence that M^r Hook in this lecture. and that Translater out of the Phenician curyam the Author of this periplus was one Hjeronymus Lampsacenus.

M^r Aston presented from the Author Francis Jessop Esqr his book lately printed Intituled propositiones Hydrostatice ad illustardun Aristarchi Samii System a destinatn &c. it was delivered to M^r Hook to bailey in an account therof

Halley read about the experiment &c

The tre of M^r Valvasor about the lake of Zirckniths produced and ordered to be read the nex Meeting

A tre of M^r Lewenhoeck about his Microscopicall observations of Cochineel and the Jesuites bark; was orded to be get translated.

Halley read an account of the Quantity of Vapour which in a days time exhales off of the surface of Water, which by experiment app= ears to be in the warmth of summer not less than a earth of an Inch in 12 hours, whence computing the Quantity of Vapour raised out of the Mediterranean, as likewise that which is emptied in to it by the rivers he found that the Vapours exhaled were near 3 times as much as the Rivers replenished, taking subway the rivers at most and the Vapours MS_575_053 with the least, so that the odds seemed to be yet greater, the Experimet on which this is founded was shown the Societie at the end of the meeting;

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-12-14 Wyche; Cyril Sr. Cyrill Wyche

After the Minutes

M^r Hook read a discours tending to shew that the Ancient story couched in fables had yet a reall and true dessique, historicall interpretation, and after that manner Interpreted the stoy of Persons in Void to be lightning; and the Metamorphosis of Atlas to have been the destroying of the Hesperian gardens and blowing up by subterraneous fire the Mountain Atlas.

M^r Valvasor M^r Wooton. M^r Hautefeuille, M^r Middleton elec= ted

There was read part of M^r Valvasors letter.

There was read S^r P. S. his account of the Saxon Coins fond in Suffolk.

S^r Richrd bulkley produced a letter from M^r Molineux giving a relation of a Gentleman in Ireland that finds he can hide corn in his Eye and of a great Inundation of Water at Dublin.

M^r Papin presented his Engine for Spirting water of which he had formerly given a relation in

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-04 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

M^r Hook read a discourse explicating the beginning of Ovids Metamorphosis in a philosophicall manner, which he conceived an argument to prove that his Theory of the mutations and catastrophes that have happed in the Earth was not novell but countenanced by the most ancient philosophy of the Egyptians & from them transmitted by the Greeks to the Latins.

There were read two notes from M^r Justell the one concerning a of a male in fact, whose genitalls were of a prodigious, magnitude. monstous birth in the franche Comte, and giving a relation of a sort hander and that of of Porphyrie fond in Carada better than that of the, Ancients. in the other was sent an suscription seeming to be Golthique.

There was read a paper of M^r Wallers being since remarks on the observations made with the weather clock.

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Ordered that M^r Hunt cause 100 of the Books of Fishes to be compleated with the Cutts and that M^r Hill be con= sulted as to the stationer where the paper is to be had.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-11 Vaughan; John

The Minutes read.

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-18 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes taken by M^r Waller.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-25 and 1688-02-01 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

MS_575_055 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-02-08 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

The Vicepresd^t upon mention made of the Medalls put into his hands this day returnd them and fond only three of them considerable for their reverses which he did not remember to have seen before.

Halley related that in S^t Helena there was a sort of Adianthum which bere plants perfect with a root on the Extremities of its leaves and these some times would have others of or the third plant began to grow out of its leaves. ad that when thes parent plant decays the other lakes root in the ground. and so shifts for it self;

There was read the 37^th Experiment of M^r Boyles New Physico Mechanicall Exper: printed Anno 1660 having relation to the French experiment of a Coruscation or flash of Light seen in the Vacuum at the head of the Barometer, M^r Boyles was that upon exhausting the Receiver of an Air pump there did sometimes appear some much light as this but not alwais it being uncertain when it would succeed. the difference was great between them for M^r Boyles would only do in the light wheras the an Fresh experiment was in the dark only.

D^r Moulin gave in a paper concerning the quantity of blood in severall Animalls; concluding that in a Man there is about 1/20 part of his whole substance, and reckoning the heart of a man to cast out 4 ounces at each Systole the whole will Circulate at least 90 times in an hour minute; wherby he concludes that the Phe nomena of the quickness of the passage by Urine and of Milk in to the breasts of Nurses may be accounted for.

The 3 neddals which d^r Gale lookt upon as curious more Imp. Noroa. Cos. Aug. P.M. tr. p. Cos. 11. P.P. on the Reverse two hands with Concordia exercituum

Imp. Tilus. Cas. Vespasian. Aug. P.M.

Reverse an Elephant with a line under its foot supposed by some present to represent a Rope with thse Lett Tr. P. IX IMP XV, COS. VIII P.P.

Divus Augustus Vespasianus

Reverse 2 Goats with 2 Goats and no Inscriptio.

M^r Stilling fleet, M^r Adair, M^r Clayton, and M^r Gresham were proposed to the Societie to be Elected.

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Ordered that the Experiment of trying that the effect of the great lead stone is enereased by joyning to it the piece which lush been broken of, as also whether will upon the suction of the Air pump any light would appear was ordered to be gotten ready M^r Clayton produced a Digesting Engine of his being an emprovement of the M^r Papines Engine, consisting of a vessell of Hammed Capper, and he shewd the manner wherby he epimeted the degree of heat by letting fall a drop of Water from the same hight as it seats from a piece of Brown paper. welted, this Engine of his Contrivance could be afforded for 10 wheras still that of M^r Papin cost at Least 50 still:

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-02-15 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

The Vicepresnd^t: related that the had been credibly infor med that to cleanse medalls there was nothing better than a Lixivium of asshes for such a Lixivium being the gentlest corrosive does only affect the Rust and dust without touching the mettal.

M^r Claton gave an account of Rape seed lying in the gromd 20 years togather without perishing for that he had been informed that in Huntingtonshire upon turmicy up the yland they turn^ed up grains of Rape seed/in a formers seeing twenty years before had been too deep buried to grow; &c but upon plowing the land that had been long fellow the Rapes queue plentifully again

M^r Claton said that seeds laid in the Hold of a shipp will never grow in Virginia, wheras these brought over in the Calan would there very well, it was conceived that the myhire and warmth of the Hold might cause them to mishg & the Vegiture by principle spoiled. So sportd.

S^r John Hoskins said that a certain person having planted Liquris. and after it had grown long, rooted it out of the gromd and seed Parsnips, all which those parsnips roots Lasted of Liquoris.

M^r Haughton related that there had been lately taken out of the bladder of a Woman a very large need stone weighing fall 36 ounces, and at first weighd 39.

D^r Havers related that a certain Gentleman having swalloed a Golden Bullet it luy in his Body above a twelve month but at length came away with a strong purge.

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D^r Tyson said that the Cecum in man is so small as not to receive a bullet, but that he in a late dissection at Surgeons hall had found in a Man a great Appendix about 4 inches deep. which was not far from the place of the Cecum, and in such Appendices if a bullet should happen to fall it might be very long detained.

The same said that in a Gaselle or Antilope which he lately dissected he had observed that the Hydatides in Animalls are a sort of living creature which have as it were a neck inserted into the round body of the Hydatide, of which he shewed the figures as appearing in a Microscope, and was desired to bring in some relation of this Novelty in writing.

M^r Hook read an account of M^r Jessops book being intituled ad Aristarchus samiin Systema illustandum.

D^r Moulin showed an experiment of injecting into the Jugular Veins of a dog the solution of 2 drains of allem, in water and the affect was that the Dog died in about a minutes time, after about giving three or four groans with strong convulsions; being immediately groned it was found that the blood was coagulated into a short or friable sort of Coagulum, not unlike that of curdled Milk.

M^r Hook read a discourse being a Recapitulation of what he had formerly read concerning the great Auniges which have suspend in the Earth and promising to produce yet farther proofs of his assertions.

D^r Moulin produced an Ox Eye wherin he shewed that there was between the Eye and the Tunica adnata a passage wherby the said Tunica might be blown up he promised to bring in an account of this matter in Writing.

MS_575_058 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-02-22 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by the M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-02-29 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes by M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-03-07 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

Minutes read.

A Lre of M^r Leewinhoeck about paper word from Hewen union sort of Animall in pepper water; and of flies thoughts to be produced in a Womans legg

Two stones taken out of the bladder of Richard Basnet servant to Henry Lee Esq. of High leigh in Chesshire the one being a round flatt stone of the shape of a Cheese ad about one inch Diameter. the other resembling a pebble but in substance being like pitch inflamable and melting.

S^r Theodore de Vaux sent two stones come from Morte in Languedoc.

MS_575_059 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-03-14

Minutes read.

Account of the Experiments about the dilatation of Water Mercury and spirit of Wine.

The class of M^r Leewinhoecks tre about Nettles and the Scolo pendra were read.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-03-21 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

S^r John Hoskins on occasion of M^r Leew. description of the things of Nettles and the scolopendra was pleasd to observed the uniformly of nature in the Contrivance of the stings of all animals they being contried formed so as to Convey a sharp prgent liquor into the would made by the point of the sting. by means of a groove of small slitt which leaves a passage for the said liquor.

There was presented by M^r Houghton some of the baggs or Matrices of the Wampampeak shell fish out of which the west Indians are said to make their many.

There was read the account of the Lake of Zirkness in Eurg= lsh intended for the Transactions

D^r Moulin presented the societie with the figure of a steato= matous spleen, being all overgrown with hard glands; whence the D^r would argue the great difficultie of curing consumptions when and such like diseases wherin come to be the Viscera are so far viliated. the D^r was pleased to promise to give an account of the syphones of the party whose spleen it way against the next meeting.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-03-28 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller.

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MS_575_061 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-04-04 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

that are fluet w^th more open.

D^r Havers of a Gent troub. used steel med. gand: dyed open 5 Stones found in Gallsblader of a diff constit. smke and sound like Iron looke like rusty Iron

Supposed by D^r Aglionby to proceed from y^e gall & steel med. compounded with y^e that & y^e gall together.

id. fr. m. of a plain remed. a feath. at y^e mouth tickling y^e uvula provoking a great flux. and evacu of y^e senĩ.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-04-04 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

After reading y^e minutes of y^e last meeting D^r Mullein brought in a paper giving his reasons why he concieved mercury to be an enemy to y^e lungs. which was from an experim^t of y^e injection of mercury into y^e Jugular Vein of a Dog causing him soon to have a short cough and in 2 days to be troubled with great difficulty of breathing dying in 4 days and being opened a great deal of bloody senĩ was found extravasated in y^e thorax, and y^e common integuments of y^e lungs to be separated into little blisters most filld with mercury &c. from hence he infer'd y^e danger of using mercury in human bodys so as that it may get into y^e blood especially y^e lungs they not having strength enough to discharge it and force it along wth y^e blood in order to salivation.

D^r Havers gave an ac^t of a person that upon y^e use of Chalibeate medicines and when dead being opened there were found 5 stones in the glth gall bladder very different from those usually found there for they sunke in water, were in al respects as to colour & sound or ringing like rusty Iron being asked whether they were magnetical he replyd that could not satisfy as to that particular but would endeavour to procure some of them against y^e next meeting for y^e societys examination.

D^r Aglionby supposed they might be compounded of y^e particles of y^e steel and y^e gall together.

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The same gave an ac^t of a way he had mett with in a french treatise of curing colds by tickling y^e uvula with y^e feather End of a quill and thereby procuring a great flux of Rheume and evacuation of y^e serum by the mouth he said he had experimented it with good success upon himselfe.

M^r Waller read a Letter to Doctor Malpighi at Bologna testifying y^e respect y^e R. Soc: have for time and Inviteing him to communicate what farder discoverys he had made, giving him an ac^t of a present of transact. and a fish a Booke of y^e Hist. of fishes sent him by y^e society together with an ac^t of M^r Rays late Treatise two Volums of Plants. It was orded to be sent by y^e next poste.

The same read an ac^t of a treatise of y^e glands of y^e intestines by one D^r Conradus Peyers of Helvetia which glands he supposes to be for separating a fermentative liquor out of y^e Arlt Arterys & nerves in order to Chylification &c the remain= ing part of y^e booke treating of several other matters was referred to y^e next meeting.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-04-11 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

Minutes

M^r Justells tres

M^r Wallers account of D^r Payers treatise.

D^r Moulin related that he had lately cut of the head of a Viper and after their hearts had lain two hours he fond that the hearts had one pulse for 6 of that of his rest and after putting warm water on it he fond they revived and beat again 2 pulses for me one pulse for two of his

M^r Henshaw said that it had Halley read his discourse abot the Construction of the Therance and Graduation to make the dilatation and curtation of the Air the Just scoti

MS_575_063 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-04-25 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

After the Minutes there was read

A Lre from M^r William Haley from Constantinople. giving an account of his endeavours to satisfie such queries as had been put into his hand, but by reason of the troubled state of the Turkish empire tres has not yet been able to give missery to his satisfaction. As to the current of the posphorus to say its swiftness depends much on the Winds the others he promises not by the hands of D^r Slave concerning the partifice of the making Turkey leather.

D^r Edward Bernard presented the Royall Societie forget representing they with his book de Mensuris et ponderibus.

M^r Hook was desired to give an extract of D^r Bernards book. and the same was likewise ordered to be done by E. Halley

There was read a tre from M^r Rook from Gibraltor signifing the desire of Vincentius Viviani to be accounted a member of the Royall Societie: It was ordered that Sign Viviam should be wrote to, to know if he would please to transmitt any of his Mathematicall MSS to be published here, and that he should be proposed to the next Councell to be elected a member.

Ordered that it be proposed to y^e next councell to consider of sending a Diploma to M^r Valvasor and another to Vin: Viviani when he shall bee elected.

A Letter from M^r Edward Southwell giving an act of the Effects of the fall of Vapours or change of weather. observable in human bodys & brutes, and other in animal mate bodys &c sharkes order'd to be returned him and an answer wrote him.

A Discourse of of M^r Edw. Hally to explicate y^e riseing of vapours out of water shewing that if the particles of fluids might be supposed to be infinitely little bubbles whose cavity might be supposed a very re= fined matter next to vacuity, that these parts might from severall cau= ses particularly heat be blown up and distended seas to have their is speci- ficity gravity very considerably altered whence he conceived that the rising of A Booke from Sn^r Vinc: Viviani Enodasio Problematum universis geometris propositonĩ &c was presented to the R. Soc:

Another book from D^r Bernard de ponderibus et mersaris was presented to y^e RS.

∗ Vapours out of Water in to the Air might in some measures be rerdred intelligible, for that other wife the difficulty would be in superable to explain how a matter 800 times heavier should be inbibed elevated an sustained in my fluid.

MS_575_064 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-02 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Faithorne presentd the Society with the second part of M^r Ray's History of plants.

There was an occasion of this Book much discourse about the divisions and differneces of plants.

D^r Aglionby related that In M^r Watts's Garden at Cholsey there are at present a great quantity of Chorries and have been so for a considerable time full and that ripe, by means of stoves, giving the plant the degree of Heat requisite for ripenning the fruite.

M^r Hill observed that in a pond of his there did lately rise all on a sud dain a gre, which a much Duckweed as covered the Surface of the Whole pond, pheras but a very little time before there was not enough to cover it half over. It was Queried whether this came from the bottom or what other way it should be produced, S. Theodore de Vaux Watering with warm Water is made a menus to make the Venes give ripe grapes in July, but that this method kills the Vine the next years:

On occasion of M^r Southwells, discourse concerning of the effects of Chinye of weather on animalls, M^r Haughton gave a relation of a Gentlewoman, who upon coming to Epsom was taken with a very severe Astma, which yet upon her return to London left her and this twice hysned to her.

Upon assertion that the unhealthiness of the Air proceeded most commoly from the Marshes and Low grownds M^r Houghton alleaged that Walham abby was situated in a Marsh, but that severall people there had lived to extraordinary ages and the place is generally very Heathfull.

S^r John Hoskins proposed, that it might be tried whether or no the Vapous of water or milk might not be seen rising in the form of Bubbles; he having formerly observed some such thing in the beams of the sun, there appoir= upon the particles of the Vapour, of Milk a lustre like the reflection of the sun on the polished coals of the Bubbles.

There was read a note from M^r Justell concerning a manner of heating water by a ball of copper filled with some Materially which conceives heat, the same mentions that there is a book lately printed at Paris being a relation of China translator from the portuguese wherin in a plan of the Citty of Pekin, which by make much less than Martinius or M^r Vossius represent it

There was read an account of D^r Edward Bernards book de Mensusis of ponderibus: it was ordered that an extrat of it should be put into the Transactions, giving with a Table shewing the parts of Measures of all Nations and their relations or proposition one to the other.

M^r Fatio shewed from the smallness of the Glasses that are used for Micro scopes that reasons why he conceives that M^r Leewinhoek cannot well do more than is commonly done by others for that the object Glass and the Eye must be

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M^r Fatio this day subscibed his name ad was admitted:

in case of a much smaller glass, be so near to each other that it would be hardly practicable to use it. The Same produced such a microscope made with an exceeding small globule of glass, wherin he showed that the dust which is usually found upon Sometimes flowers is figued like the flower from which it is taken; particularly he shewed the dust that is found on the Turhsole of Heliotrope, which was perfectly like the flower of the said plant and he affirmed that the dust on the found within some Blossoms of trees was it likewise also sometimes like to Blossoms: those ordered & (that before the blowing of such Blossoms there it was observaeld be that this sort of dust or resembled very much the unblown bud of the Blossom.)

It being alleaged that in the Bibliotheque Universell there was a discourse of one M^r V. of supposed to be D Vossius wherin he would maintain that the Longitude of places can not be determined by the Eclipses of the Moon or of Jupiters satellites, Halley promised against the next meeting to have a discourse ready concerning the true state of that famous probleme of Finding the Longitude.

M^r Fatio this day subscribed his name and was admitted fellow of the R. Society.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-09 Vaughan; John

M^r Hill that at S^t Thomas no body lives above 50 years. Halley showness and the Guard Ship.

L^d Carbery that the veremedy for the Country disseasd in Jamaica. is to go abord ship.

Halley that the NE wind in the sunier causes Greenwich to be very Auguish. M^r Waller read a tre of his to M^r Ray, and his answer upon it concerning the representing in figures the severall simple differences of plants.

M^r Hooke was desired to give an account of D^r Bernards treatise of weights & measures as also of that part treating of y^e Chinese measures.

M^r Waller shewd some a specimen of tables representing the specifical differences of plants so to give an Idea of those differences only there by to distinguish & know plants. without giving the figures of any perfect plants. be

M^r Hally read a Paper concerning the Longitude:

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M^r Fatio said he saw the Innermost satellite of Jupiter w^th a telescope of five foote at Paris.

The same said that about a year since M^r Hugens had continued a Pendulum Clock that would go very well in bad weather and that he had sent the said Clock to the Cape of Good Hope.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-16 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-23 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Ordered to procure a description of seardroon: as to its position and what are the most probable conjectures of its unhealthiness.

S^r John Hoskins related that upon by occasion of the Sphacelus or Garryrene of the Legg of a Criminall that was hanged at Hereford there was a kind of epidem call disease, where of with all those that were near him were infected and the sherif and severall others presect at his Execution did thereof.

D^r Pitts related that by reason of the openness of Oxford to the N Winds the Consumpsions in the Lungs if they ever once come to spitting of Blood are always, fatall.

∗ Waters the occasion of its stinking from ferment.

Halley alleged he had seen that the Sea after Long Calm gain a thick dusrty froth and is said contrely to gets a said by the seament, that in time it very thinking savour for wart of agitation.

S^r John Hoskins that Brynie being very finely freind

M^r Reamonts letter about Mistels

Halley on Willons.

Sed et Cochleœ satis superq_z abundantes quibus. tinctura coccinei Coloris conficitur cujus rubor pulcherrimus nullo unquam Solis ardore nulla valet pluviarum injuria pallescere: sed quo vetustior do solet esse venustior Lib. I Hist. Eclesiast Ven bedœ Cap. I.

MS_575_067 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-23 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

The reading the minutes occasioned much discourse about the causes of the unhealthiness of the Air.

∗ It was conceived that the shirking of waters proceeded from some ferment of its parts, wherby asn in the working of fear the impure or Heleiro geneous parts might be cast, from whence it may be that the Flames water is said to stink three times and after that to be always sweet here long severer it be kept.

S^r John Hoskins affirmed that the Brive in the salt pits at Livington in Ham theshire being very finely I trained and perfectly clear will not wisthanding upon boiling yeild a very great quantity of sand which is like small pebbles and not to be dissolved in water

This called to mind the Experiment of Cohobating water in a Robert till the whole be turned into a sort of white Earth; said to have been find by D^r BDickeison which was recommended to some of the Company to examine at their Leciture.

There was read a tre of M^r John Beaumont Junior mentioning three sorts of Mistetoe growing 1 on a then I suppose whites there. 2 on a Maple 3 on a Hazle; of which he had sert sumsles to the society. Halley said that he had seen it growing on a Willow, It seemed the opinion of all present that Mistetoe was a sort of plant which by its seeds casually falling into the clests of the barks of trees, took Loop in their wood and to incorporate it self as wee see grafted scions doe.

The same Lre mentiond a passage in Bede which was lund to by D^r Gale, wherin it appears that the Knowledg of M^r Coles Coles purpura was very anctet and according to his conjecture might be taught the Brittany thy the Phænicians, who near the great in the purple die and who in all probability were the fist discoveries. of Britrian.

In this tre M^r Beaumont a knowleges himself fully satisfied that severall figures Stones and Shells found by him far within land and deep under ground must weeds have had a marine originall, agreeing benin with M^r Hooks notion, which hubber to till lately he could not corsert to wherby he would expliotate

MS_575_068 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-30

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning Solomons brazen Sea. occasion'd by d^r Bernards book de mensun's of ponderibus: wherin he gave this thought concerning the figure therof and attempted to reconcile they severall in ancient Authenties concerning it.

M^r Hook that the Air at Southampton by the trends of severall On occasion of Dutchment that were prisoner there, which had been once very much corrupted a kind of plaque.

M^r Henshaw said that all sorts of water as Spring water, rain, May den &c. will be coverd over with a kind of Sexin which in open air will turn green and that ths will stink and then the scum selling the water will be gravel again, and it turn the said seamen become of to a sort of mudd, and then it will be sweet again.

The same that the water of the Nile is generally turbid and gives the flux to those that drink it but the way to cure it is to put puder of bitter almonds into it which precipitates, the mold and makes sherwater whites M^r Lord Carbery sd that the water of the Rivers in Jamaica has the like quality of the flux after Rains.

One mention of D^r Dickensons experiment of turning water into Earth by repeate distillations.

M^r Hook said that upon the boyling of water, there is always some parts of earth separated by the five which sticks to the sides of the Vessell and produced a Teapot of his which had a considerable cust of an Earthey substance grown to its sides M^r Henshaw said related that upon opening a Lady there were had been found in her Gall bladder severall stones, which upon examination were found to contain Iron steel, shee having been used to take much prepard of production steell in her Physick.

On occasion of the account of Mistelds sent by M^r Beaumont and discourse of its maner

My Lord told the Company that in the West Indies whose eats the fruite, called Guavos, does plant them in all places where they ease themselves.

D^r Gale said that the Saxon translator of Bede, expessely calls seas that those Cochlea are Welks out of which there may purple be extracted by the name of Wolks; which is a known name of such Shell fish at this day.

There was read a Note from M^r Justell concerning an artificiall peacock made by one M^r de Genes, at Paris which appears to have all the actions of a Live peacock as eatting drinking precding and contracting his taile &c which is performed by a great murber of spings and pillies concealed within the body.

There was read part of a Lre from M^r Leewenhock giving his remarks, upon the Calomba root esteemed in the Indies a Soveraign remedy for feavers and all Malignant distempers, of this he describes the outward admired texture, and relates the severall experiments he made by mixing the volatile and fixt salt thereof ats likewise the infusion in

MS_575_069 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-05-30

Lord Carbery in the Chaire.

water with the blood, in order to discours in possible what kind of alteration those febrifuges make in the blood when taken as medicines. Note that this same root has very redely the same last as the Janelle's book being Ritter and Shiplick like it almost to the came degree.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-06-06

No meeting

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-04-04 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

S^r Christopher Wren related that a certain person living much used Chaly beate medicines was when be came to dy given and there for fond a living of steel dist adhering to his Liver the persons name was King.

Trace supperd that the drinking of Chulk water was in a gret meame the Cause of the breeding the stone in the and Kidney S^r Christ said that there is a of water that comes to Whitehull that the very clew does head a black rust or sediment other side of pries as to obstruct them in be yours have M^r Justells 3 Lertts were read.

M^r Claytons 2^d Letter about the Water and Earth of Virginia

∗ S^r Christopher Wren and that he Conceved that the Mass of beds on third of Marlo does really by a sort some vegetation one was & so as be able to things up the surface of the Earth above the sea Halley that Winchelsea must by some such means come to be dissert by the sea which was once a Sea for to town and now for with the High water mark.

M^r Wintelburs tre about the light that is observed to appear in the gardening in the spring time which be con served to write from the reflections of the Sun Setting on the Atlantick Ocean.

∗ M^r Claytons (2 letter about the Water and earth in Vir ginia was read wherin he gives an account of the se verall reivs that so plentifully water the Country and the tides in them its to the Earth it is particularly remarkable that the Socte is in many places so MS_575_070 next with Oystershells that there seems to be as much shells as Earth which seens to Argus that Land to have once been coverd by the sea.

□ There were read 3 Notes from M^r Justell, the one giving a farther account of the Artificiall Peacock mentioned in his lust, the second besides a further description therof gives a relation of an Hypothesis of Gravty of one M^r Vaugnon concernig Gravity wherby he pretends to shew some very great absurdity in the Cartesian Hypothesis about that matter.

The third included a paper being in empier to a another of M^r Vossius printed in the Republique de , and recommend to the Consideration of the society it was referd till the next meeting.

There was read a tre of thanks, to the society from M^r Musgrave for their present of 15, to the same included a Lre of D^r Gardens concerning the manner of the Generation of Animalls which was ordered for the next meeting.

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-06-20 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

D^r Wallis remarqued that in all great and ancient buildings the Earth is observed to berais'd which be conceived to

M^r Hook that the vapors of the Atmosphere being dilated in the sums pensioner

M^r Henshaw of the Aurora Borealis

D^r Wallis's book of Aristarchus de Magnitudimbus &c was presented and the D^r being present had the thanks of the society.

M^r Hook gave an account of the Bernards book de Monsuri's of ponderibus.

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M^r Hook said that by exact expertmet 10 tayle is 12 ounces Trey. 10 Mace a tayle 10 Conderin. a Mace.

A Note of M^r Justells about the New barometer &c.

M^r Eimmarts tre about the light in the Evening which he con ceives to proceed from the shade of the peak of Teneriff.

The Account of the Eclipse of the Moon April 5 obsered at Mosco whose middle is determined.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-06-27 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

D^r Pitt that the Cavina is visible in on as Egg before incubation.

The same that it very evident that In the Gradidation of of a Bitch there are are so many cells or Vacancys in the Ovaries.

The same of a bitch that had lad her puppies died in them her &c.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-07-04 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

Minutes read:

Aurora Box of M^r Flamsteed at Edenburg the dancing sisters. cald. when the sunn was 56 degree below Horizon.

D^r Tyson produced the body of one of the pappies and severall of the bones mentioned he lust day to have been found in the Uterus and abdomen of a Bitch.

D^r Tyson said that there were 3^d Strab Liquors in Semine Marium the one from the Testes, the second from the Coats of the Vencule semina les which are glandalbers, and a third from the prostates.

M^r Fatio read a discourse of his explicating the Hypothesis attributed by him M^r Hugens

A stranger being admitted gave an account of a purple Colour he had long since observed on a Coale which he said contained Iron. Halley about the Trey weighs. Aroudapis

MS_575_072 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-07-11 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the Chinese Character and Language, and in Conclusion gave a Catalogue of all the sim ple Syllables to be found in the Chinese Language.

The Variation of the Magneticall Needle was this day tried and by severall observations found to be about 5 degrees West. but by reason the Wind did insinuate itself under the glass, it is thought fitt to cement it down and repeat it the next day.

D^r Havers produced a Lre of M^r Thom Fairfax concerning an uncommon case

D^r Slare gave the like relation of a patien of his who had such an evacuation of blood from his Chin.

D^r Havers account of the Castorologia.

M^r Boyles two papers about printing his Miscellaneous papers.

Halley paper of arguments to prove Eaths motion referrd till next day

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-07-18 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the Earthquakes which have lately Hapned in America and Naly which he supposed might be periodicall every 8 years. and he supposed they may depend on some such thing as Conets.

The Vicepresd^t that time will poyson fish in a River. Conf D^r Moulin bridge bulding on the River of Bray kill^d all the fish for 6 miles down to the sea.

D^r Slare gave in a Paper being an account of a person now living at Bristoll that Ruminates.

M^r Hill 200 years since that a french surgeon Cut a man for the stone in the Kidney.

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D^r Moulin gave a relation how he Cutt of one of the lorbes of the Lungs of a Dogg who lived half a year and seemed per= fectly well then openig again be foud it pefectly heald & the sheed some conceald way was conoedd out for it could not be fond

2 Notes of M^r Justell.

M^r Vossius's his paper about the Longitude

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-08-01 Vaughan; John Ld. Carbery

The Minutes read.

M^r Claytons voiage into the Mountains to the West of Virginia Halley produced severall shells found in Harwick Cliff about 90 foot above the sea and within 10 foot of the topp.

The same read a discourse about motion of the Earth.

The societie adjourned till Octob 17 or till farther order.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-10-24 to 1688-11-07 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes from Octob. 243 to Novemb. 7 taken by M^r Waller.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-11-14 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read.

D^r Slare said that M^r Whites experiment of flame by two liquors was only from the Candle catching in the Vapour.

S^r John Hoskins that a Varnisher had had the fames of his spirit of Wine take fire at a very extraordinary distance.

S^r John Hosk. that in fishing work it will not be the same after remixture as they were before separation

A paper communicated by D^r Plat from D^r Gardon was read containing his sentiment about the manner of Generation

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D^r Slare produced an Earth found at the bottom of a spine spring sent him from Frankfort by D^r Joardis. whose vertue he describes in these words.

Reminde portiunculun Terrevel Luti invenies (in fasciculo surdi) acidulunn miraculosiss had Investum quarm ope Coœci, Claudicantes muti curati dicuntur inpunerdo Lutum nic note bibende agun que plune insupedaest

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-11-21 Wren; Christopher Sr. Christ Wrenn

After the Minutes there was read a translation of part of the Long letter of Malpigius concerning the texture and use of the Glands in animall bodies; which was ordered to be printed as in the Glands

D^r Tyson said that where the vessels are conglobated and there a Praise will frequently occasion a gland to grow as into a worm.

S^r Christopher Wrenn said that he knew a Lady who by the an accidentall knock on the Crown of the Head had be very great bump or wenn growing there, which he conceived to have grown from some such conlusion of the Glands in the Scals.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-11-28 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Aubrey, M^r Lodwick. M^r Hook, M^r Haughton M^r Pitfield were ballotted and Chosen to be committee of the societie to auditt the Trears accounts.

D^r Tyson related that in dissecting a person who had a very large tumor in the Testicle he had found the Veins and Arteries our as big as his head.

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2 M^r Hook said that S^r Christopher Wren had seen a good piece of Egyptian Carving in Stone with the Hyergli Kunsers porphyry on it which was in his opinion much harder than perssh

∗ There was read part of a Lre of M^r Justell concerning the distance of Pekin and Moskow which the P. Gony affirms by Certain observations not to Exceed 624. leagues; the same gave an account of severall pillars Bougter into France from the Kwins of a Citty in Africk near to Tripoli which he had fomerly mentioned

3 There was read a paper of D^r Plotts concerning the manne of felling Timber practised in Staffordshire, viz by barking it in Spring and Clotting it stand tilt the year, Winter which makes it more hard and M^r Evelyn that an old board new plained will shrined & Swell ad ways

D^r Adamus Stamfer D^r Pecklin & D^r Vieussens were propo sed Candidates to the R. Society.

M^r Papins brother produced a very large digester of bones being a Sphericall body of near a foot diameter w^ch to lad made for the L^d Castleton, it was in two bodies huged round with Iron. which he affirmed strong eugnd to fire the pussure of the Air. notre standing, its magnited which was capable to mollifie the Bones in a Logg and thing of Beef and a whole head of an Ox at one time.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-11-30 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Being the day of the Anniversary Election there were Elected D^r Pecklin. D^r Viensens and M^r Stampfer M^r Adair M^r Stillingfleet M^r Clayton and M^r Gresham and the Societie adjourned their Meeting field fill their Elections till S^t Georges day or the 23 of Aprill next.

MS_575_076 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-12-05 Vaughan; John

S^r John Hoskins that glewing is best done by scraping. he beards before they are applied togather

M^r Hook that the reason of the speedy application of wood to be glued is because that he glue immediately cools and Skins and therfore if it cool before the application it is lest and must be done speedily

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the improvement of Cranks for Mechanicall uses arsd the description of the Instrument by my Hook himself.

M^r Waller gave in a description of the a parrequet and the dissection therof in which were observable &c.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1687-12-12 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read.

M^r Hook read the an acoount of y^c first books D^r Bunelts 3^d part of his Telluns Thenia Sacra.

MS_575_077 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-12-19 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Boyl sent his man to shew an Experim^t which was two Liqrs actually cold which upon mixing produced a flame on some cotton woole on which they were drept burning a considerable time promiseing an account of several Experim^ts y^e next weeke relateing to flame he recieved the thankes of y^e society for this noble Experiment and D^r Moulin was desired to wait upon him to that Intent.

M^r Hooke read a farther acc^t of D^r Burnets Theory. of the Earth giving an ac^t of y^e 4^th Booke containing a description of y^e state of y^e Earth after its — Cineration That it is not to bee annihilated but renovated, read by separating the falling down of y^e heavyer parts that were separated and thrown up into y^e air by y^e Conflagration and evening y^e Earth by filling up y^e hill Valleys so reduceing it to the antediluvian state. he concludes that y^c Earth will atlast be a fixt star the Rest was mostly Theologicall.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-09 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-01-16 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-01-23

S^r John Hoskins as to the running blood, that at Stapleton near Acton in Glocestershire there is a sort of red earth which gives such a stain as never to wash out.

M^r Hook described a tree wherin the book &c.

There was read a discourse of S^r Robert Reddings concerning the pearl fishing in the North of Ireland. Pearls he supposed to be the bladder of analogous to the Calculus of Land Animals

S^r John Hoskins proposed the manner of encreasing these pearls Muscles or translating them and propagated them in Rivers wher they have not yet been fond.

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There was read likewise S^r Roberts Descripsion of the Giats Causey within 2 mile of Dunluce to the Norward in the County of Auketian where there are an inmensurable quantity of Hexagonall pillars of stone of about 8^c inches the side standing perpediculuty into the sea.

There were read severall Queries concerning Pearls and the fish that produces them.

M^r Hook that he had Cutt severall pearls in the midst and found some small stones in them many of them black.

S^r Rob. that the Indian Women by the Constandt waring of pearls de discolour them and spoile them.

The Letter part of Lewinheck letter

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-01-30

No Meeting

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-02-06 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-02-13 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-02-20 Waller; Richard Mr. Waller

Minutes taken by M^r Waller

MS_575_079 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1688-02-27 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

— D^r Moulin that sweet fennell seed if sown in England will degenerate into the our common fennell; which thefore he belived that they were the same plant.

— M^r Hook that the Clouds are nothing elie but mist

— M^r Hook that Land when fist appering is refracted and appears more picked than ordinary

— M^r Fatio that there seems a reflection from the a surface M^r Hook that it is the surface of the Vapous.

— There was read the remaining part of the Lre of M^r Cole concerning spiders; & compared with the account of them in N^o 160 of the Transactions

— M^r Hook gave an relation of a sort of Spider which is apt to walk upon the water

D^r Moulin produced loee of all an experiment of the sand, that it is much more ponderous than ordinary sand, with severall other experiments of the like nature which he promised to give an account of in writing a yet the next day

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-03-06 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

That the lightness of the spiders and the lengh of their ours may be the cause that they move so fast on the water to Halleys discouse about Diving

M^r Hill that the sea is so clear ind guinea. and on the Cost of Brasili

M^r Hook that somer hire without near the sleighs mouth Lrt 41. Long. 11. at 1045 fathom no Ground. Graves Pyramidographia. Lord 1646. pag. 102.

M^r Hook that his or give for sounding somany fathms so many seconds.

Capt Collins that there is nowhere between England & Holland above 25 fathoms. an between Englnd & Ireland above 35 fith.

MS_575_080 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-03-13 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Minutes read

Another sort of Water insect that dives as well as runs or the surface.

M^r Rocheforts paper concerning his diving at Gottenburg was read.

M^r Waller turned to the severall places where M^r Hooks inventions for diving are mentioned in the books of the Societie.

M^r Chiswell sent 50 of Malpighius de Glandulosum Structura wherof 25 were ordered to be sent to the Author.

Ordered that a Lre be written of 16 Sign^r Malpighi to accompany them, against the next meeting.

Halley was ordered to inform himself of the contrïvance of the pulling Clocks and watches that repeat and strike the Hour & quarter

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-03-20 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hill & Hook the advantage for seeing the bottom from a great hight.

Recommended to M^r Waller Co procure S^r Malpighis his books to be sent him

Halley shewed the principall wheel in the Contrivance for the pulley Clock to be of a Helicall figure. &c.

M^r Molineux related that at Coventry one M^r Watson a Clockmakers has made an engine that Sun and moon. Perpetuall Almanack the third the planetary motion

Halley read his tre concerning to S^r Malpighi the entreating his thoughts on the use and manner of separation.

D^r Molins Experiments of the Virginia Sand were read.

He was desired to examine the Specifick gravity of this sand and to compare it with that of the Load Stone.

MS_575_081 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-03-27 Southwell; Robert

The President and Vicepresidents being all absent S^r Rob^t Southwell at y^e desire of y^e members present tooke y^e Chair and upon reading the min: mention being made of seeing thro y^e Water best from a considerable height above y^e surface S^r R. Southwell mentioned the way of catching of fish in Cornwall, the fishermen being directed by certain men they call Huers, that sit on the tops of y^e Rocks at a great height, and do thence easily discover the shoales of fish through the water, which the fishermen themselves cannot see; who but by their a foresaid direction follow and catch them.

The same related S^r William Pettys observation of swallows flying cross great seas, which he supposed they were enabled to do by taking notice of certain Rocks and weeds observed by them at y^e bottom of y^e sea in their flight.

After this the Description and fig. of a Scorpion of Barbary was read & shewn by M^r Waller, where in was observable the Eyes on y^e middle of the back; and the taile which was without any hole, slitt or perforation, thrô which y^e poyson might pass.

The same shewed a specimen of some Tables of y^e English Plants Herbs reduced to such an order, as to find the names of them by their external figures and shapes; upon this S^r R. Southwell said, he saw a Person at florence who pretended to know all plants by their salts from their figure and the manner of their shooting into instals.

S^r Robt Southwell related that since S^r William Pettys death, his brother in law M^r Waller had made a small double bottom Vessel of about 14 tun, with this only difference that this Vessel was closed at the head; that she lately brought over from Kenrry in Ireland to Mixhead above 40 passengers, and is now in y^e Port of Bristol, intending shortly for London. He was requested to desire a Description of this Vessel from M^r Waller, with an account of her Performances, which he was pleased to promise.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-04-03

being Easterweeke there was no Meeting

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MS_575_083 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-04-10 Hoskins; John Sr. J. Hoskins

The Reading of the minits gave occasion to discourse of seeing objects thro' y^e water &c & D^r Aglionby observed that it is mentioned in Cosmo de Medicis his life, that he himself used using to leap into y^e water to wash, from a considerable height, some — Persons had placed daggers with the Points upper most upwards, at y^e bottom of the water, but that he escaped the danger, by seeing them at the high place he stood on, which he could not have don at the surface

S^r J. Hoskins said as to y^e spiral wheeles used in repeating watches that it were best to have models made of Lead or some such metals which would give a better Idea of their fig. & use, than a Representation of them in Plano could give; which he desired M^r Halley would procure.

Upon mentioning the Horn sent from M^r Boyl, M^r Henshaw said he had M^r Henshaw seen horns that grow on y^e Back of a Cow, growing out out of y^e Chine bone, from y^e spine dorsi.

As to the flight of swallows M^r Hooke thought swallows rather they stored their cours over great seas by following a warmer and other birds, air rather than from their taking notice of any land markes or the like in their flight.

M^r Hensh: Henshaw mentioned great quantitys of swallows in Denmarke taken from under y^e Ice, which brought to y^e warm stoves flew about y^e Roome.

The same observed that Branford men do frequently take them up out of y^e water; and M^r Evelin said that he had seen them fall like lail rain into y^e sedge, where he thought they remaind in the water for y^e whole winter.

Mr. Evelin said if you take a Toad and busy him in a pot, with his mouth upwards, he will live a whole year & move, without any food only upon y^e air.

D^r Muller shewed a Coin found in Dublin in digging down y^e foundations of an old wall, where a pot of them were was found, containing several sorts, the Inscription of this was thought to be Eadwin Eadwin Rex. on the other side Boita Esmotœ esmote which he thought was from for y^e Coiners name that minted it + for its being sterlin the word sterlin ancienter than y^e Soxon that y^e Crosse or Asterisk in Coins was the note of their being sterlin, which word it was said M^r Baxter had found in to be Ancienter Coins than the time of the Saxons Normans being here.

M^r Hunt shewed a piece of Plaister thought to be much like that of Paris, with an ac^t of it, that the best is got at Bodon Parish in Rungeway, in Chesshire; That they burn it with wood in an open fire, without doores, a considerable time, than powder and sift it, and so worke it up with water: of which they make floors, walls &c. very durable, and when thes Plaister is decayd they burn it again as before and work it a new.

MS_575_084 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-04-17 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

M^r Hill that in the fermentation of Birch wine the fermentat of it is not to be discerned if one look directly on it but if obliquely hs very evident.

M^r Henshaw that in the Villa Ludovicia at Rome there is the body of a man incristed with a sort of a white Marble case, wherof one of the linbs is broken to shew that it is no inposture.

M^r Lodowick said that he had seen about 20 years since a women having on her head a burn of about an but smoth. such diameter turned and weather take a rooms burns bireng close to her head and being loose as not having a baris in j Skull.

M^r Henshaw conceived that Swallows, Froggs &c. must be revived by a gentle warth and not by a suddeni shentd. least the Ice destroy.

Memorand to enquire after a relation of a man revived after he had been many hours drownd.

H On montion of the Eys of spiders & flies Halley mentioned the Eys of the Molucca Crab which are only two transpaesol Holes in his shell. M^r Hook conceived that this Crab is contrived with the any Circumference of his shell in order to give him the faculty to wise at pleasure on th

A proposall being made that it might be conducing to the discovery of the figure of the pores of fluids to examine by Experiment the quantitys of Salt chat that of severall Kinds the same water will dissolve and admitt into itselff it was answered that D^r Grew had tried most of these experiments already and that they were published in a book of his about mixture.

MS_575_085 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-04-24 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Cole related that he had observed in the fish called Loligo which is a sort of Cepia that there is no other bone in it but the Chine or Spina dorsi these juice of this is an in ky substance very black and that the Spine is a sort of Quill, which resembles a pen, so that he hath had made a pen & written a letter with it with its own Ink so that it may be said to be a sort in Rome of naturall Juckonn being a sort of Cepia.

S^r John Hoskins related that there was in the Palace Farnese as he remembred a shepard petrified that had fallen down a cliff therof, near Tivoli, & that an certain English Gentleman known to been break off a finger which it appeared proved it to be huty the petrifaction of the body of a man.

M^r Cole related that in a great thick Oyster shell he has gotten in his possession he had found: such like fish as the Daloli at Genoa and elce where in the Mediterranean being larried within the body of the shell.

M^r Cole said that the Crabs called the Molucca Crabs are likewise foud in Virginia plentifully so that he conceived it ought to have some other name that might be more proper to it The same related that in the bay of Biscay there was a Ship that nett with a prodigious nuber of Crabbs floating on the top of the Sea in 90 fathom water being made differntly from our sea crabbs and pro vided with particular parts on purpose for ears to poisn withall Runs well rectified was supposed to be or a letter preservative to keep animall substances in, them Spirit of wine, which was confirmed by the observation of M^r Cole.

M^r Henshaw related that the certain Chymist had a method of dissolving Auber by spirit of Wine actuated by making a curious oyle therof without any eupyrenma; which is very offencive in the ordinary oyle of Auber drawn by fire.

M^r Cole related that a friend of his in whom he confided in had related told to him there that at DTaryer, digging for stone to build the Menld they had found in the midst of the a great Cliff a considerable quantity of yellow Amber.

M^r Cole The same that the black substance resenbling birds beacks found in Amber greece is the bealks hormy or months of the Cœpia, and that having accurately compared them he had found them exactly to agree.

A proposall being made to trie the quantities of several salts that will order into the pores of Liquors

M^r Hook sd that to had tried the experiment of the penetration very sensibly of Oyle of Vitriol & Water, which will sink into each others pores so as to make a very small bulk very little greater than each singly

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Ordered that Halley bring in aganist the next Meeting some experiment of the penetration of salts into the pores of water, and likewise that he trie the aforesd Experimt of the mixture of Ocyse of Nitioll and Water before the Societie

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-05-01 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Halley described the Cattfish or Polysius which he had seen at S^t Helena

S^r John Hoskins that Lamp black which is the smoak of Pitch & Rosin will acquire a letter blackness by Calcining and that the better it is calcined the blaker it is

S^r John Hoskins that the Daboli are to be found in Majorca.

M^r Hook proposed that to pickle meat in Brandy might be the best roay to carry meat to sea for long Voicuyes

M^r Waller said that a physitian of Tanger had told him the same thing as to amber

M^r Henshaw related that he had a bitt of Amber wherin there was a bdrop of Water in a cavity that would play up and down Halley reported the success of the experiment of the solution of Marine salt and Niter in Water, viz that in the quantitie of water that weighd 320 grains he had found there should be bedged 67 grains of Marine salt; or a true a fish part after it was but that afterwards the same falla sated water inbibed 27 grains of Niter more.

On the Experiment of the penetration of Water into the parts of Oyle of Vitrioll, equall pats being mixed, it was evident that the mixture was not of so great a bulk as such the man of both of the Liquors taken separate.

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S^r John Hoskins produced a Goose Eggshell which having the ordinary Shell hard as usuall was overgrown with severall shells petrified found at Walsworth & alaus Caslesworth in Glocestershire.

M^r Henshaw proposed that the experiment of putting Horsehair Lutestrings and the like in to water to see if they to right not in this summer weather acquire a sort of Life or motion at Least might to tried.

M^r Waller said that he had seen one of these seemigly hairs that was alive and examining it with a microscope he had fond it to be a sort of worm that had a head, and the body was plainly covered with scales.

S^r John Hoskins that M^r Packer had told him in a way of manuring laid by letting severall heaps of Earth tie berg fallow exposed to the Air and then dispersing it them, like dung or other manure, after it had in bibed a great quantity of the Vegitating nitrous spirit of the Air.

Halley related the manner of keeping flounders all the years long for sale in the Corfs in the salt marshers on the sea Coasts but y^e they will not breed by reason of the muddy or onsey bilom. which destroys the spawn.

M^r Henshaw s^d that by putting elm bows into the water it might in a great measure be presented for that he conceived that as much of the spawn as should light on those bows would be preserved.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-05-08 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Henshaw that a fly's eys contain all the brains SM^r Hoskins. that the tortoise may have his brains token out and live a considerable time from Redi M^r Cole the same of a Horne M^r Waller that Redi says the same thing of a fly called Cavalluccio that he will live without his head 4 days.

M^r Henshaw that salt made by the Sun will not eat the gravy of Meat like salt made by fire.

M^r Cole undertook to make the experiment of enlivening a Henshaw by laying it in Water, affirming that he had formerly done it when a boy.

M^r Cole The Experiment was made whether the Electrick power of auber will operate laterally as well as upright and it was found to have the save force Horizontally, also the auber being MS_575_088 heated by fire had no electrick force at all.

M^r Cole said that he had found a Marine Arecture which had hers so small that he could not see them with the naked eye, yet with the microscope he could discern other insects run up and down upon the Horus of the other.

A Note from M^r Justell.

The proportion of Sall Gem to Water asto its specifick Gravity is as 507. to 239

It being supposed that the sea salt and sall gen in are one ad the same salt, it was ordered to be tried whether water fully sated with Marine salt would imbibe any more of fall Germond as it will of Niter or other salts specifically different.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-05-15 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

M^r Hook read a farther discourse about his hypothesis of the changes that have happened in the Earths surface, being a recapi tation of what he had formerly dddproduced, among the rest he gave a notable instance of Modena taken out of Jacobus Grandius.

D^r dyMolins related that in the dissection of a Viper he found that after having pind it on a table a whole day and then un pind it the viper crawld away.

M^r Waller that the heart of a Horse muscle had been seen by him and doctor Tyson to leat above 24 hours after.

The same that the Heart of a sea Tortoise that died of it self had been seen that the beat a whole day after it died.

M^r Henshaw related that the Spangards make a sort of Silk armour calld cient. tafita's which were by pinking with Iset Coles very near the one the other; a quilt of many folds of taffeta which are proof against any thust of a sword.

M^r Hill and D^r Morlin related that thay had seen the proof of a Mortery peeice of 12 inches diam which carried full two mites viz from Woolwich to shooters hill beacon.

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M^r Hills note about the Daloli.

Halley reported that having examined Sall Gem he had fond it to be the same with the Marine Salt.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-05-22 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a kind of introductaory discourse to a series of experiments concernings the mixture and penetration of bodies. and shewd an Experiment of the Penetration of Oyle of Vitrioll into the pores about 1/2

. of Water. which was that a small quantity of Oyle of Vitriol being mixed with water did evidently about 1/3 therof sink into the body of about 1/2 put of Water.

M^r Hook that in the Isle of Wight it was a common thing to digg up hazell nutts out of the Eath at a great depth at a place called compton clift

M^r Henshaw showd the Experiment of Electricity with a long piece of Amber wherby the manner of its Attraction appeared very Evident that it was by a kind of Verticall motion, which wold sometimes throw the grains of tobacco after whirting them round to a good distance from it, after it hd raised them up from the paper.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-05-29 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a discourse being a farther assersion of his theory of the Changes of the Earth and promised to shew biprothed of making artificially the severall figures that are fond in Mocha Stones resembling branches of trees and the like.

The same produced a kind of Marbled paper which was made by laying specks or shoaks on one side of a piece of paper and then folding it on the other and prossing it the colons on the one side print and Islamic the other side.

M^r Hook observed that the warmth of the water in the mixture of ousie of Vitriol is a sign of the move intimate micture.

Ordered that there be a Meridian line drawn upon the stone in the Colledg quadrangle and that there be a line fond from the 2 sides of the Quadrangle being in the Medidian to wely any room that may in happen in the stone

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M^r Cole said that he had seen the Haselnutts and the Cliff of the Ile of Wight with severall leaves of that tree the shape of which was very plain. lying about 10 fathoms under the brow of the Cliff

M^r Waller said that he had lately seen the seeds of the heald Lichen Terrstis shown him by D^r Merret that they have Capsula as bigg as rope seeds on the lack gives of the Leaves containing seeds whose prepartion to the Capsula was as the Capsula to a garden bean

There was delivered from M^r Justell the Novelles dela republique des lettres for Jan & Feb last.

Halley reported that on accurate triall he had fond that a solution of 1/4 part of Sea salt in water bore proportion to water as 33 to 29. that Sall gem by triall on 3 severall pieces semangly of different lecture. was in specifiek gravitty as & Water as 17 to 8. whence that solution ought to be to water as 85 to 76 wheras it was found as 76 to 86 1/2 85 to 73 1/2 or as 33 to 29.

Hence it must be argued that either there is a penetration of some part of the salt into the water, or elce that the precision gravity of salt in fluor or when dissolved, is near half as heavy water. again as that of sall Gemm after the same manner as Ice is much lighter heavier than water; Ice but whether this be enough to solve so great a disproportion may neritt consideration

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-06-12 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

Ordered that the Experiment of the Mixture of Oyle of Vitriol and that of the Mixture of Tin and Copper &c. he prosecuted and repeated aganist the next day one of the meetings.

M^r Hook shewed his manner of initating Mocha Stones ground Ivery black. by rubbing a smooth glass on a Smooth Stone on which Coulour was laid and then Separating them Suddenly quetby without shipping in which case the Coralands being d^r by the Air as it first enters the crack. will ship to the glass in such a mariner as are the appearances of figures in Mocha Stones.

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S^r John Hoskins produced a small quantitie of an herb given him formerly lately by D^r Merritt which he said would make a very pleasant and wholesome drink, like Tea. M^r Waller & Halley way of Opinion that it was the Horb Lichen Terrestris.

M^r Hunt had order leave to exchange some duplicates of things viz the Mauze Egyptiacum or a sample of the Romanus or plaintain. two Virginia Silk worms Codds. an Elephant fly, and a piece of the bone of y^e shell of a Tortoise aganist a Rex Mamicodiata or acuired bird of Paradice having two feathers on the lagle:

Halley related the manner of y^e first generation of the Atoms of salt, having viewed carefully Halley related the growth of Nitro as they coagulated out of water them in a microscope, viz that when they first begin to appear out of the liquor, the figures are exactly square and all of a magnitude, that the edges of the Square are first coagulated before water the insides continued fluid

The same said that having made a strong solution of Nitro and lett it stand, he had observed that the Nitro shott as by a kind of Vegetation out of and above the water, and that at first it rose on the sides of the glass, which was not fall by an inch, up to the very top; and after it proceeded to emit branches resembling those of trees; which stood up for hult an inch high on the top of the glass all round. It was queried how this could came to pass or on whether it could be conceived to be performed by filtration up by the particles already formed M^r Hugens of Zulichem being present gave an account that he himself was now about publishing a treatise concerning the Cause of Gravity and another about Refractions giving amongst other things the reasons of the double refracting Island Christall The same presented a tre he had Charged himsef from M^r Leew M^r Newton considering a piece of the Island Christall did observe that of the two species wherwith things do appear throug that body the one suffered no refraction when the visuall ray came parallel to the oblique sides MS_575_092 of the parallelipeped the other as is usuall in all other transparent bodies suffered none when the beam came perpendicular to the planes through which the object append.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-06-19 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

A stranger was pleased to shew the Societie a conceipted vessell out of which one cannot suck or drink the water but by stopping this he said was about 250 years old a hole in the Handle. the same shewed a small she made by art which very well resembled a Naturall one.

D^r Sloan said that poundred glass being shrewed upon gravells walks would prevent the spoiling of walks by worms.

D^r Sloan declared that he knew the engrediants and process of making the phosphorus Baldwini; declaring affirming that Clak and sprint of Nitre were the cheif engredients matters out of it much it was made but that the process was very intricate and difficult to hitt.

D^r Sloan that there has been sort of a Murrano of fish. in Barmudas and that the Bark of the Dogwood of Jamaica will poyson the water so as to kill the fish therin.

The same.

An accont of the first part of M^r Leewinhoeks tre was gives in by E. Halley viz. that the reason why flying fish can fly no longer than their wings are wett, is because of the exceed thinness of the Menbranes that compose theire wings wherby if they should continue brig out of the water the sun and air would dn'd up all the moisture therin and so the juices in the vessels that feed them would come to be crayrlated and an obstuction occasiond which must needs cause a mortification of the parts fedd by those vessells. 2. that the Aye & growth of fish is not determined for which severall reasons are given particularly as to their growth the softness and pliableness of fish bones which are not made to bear the weight of the body as in land Animal is weged as a reason that the Elastick principle of Nature wherby MS_575_093 Animalls grow or rather and blown out into a greater bulk, make be sufficient to extended the softer and yielding cash beginous substance of fishes bones which in land animalls is not to be done by reason of their hardness and firmness. 3. Severall arguments and experiments are brought to prove that all the blood does not circulate through the Heart 14 times in an hour, but that the it be true that more than so much in quantity may pass the heart in an hours time yet that the Circulation is performed quicker or slower accor ding to the distance of the Extremity of the members from the Heart so that, that that is to pass by the Extemity of the feet circulates not 3 times in an hour, that by the hards 4 1/2 wheras throvy the Lungs and parts bordering on the heart the same attems of blood return with a very great velocity. The rest of the tre was ordered tube got translated at length.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-06-26 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Moulin related that a friend of his had secured the flowers in his garden from a very pernicious worm that eat them by filling with sand the wholes in the Earth out of which they came which was conceived to be

The same that the Alles of Barly being laid where Shailes are would certainly kill them, for the M^r B D'ablancourt produced a Golden ducat of the Coyne of MasGustavus Dolphus on the one side wherof on both sides of the Armes. Suction of Sweden there was the SChymicall signs of

and

which as he said were so coyned at the request of a german Chymists whose gold it was.

D^r Moulin produced two peices of Silver found in Ireland Inscribed.

ÆĐELRÆD RE+ ANGLO

on the

other side a hand with M

V and about it BYRVHSYGEM¯OLVNDO+

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2085 1/2 the weigh of Glass belt head

8775 the same filld with water

6689 1/2 The weight of the water

8255 The belt head when the cane was taken at

520 The water that filld the Cane

9210 The belt head and remainder of water and the Cane of Oyle of vitriol.

945 The Oyle of Vitriol

138 The water that filld the dimensions lost.

18 1/2 meltWales the bought of the neck of the belt head.

5 1/2 the bought of the deserted space of the neck.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-07-03 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hampden being present said that the inducement to the Parliament to repeat the act again of Herry 4 I Musfication of Me was from the Testimating of M^r Boyle and the Bishop of Salisbury who affirm to have seen projection or the transmutation of other mettals in to gold

The Experiment of Water dissolved in Salt was tried in the bolt head and about 14 ouces of water dissolving 2 1/8

equall in bulk to once ouce of water it was found that an ounce of water took up 17 Inches in the Cane but the salt being dissolved in it it filled but 11 Inches. some of the Company ∗

M^r Henshaw gave the receipts for the gold Latter: viz that Ox gall diluted with aill of Turpertine last on upon the this my to be couterd or elie French berries on Silver would do pretty well but that the BagFrench berries: Yellow amber, and Gun lack the best. buglherd with Aloes Memorand to ask the Receipt of M^r Henshaw.

M^r Hucbery said that Buckthorn berries give a good Yellow, and he conceived the french yellow berries to be of the sort.

S^r John Hoskins sd that Carmin is the Lake of Arnotto, which is call by the Indians Rocco, by the French Rocourts.

∗ were of opinion that in the often pouring in and out of the water there might be some part therof lest, it was ordered that the salt should be put in drie and let stand to dissolve to see how the bulk therof would diminish as it dissolved, which was orderd

Halley produced his sead might of the month of the River of Thames wherin to saith that be hath corrected severall very great and considerable faults in all our seacasts hitherto published.

MS_575_095 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-07-10 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Slone gave an account of the Kermes that it is a husk that grows like a gall on the These are ulear to coccifera that at the first they are white but by degrees they turn red this wear said to be from the nest of some insect or worm, from which the name of Vermilion county.

Halley related the demand and proposall of a certain person for reco= vering the Goddwin sands or any other sands. particularly that he would undertake to build a Lighthouse on the tayle of the Indwin.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning severall proposalls fill to be embraced. by the societie in order to the carring on Experimentall knowledg &c. as of a Barometer at sea. to feretell storms Calms &c

M^r Hook related that he had formerly observed a trembling motion in the Barometer having fallen very low was succeeded by a very fuivier storm.

M^r Hook observed that in the discharge of the guns at the Tower the sound succedded the flash at Gresham colledg by 7 seconds of time. the distance being by M^r Morgans map. just 1000 yards.

Halley shewed the experiment of the mixture of salt and water again by putting it drie into the water and 5 ounces 5/16 of salt being equall in bulk to 2 1/2 o

of salt &c

Ordered that the experiment &c.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-07-17 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Henshaw produced a blewish flint stone which had veins in it which very lively represertd the severall creases in a plaind deal board

M^r Hook related that at Barkley house Kichadills the walls were well placed on a pavell but that being willing to have a father security for the state of Chimys. &c.

D^r Moulin said that near deny a person that tried to shell his grownd wth burning had a letter effect wthen calcined shells.

M^r Hill that the Motion of sound &c.

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That the windows of the opposite house are blown out.

The Experiment being tried of the pumping of Water in the Phosomatick Engine to trie whether the water by Pumping would loose any part of its balk but it was fond that the water would not boyle or buble at all, which was occasion of some dissute why not.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-07-24 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning severall inventions possible as be conceived, but not yet known by the limitation of our understandings: &c.

M^r Henshaw did give it as his opinion that nothing in a nature manner of minerall substance would stack or gather heat by being welted but what has passed the fire. or been calcined. The same said that the Calx of Lead having been kept, by himself 6 months in a bottle did ac with the mosture of the Air and burt a trenches it was pard pourd = out upon.

M^r Waller said that the mortar in the minns of S^t Albans old woman walls was so hard. that he could not patt peirce it with his sword into it

M^r Waller promised to trie the Experiment of calcining some of that old mortar of Verulam to see whether it wold slack again — as M^r Leewinhoeck asserts.

M^r Hook asserted that the Monument on Fishsheet=hill is founded on a bed of gravell, not above 6 foot black: under which there is a great bed of clay not capable to leave the weight. so that thes bed of gravell alone suffices to suppose so east a fabrick by.

∗ Halley said that watering plants with soap sudds. very much diluted and duty a little blewish with some, he had proserved severall lender plants during all the time of the Cale great brost when the some plants were every

D^r Moulin related that a fried of his having gained a grides out of the sea helad observed that the Cristalls of a Nitrous salt would be slott and in dind weather in the Walks: and that this garden was wonderfull fertill.

M^r Lodwick said that in Canvey Thes ^{in Essex} there is no trees, and for a long time after it was first recoved from the sea, it would only produce Rap & seed but in process of time it now brings very gved wheat Halley that there is not one tree to be seen in all the slad of foulness.

∗∗ M^r Waller relatd that at Northall there was a very geat Ock 4 foot doam that by the Violence of the storm on the 10^th Instant, was

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Ordered that there be a Rule made to have all the severall measures engraved on it

∗ Halley said that before the late great frost, he having used to water Rosemary in other tender plants with soap sudds much diluted and only a little blewish with sope, he fond that these plants know well and hve the hard winter better than in other gardens This was thought to be a very proper manne for this Earth by reason of the Oyle and Alchaty salt in sope, but what degree of Salt was proper in this case was a question not easy to determine.

∗∗ The reason why trees would not grow on Convey and foulness was conceived to be from the open ness of the Coutry to the sea winds, together with y^e Looseness of the Boyle, but that the difficulty to produce grains at the first recovery of the Land was from the Abundance of salt lost in the Earth.

3 torn all to pieces, the trunch spinterd and dissesst and one of the Arms carried above 100 foots goods from the place which be conceivd where been done by a whirlwind; and the bark was all peeld of.

Ordered that a broad brass rule be made to put all the ferreing measures on, in order to compare them with the English measures.

There was read a tre of M^r John Bilberg to M^r Cluver from Upsal giving some account of some astronomicall observations there made particlarly that the variation of the Needle there is 10^o.35^I suppose westreads. and that the greatest hight of the mercury. at Upsall was 27,6 Inches of the Swedish foot, the Lowest 24,9. and by a specimen of the swedes 1/2 foot sect is this tre it was fond that the Swedes foot was about 1/4 of an inch loss than the Land on foot.

The Experiment being this day tried of jumping water in the Air pump. The Vacuum being well made, the bubbles arose plentifully and it was lett stand at least 2 hours. but it was not found that this water had lost any part of its bulk, tho it seemed that much Air had been Emitted in those bubbles.

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M^r Hook, sd that it was evident that the Pyrites or Copperus Stone has been produced by fire for that upon breaking there is found a radiation from a center as an Cast Iron or Antimony

M^r Henshaw related that in the Ukrain it is very ordinary to be infested with Locust that the Earth is filled coverd with them severall inches thick according to the relation of M^r Beauplan.

The same that the whirlwinds attending lightning will bust the bulk of a tree off so also leave it bare.

M^r Hook related that M^r Brotherton had observed that in the great frost those trees that had been coppd generally died whereas those that were un coppd germarold usually Escapd.

M^r Hill said that in his garden he had two trees of the same kind one on the north side and another on the south; that on the south wall tired, frontony the north whereas th that an the north wall died. because of the relaxation of Cold by the noon Noon Sun everyday, in the one wheras the sores of the other being always hept that, was secured

M^r Hill that leaving a Skin of Ice with Air between, would keep a pond of water from freezing.

M^r Henshaw said that in a pond of his in the great frost, one of his ponds being broken, the fish died by the Cold, wheras those in that were frozen over all the fish lived. M^r Hill that in this frost no Ice was fond abov a foot thick, M^r Henshaw that he had not foud it at much above 6 inches.

D^r Molins that the catt in their walks of the Garden mentiond by then the last day, were made with the sea sand, and that a the salt theron seemed to shoot like a sort of Mass about 1/2 an Inch high: but having gathed gathered a quantity of it, and dissol= ved it, he found that it was all volatile.

D^r Slone related that being about 300 leagues to the Easteads of Barbadoes and not nearer to any other Land. their fol a goergs app on the pump HForecastle of the ship alive.

Ordered that D^r Sloan have the liberty to take home with him any of the Registers or Journall Books of the society, one at a time, and that he give the Usually security for the borrowing a Manuscript out of the Societys Library.

D^r Slone produced a ring wherin there was set the Lapis Crucigfer of Boelius, de Book. de supposed to be of use to came of feavers and Agnes and thence calld the fever and Agne stone.

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Upon reading the Minutes

M^r Henshaw said that it was a common observation that as the North side of any Church or building the stone and mortar is most damaged is front by the Ice and Cold and that the windows and Irons are most hurt by the rains and moisture on the South side.

It being Questioned whether the sea did ever actually freeze and whether it were only the Icce of the fresh rivers split up build in the sea.

M^r Fration related that at Genova in the Latitude of 44 often know to be over the sea had been frozen by the Intence cold and that it is most commonly so every year on the Coast of Hollnd;

D^r Sloan said that the Locust he mentioned that fell on his ship was the biggh he ever saw viz. that it was above 2 inches long.

D^r Sloan that more of the Canary Iles they alinoll destroyd the country, to remedy which the Governed obliqed all there fell so great a swarm of Locust that &c. they gathered them with them in backlash to go out with satchells, and gather them up of the grownd by satchells which means they were able to destroy overcome them.

M^r Henshaw said that in Norway the Nice are thought to fall like rain out of the Skie. and that Thomas Bartholine has wittes a treatise of them: entituld d & mure Norvegian

D^r Sloan presented a piece of the inner bark of a tree called in Jamaica Loghotto, which being distended very well represented a Mourse Muslin cloath. or rather white crape such as is used for muromiy ruffles ad there serves for of which he promised a description. that purpose.

D^r Havers read part of a discourse of his concerning the Bones, their periosteum, and the manner of its connexion with the bones, which being long and it growing late was the remand or refferd till the next meeting

Ordered that the society to Adjournd till the Wednesday proceeding Michaelness lemi.

∗ D^r Sloan said that in one of the Canary Isles Anno 1659 there fell once so great a swane of Locusts, that they almost destroyd the Country to remedy which the Governor obliged all the in habitalits to provide themselves Satchells and go out and gather them up off the Ground, and bury them, by which means they were able to overcome them.

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M^r Hook produced a leaf of the Fallipat tree. being a species of palm. that grow on the Iland Mauritius. the same presented from Capt Knox three small fishes preserved in Spirit of wine one was the a yard being compared with that in the repository few squar fish; the other two were of a species of Sunfish

D^r Sloan produced some peices of an Earthen pot used for a sort of Urn to lay the bones and dust of the bodies of the In= dians in Jamaica; there pots were not turned as our potters do with a Wheel, but molded with the hands, its shape wash ovarth with angles and flatt bottomed: but with Angles these Indians he sd did not bun their dead but lest them to consume with time ad them gathered their bones togather ad had them in these shew Halley or mins produced a piece of rich silver ear from Poton, that weighing 37 ounces was almost all pure silver, which they needs no other refinedy but only to bye beating it to powder and then mixing it Quicksilver the impurites are there separated, there benig no other mettal admixed.

Halley read a paper of his own concerning a computation he had made of of the thickness of the Gold that covers the best double guilt wire, which is made of one part of gold to 48 of silver and the fineness such that 2 yards weigh by one grain, whence he calculated from the given specifick gravities of the two Metally viz silver 10 1/3 and gold 18 2/3, that the diameter of the wire was but the 1/386 part of an inch and the thickness of the Gold but the 1/134500 part of an inch Gold the 100000^th part of a grain of Gold visible. whence he concluded that if gold be supposd to consist of attoms that are not to be compressed, that those are particles ofare necessarily less that the 1/2433000000 part of the Cube of the hand dreth part of an inch and probably many times lesser if the united surface of the gold without pores or interstices be considered

Halley gave an account of the last great Eclipse of the Moon which hapned Sept 19 after midnight, that he had foreseen by calculation all the phases therof within 2 or 3 minutes of time from which he concluded two things, first thet at which he was enabled MS_575_101 to do by the help of the Eclipse that was observed on Sept 8. 1671 from whence be concluded two things first that the whole course of the Moon is regular for the said intervall of 18 years and 11 days and that in all parts of that period if the Motion of the moon were were exactly observed it might be for the future predicted by a Calculus that would be sufficient to find the Lon= gitude at Sea.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-10-23 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

S^r John Hoskins presented D^r Hicks's dean of Worcester book of the Grammer of the English Saxon and Mesogothick Languages: the thanks of the Societie was ordered to be returned to the D^r Gothe Harwood whose present it was.

S^r Robert Southwell gave a relation of the fish Capt Knox front from China having its Lailo horizontall like the Cetaceous fish and shinning like gold, the Colour a Scarlet red. taken for great Curiosities seen in china and kept in windows as weede birds in cages. it was ordered that M^r Hunt should take the figure of this fish form an originall which S^r Robert prescribed to procure for that purposes.

D^r Moulin shewed two peices the one of Gold the other of Silver Oar brought from Potosi, being a whitish stone mixed the one with pure gold the other with Silver.

S^r Rob Southwall that in the Ducke of Saxonys curiosities at dresden there is a piece of naturall silver that represents a cross of 16 inches long and eight inches the Arms which is pretended to have been fond so only one the Arms was but upwards which long reduced it was as shown turn in that any artifice

M^r Hill said that in Bishop Pearsons brek on the Creed he alleages that Edict 1676 pag ?59 the Word Saros is said to be mean a period of 222 months: in vindication of the text of plothology pliney Lib 2 cap 13: which however is a mistake in these words Defectus ducentis viginti Duchus mensibus redire in suos orbes certum est. which is in no sense time, unless it be said vigiti tribus, and so it seems to have been entended.

D^r Havers read the remaining part of his discourse about the bones their surfaces, cavities, and penetrations by blood vessels supposing them made up of Laminœ to help the sealing or exfolia tion, and then of the use of the marrow and the continuous of the inside of the Pones.

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the remaining part of this discourse it provens late was referd to the next meeting.

M^r Southwell presented an Oystershell that came from Teuby and said to contain the Muscles within it them: Upon opening this shell it was found that there were lodged within the body of the shell a sort of Muscle resembling a freshwater horse Muscle, lodged on the outside and each living a hole in the shell to food then with heater.

S^r Robert said that Muscles make on their shell alter another as nee will, that you Scallops move progressive with the same

M^r Hook presented from shell alyanis forward from Capt Knox two leaves of the Manna tree that grew on the Mauritius having the maria on then as likewise two leaves of the Cinnamon tree that grows on the Coast of Malabar the tree seeming in all things the same as those on Ceylon but that Cina mon is not so good or that of Zeylon.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-10-30 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Povey were released to assist in procuring the Chinese fish for the Societys sight from my Lady ducthes of Beaufort

M^r Bembde related that in the Emperours collmblions of rarities at Vienna M^r Lanbecius shewd him the root of a Vine into the wood wherof there was grown severall shie of gold which was said to be taken from River grinon in the Vingards of Tokay mines and pretended to be naturall.

M^r Povey mentiond the great Collection of Exoclick plants lately brought from Holland and new tempt in the Bishop of Londons garden at Fulham. D^r Harwood said he was promised a catalogue of them suddenly and would communicate then to the society.

D^r Sloan shewed the figure of the plant and fruit calld in Jamaica Soursop intended for his bulk book of the naturall history of that Island

On mention a made of M^r Watts his experiment of the damage damaged that plants suffer by the exclusion of the light

D^r Sloan said that it was very evident in many instances that Light is necessary to make plants flourish, and keep green.

The same said that the Acaju in particular, and severall other plants to but once in year yeild fruit, wheras severall others in the Torrid Zone yeild fruits continually.

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S^r John Hoskins supposed that 223 being written in Roman figures CCXXIII to Last I I might be obliteratd in the copy and so came to to devon enormous D^r Sloan presented a in the text of Pliny bottle of the a Wine that may was made in peru, from a grape transplanted from Carnany, he said that it grows or the hills at such a flight as to be temperature above the great heals in the plains. it seemed to drink like a sort of old Malaya and had a relish of the Borachie or leather shem Pellejo, or Hoggs Skin wherin it is brought from Peru to Panama and.

Halley read a paper of his own concerning the experiments he had made about the pecifick gravities of the severall sorts of salt which by severall repeated trialls he had found to be sall Armoniac to water as to 14 1/2 to 10. Allom and Birax as 12 to 7. meter as 19 to 10. Sall Gem as 15 to 7. Blow Vitrioll as 13 to 6

D^r Havers read after their part of his discourse about the bones wherin he discoursed about the nutrition and reprentation of the bonds, and by the way gave an Hypothesis of the separation made in the Glands of the severall juices of the body.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-11-06 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Molin related that he had seen had a donation of the flows made for keeping the Kings collection of Exoclick plants at Hampton Court. viz that the homes for including the plants, on the South and made of glass, that the floor is made of tiles laid on Iron plates, and the heat and smoak conveiyed by channels under the floors that run up and down on it. So as to convey the heat to all parts therof as now as may be alike.

M^r Hook mentioned that

D^r Sloan said that in Jamaica the time for planting beans pease and such like pulse is at the same seat on as in Engl and, that then pleached they are observed to thier much better that it planted at an their time, though they will grow were too ll it planted at all sealing

D^r Gate related that in Pling there is a very notable mistake in the word jugera, which he everywhere translated from the greek

θρα supporting them the same thing, but as y^e jugeram of the Lating were much greater than the Greek

θρα 160 240 sixth plings Statue.

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M^r Bembee produced a bottle of Wine that he had brought from Pampeluna in the year 1680, which it very nearly resented the peru mine D^r Sloan presented the last day.

The text of Pliny Lib 2. cap. 13 being consulted in the societys manuscript pling, it was found that the error was therin rectified, it being written in Roman figures 223 this CCXXIII very fairly. wherby that Author is fully vindicated in his assertion that in 223 Lunar Months there is a just period of the Eclipses. A note of this was ordered to be inserted in the margert of the Manuscript.

4 It growing late the remainder of M^r Havers treatis about the bones was reformed to the next meeting

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-11-13 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

S^r John gave the description of the Laconiam or stove of the Ancients.

M^r Hook shew the Tallipot le palm leafe expanded to shew the great extent therof.

S^r Robert Southwell that in perdon they keep a stove, with step ing the Chimney so soon as all the smoak is gone and the only covered with a white Ash wherby the worth will remain for a very considerable line larger than otherwise it world do:

Halley said that Stephanis Thesaurus make the plethron of the Greeks to be the sixt part of a Stadium wheras Jugerum was 240 long and 120 fort wide.

D^r Moulin produced the Catalogue of the Kings plants brought from Holland amongst which being to the much of between 34400 thereon were the true Cinamon different species tree, the Liqunn Collibrimum. Turmerick, Elemifera and for or the tree that yields Gum Elemi

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The Sanguis Draconis Tree or Draco Clurii, Amanas Acostœ or the Queen Pine tree. as &c. The Manchinelle tree. the Mango= tree. Sebestines. Papaya or Pepo Arborescens. Ferula frutico= sa semper virens felins Anisi Galbanifera, Ginger, Colocasia The Gossypium Brasileiram.

Halley said that in the Shinerary of Autoni my he had by some experiments of the differences of places now well known, he had found that the miles there reckoned by, and very short, and very near 100 to a degree.

D^r Havers read the remainder of his discourse concerning the growth augmentation and nutrition of the bones among money wherin he assigned curious remarks.

The cause of the Crookedness of the bones from the unequall nur ishment of the bones on both sides.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-11-20 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

The Viceprd out said that it is a thing practised in Germany Mosco and most contrys, to keep koons warm by stopping the Chimny after the embers begin to be covered with a white Ash.

∗ M^r Hill said that he conceived Muscery glass to be a very good medium to incorrupt the sneak of Chimnes in to which it being objected that rooms; be proposi and that he belived that the glass would intersept the heat of fire though it would transmitt the heat of medium will not intercept the heat as is said glass does. the Sunn.

M^r Hook said that the bark of birch is the materiall wher with the Russia Leather is tanned and that is that that gives it that strong smell it hath, and which preserves it from so long the Perthshiray, M^r Hill said that Chipps of Russia leather will preserve things from the Moath. M^r Hook that the Colour they die their Leother redd with all, is Brasile & Brainlettle read which they came from England.

M^r Hook Southwell said that Grapes world ripen by pitting black Grape to find them much sooner them otherwise which was thought to be for that the beans of the sun and less reflected by a black surface then any other

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D^r Moulin produced an Oxes Eye wherin there was a Cataract, which he opened and shewed that the film so calld is a sort of a thick slimy substance in / pissated upon the Noon & before the pupilla.

D^r Moulin produced a printed paper being a description of the Clock which shews the Motion of the Sun Moon and planetts with the Eclipses &c wherof we had formerly an account from M^r Molineux who had seen it at Coventry at the house of the Maker therof, M^r Watson.

D^r Havers read a farther part of this discourse concerning the Bones particularly concerning that mucilaginous juice which is found to Lubricate the Joynts of this which he said to had discoved the glands that separte it: from the blood then he gave a particular account of the Effect of severall Experiments he had fmade upon this Mucilaginous liquor by the mixture of Acids astringents and other liquors impegnated with various salts.

Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-11-27 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook said that a vine laid upon partiles of a roof would occasion the Grapes to ripen much better than otherwise.

M^r Cripse that Jotties or Butrices on Walls of a garden would peserse a Vines them from the winds. and that these on the west side would not wipon to the same degree and this he con= ceived the reason why the rising Sun is supposed to ripe.

The same that as the side of a hill which fronts the East the land will be considerably better than that on the Westside.

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M^r Hill that the qeilleness of the Easter sun which takes of the hear frost of off the Caerrys in Kent door occasion their ripening much more faster them these on the west side where they and found dry

S^r John Hoskins that be conceived that on the Eastern side of a fridge furrow the warmth finds the ground moist, and so encouragd vegetation whereas the western side is dried before the sunn comes to shine on it. It being a enquired whether it were better to own the famous North & South on East and West in the cultivating the Earth M^r. Crippe that plowing cross is the best way of husbadry for that by this means the Earth of the mddle of Each fridge for soon will come to be exposed to the Air from which it is supposed to receive its Vegitative power.

D^r Moulin gave his Hypothesis of the Cataract in the Eye which in generall be compared to the Mother which is found upon distilld tricular vicos therof waters; separated from the Aqueus humour upon some par particular; vices therof

D^r Moulin said that the best way to known whether Wild foul or fish or the like have been long kild is by the Eye which will in a little process of time be sunk and flaccid wheras in show new killd it is plans and round.

Halley that the was that peclterers know whether mild foub is fresh or no is by the foot, for they conclude that the foot being dry it is cet ain they are staill, if not they are esteemed fresh.

M^r Crippe that the way to trie an Egg whether it be fresh or no, is by the longe, for in a fresh new laid Egg there will be discourd a reusable difference in the temper of the tree Ends therof as to cold.

M^r Hook, M^r Lodwick, D^r Mapleloft, and M^r Perry and M^r Pittfield were balloted and Chosen a Committee to and it the Trears accounts MD^r Stanley, M^r Rolfson and M^r Molt were proposed can= didates at this meeting and approved.

D^r Havers read a farther part of his discourse concerning the Joynts giving his Hypothesis of the Rheumatipue and Govt

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M^r Rafeson this day subscribed his name & was admittd.

On reading the minutes and mention made of the Question whether plowing the Earth with the ridges ad furrows North and South or East and west were better it was said, that it must be better to plow north and South so as to divide the Sun Equally between them, the two sides of the ridg wheras there that in East and West have an one side the whole heat of the day, to dry ad porch it up wheras the other is tuned from the Gunn. and meets the heat requisite.

S^r John Hoskins supposed that the moysture of the foot, in Widld foot output be a better indication of the newness of wild foul than the Eys; for that the foot will admit of more degrees of moysture them can be well discoursed in flaccidity of the Eys which soon grow flaccid.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the Antiquity of Naturall Philosophie, and shewing the great advantages that might accrue to the Nation, if people were Encour= aged to discourse the secrets of the severall artifices used in India and elsewhere, wherby the forreign manufactures are made that are brought to us.

M^r Hook presented to the view of the Society an Indian book of Arithmetick written in the Brackman Character.

The same that he had seen gold wire for the covering silk for weeaving, brought from India far surpassing in fineness those made here.

The same described a sort of Cloath which he said was made by the Indians in America about 500 miles to the North West of Carolina, being a course sort made of a substance that is very strong but neither flax nor temp nor like any materiall substance he had hitherto seen in England. But to shewed the manner of the texture therof, by which he irritated cojued by bobbins as they weave bow lace.

MS_575_109 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-12-11 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a discourse, being a description of a tree or three Voyages or tree thugh Silvia from Russia to China wherin he shewd that of old time it hath been performed as well as lately, and that severall of the places found in the Map of Turkey lately published by the Heer Wilson are there mentioned. There was read an account of the Bones of a Fetus being evacuated by abscesses in the growe and elsewhere, that had lain in the womb severall yours; and the mother had conceived thrice after it, and been delivered of three dead Children at the full time.

M^r Coles tre about the Muscles found in shells of Teuby Oysters was read, and severall of the Shells produced wherin these was best found by digging with a Chissle a small shell fish resembling a Muscle, the biggest not much above half in such long lying concealed in a Cavity under the inner Coat of the Oyster Shell some what larger than the shell fish but there was a passage to each of these shell to bring the water to them through the outside of the Oyster shell wherby in all appearance their nourishment is derived.

Ordered that a Lord be driven up against the next meeting to notifie the Election for the Hook M^r Wilson to

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-12-18 Williamson; Joseph Sr. Joseph Williamson

D^r Stanley this day subscribed his name and was admitted.

M^r Hook supposed that these Muscles found in the Teuby Oyster shells do somewere their cells as they grow by some acid juice that corrodes the shell and so enlarges the Cavity.

One M^r Renatus Garret a frenchman made a preposition to the Society that he could discover the Longitude and Latitude of places at Sea or Land and offered to show an experiment on Land in a square.

M^r Waller, M^r Hook and Halley a committee to examine this pro position.

The proposes lives in Mercer Sheet in Long Acre at this first Brasiers in the sheet.

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M^r Hook read a discourse about a certain plant found in the East Indies calld by the Mears by the Portuguese Bangui which is there used to excite Venery, to procure an appetite & to intoxicate so as to ease the fatigue of hard Labors. vide Linscoten Cap. 79. The same made a proposall that his Weatherclock.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1689-01-08 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

D^r Sloan said that the Nopenthe mention in Homer was in his opinion that it was opinion or made of it.

M^r Hook made his repeat about the French mans experiment Halley produced the account of the φαρμαΚOѴ N

ΣѴθΣ

in Homer.

D^r Gale that hoc Sirion turn exemple may possbly have been corrupted out of observationum or observantium exemple prodidere.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-01-15 Gale; Thomas Dr. Gale

That the name of the degree mentioned in Horner was. calld by the Greek Socliast Thomis quoting ptolemy for it.

M^r Bembde that the divers find a great difficulty to open their egs in shele water not in deeper.

M^r Hook gave an experiment of the solution of salt that the bottom is heavier than the top.

M^r Hook showed a price of glow glass that upon the blast of a Lamp tuned of a fair Ruby read which was made by one M^r Gedd by a preparation of Antimony.

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M^r Hook said that in the heat of the storm the mercury was but 28 1/2 Inches Halley was ordered to give his reason why the Downs was the place where cesar made his desert.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-01-22 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Haughon said that he had given by D^r Croons order 20 grams of crude Opium to an women who came to be able to take it by beginning by a small quantity.

M^r Bembde said that there was a medium Rome who by living given him a very extraordinary dose of Given him was restered to his might sences.

M^r Bembde sais that green pease drie D^r Gale said that sirius is used by pliny for a hole to hide provision in and so it is possible that that it may have been hoe sirorum exempa prodidoue.

M^r Aubury gave an account of a Hurricane in Lincolnshire which was not above amile in breadth: D^r Gale that Nennius the old Brittish Author has such a passage as Cesar ad Dole bollum pagnabat and that at Barhum down there is a hill where where it is a tradition that Q Laborius was stair calld there Jullaber.

Halley read a discourse tending to prove that Julius Cesar fish Landed in Britan Anno 55 arte Christan on Aug 26^th in the after noon to the northward of the south forland and in all probability in the Donors near the place wher none the town of Deale Stards: this he made out by the description given of this Expedition in Cesars commetargs and by Dim Cassins in his 39^th book.

MS_575_112 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-01-29 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

D^r Sloan that a man by taking at Monpellier a very large dose of a Opinion worked 2 days then slept and great 3 Vais and waking foud his bones roar as it baten in a mortar. Halley the like of himself M^r Grillet made his second Experiment.

M^r Hook that M^r Grillet had a hoop about his Legg to regulate his paces insteed of the string he tried with the former day.

M^r Boyles picture in Metzzo Tinto was presented by D^r King or Person D^r Havers presented a West India animal called a Possome which hangs it self into a hook lending by the tayle on boughs of trees and has a pouch under its belly to harbour its young, this he promised to anatomise and give an account therof at the next meeting. It was recommended to the D^r to enquire into the structure of the spondylos Tayle and the muscles therof, which that can give so great a stength to it as to held not only its own weight but likewise 1/2

at much hanging on him.

∗ D^r Havers read a farther discourse the liquor of the pericardium & concerning the marrow and less presend by its coagulation to be of the same kind with the mucilage liquor in y^e treats the uses ther of as also concerning the texture uses and nourishment and uses of the marrow.

∗ S^r John Hoskins supposed that the strenght that is so extraordinary in this hook of the tayle must needs proceed from such a contrivance as that in the Clanes of Lyons, cats &c. wherby they sheath their nailes till such time as they are willing to use them.

MS_575_113 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-02-05 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Lodwick that M^r Martin laying hemp under his pillow was disturbed in his rest and dreamd much and waked often. which ceasd hot till he removed his pillow.

S^r Joseph Williamson related that a pason in Queen colledg taking 3 or 4 which was laid into a sleep that he slept allnight and till noon when he fell into a jurging which lasted very long.

D^r Slone presented a leaf of a sort of tree feam of Jamaica whose seed growns in patches on the extremily of the leafe.

M^r Hook about the pish of the fire tree visible from the center of the pith of the tree.

D^r Sloan said that he had seen the left of an orange take root and grow Halley related that in Barbadoes they formerly made hegdes and fences with the pricles pair or Indian figg. D^r Sloan that in S^t Chistroper the made there patition between the English ad french with 3 hedges of this plant.

D^r Sloan that to the sectioned of Jamaica it is alwais warm but on the north side in the Months of Decemb & January it is so cold as to stopp vegitation and no planter will then plant.

S^r John Hoskins that in Persia they make Ice in the winter by running water over cold stones which.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-02-12 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Evelyn that the under boughs of their trees fall of.

M^r Hook of the manner used by my lord Pembroke to remove trees M^r Evelyn that he hath planted spew trees in pap in the Middle of summer that trived very well.

D^r Sloan that in England there are dug up. two shirtess of fossile wood in England one oak the other firr the first blackisk

The same that he having observed the Leaf of the fossile fir wood accurat ly he had found that there was an exact agreement with the Pinus Maritima of Bauhin which grows no where in this Island but abot the cost of the Mediterranean near monpellier.

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M^r Hook that the water passing through stone take from it a petrifreng quality M^r Evelyn that sometimes there will wenns or excressences grow out of a stone that had been a squared.

M^r Hill that this is to be seen upon the staires called the Kings Staires.

D^r Slone gave a sample of the Jamaica pepper or pimento both least and fruïte upon a sprigg. the tree usually abot 30 foot high The same that in the winter in Jamaica there is a room that breeds in the canes planted then

M^r Hook that they make a sort of sugarcandie in India which differs from ours much and dissoves with great difficulty.

D^r Slare gave in a paper about the accession of Liquors viz that a spirit draw from an Oyle of Vitriol and salt peter will on flame Oyle of Cloves guiaam Sassatras &c.

M^r Molt shewed the Exper with O. Cran Humari. Sassafras Guiacum Oyle of Cloves and Oyle of Carna which succeded. Oyle of Turpertune with cotton hed not suceed nor with balson of Sulfur which yet did where done by M^r Molt in his Laboratory.

An account of a strange flame issuing from the telly of Hoy at Strenten in Nottinghamshire.

M^r Hook produced a passage in solinus concerning the firing of a sacrifice of it self upon the alter S^r John Hoskins that some sorts of Earths are more proper to inbile the monsters of the Air.

M^r Hill about the Palms trees in africa where the water of the dew is ga- thered in the leaves as a Teasle.

M^r Wharton had leave to borrow the MS n^o 220 being pikes Cronicle.

Halley read an account of the S manner used by nature Conetumn that immense quantity of vapour that rises out of the Sea.

MS_575_115 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-02-19 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a discourse of his tending to a indicate his nation of Light published in his Micrographie, in answer to that Theory therof lately published by M^r Hugens; and asserting in opposition to him that the passage of the beams of light was easier through Glass and water them through the Air, wherin he agreed with M^r Des Cautes or lisDarpt Dioptricks S^r John Hoskins said that in my Lord Pembrocks method of removing trees the reason of cutting the great roots 2 years before the removall of them, was that they might shoot out small fibers into the mass of earth depend to be removed, to enable them, to draw instrument for the tree before it can take to the new earth.

M^r Boyle sent by M^r Hook his book new published trecting about Longird and untreeded motions, and of the causes of the Insalubrity or Salubrity of the Air.

There was presented by M^r Mollin a monsters Chicken with having 4 leggs and three wings from M^r Molling.

S^r Robert Southwell said that in Angola there are a sort of Ants animalls near as bigg as ferrets, which will des ray by their numbers and eat upany animall whatso ever even a Lyon, upon which they will sett with such fury that nothing can resist them.

M^r waller producced M^r Harmans book of the Hortus Academicus Lugduno=Batavus, where he gives makes mention of the plant bangue saying it is folius cannabiuis, and promising a full history thereof in his Museum Zeylanicum.

D^r Havers read an account of the dissection of the Possum wherin among severall other curious remaks upon the structure of that Animall. he shewed the great provision nature has made for its hanging it self by, by the numerous and shew tayle large muscles and tendous, wherwith it consists, is , there being no other visible contrivance in the bones or joints therof to lock to when itself so as not to relax when it is asleep.

MS_575_116 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-02-26 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Bembde presented from M^r Wilson an account of a strange sort of Toad from Surinam having cells or receptacles on its back to receive its young, and it is by the natives said to have no uterus, but that the fetus's grow in these cells from the seed of the male. A tre of thanks was ordered M^r Wilson and withall to enquire, whether he had seen himself those fetus's in the back of the old one, and to enquire concerning the truth of the relation of the Numb Eel or Torgerda of Surianam. said to give numb the limbs of the fisherman when he strikes him, with the book though at a very great depth of water.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning M^r Hageus's his notion of Light, and about the Cause of Gravity.

M^r Fatio read a coppy of a tre of his to M^r Hagenius giving an account of the reason of gravity, upon the supporting only, that in the whole universse is repleat with there is disperse a very subtile need matter inpuntely little, so my pass of it and elastick. and exceedingly agitated in right lines, the reflexins of each particle wherof against its neighbour atterus gross bodys, be escaped, and against any other great mass of matter huge floating in them lessening somewhat the swifftness of y^e particles. This he conceived the would drive down all great smaller manner of bodies berrards one another, or towards any the greater mass, and that in the proportion of the Squares of the distance recipe by which is the principall phenomenon of Gravity.

Halley read a discourse shewing that the power of the Sunns heat being in the proportion of the Sines of the Altitude, it would follow that the whole action of the Tropicall Sun under the Tropick in 24 hours and or the tropick at the pole pole where he runs round round the Horizon at the hight of 23 1/2 degrees. was considerably greater, taken in one summ, than that of the Sun under the Equiuorticall, when he comes verticall rising & setting at 6. promising against the next day to give a generall solution of the problem of Collecting the sun of all the sines of the suns altitude in an oblique sphear to any Latitude and declination given.

MS_575_117 Council Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-03-05 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

After the Minute M^r Hook read a discourse tending to prove that the follying of sails in their Horizontall line is an ingreddiment to the ships way by looring part of the force of the wind and that it ought to be rather a lright line: demonstrating that in bending the due posi= tion of a saile too take the greatest and most advantageous force from the forces that fall on saile those rays or an poles of Air &c. wind is to place the saile in a line bisecting the Angle between the ∗ D^r Sloan presented the Manchineel apple, or Mangonellapple togather with the stone an seed therof, which was ordered to be preserved in the repository, and the doctor had the thanks of the Society.

Halley shewed the rule of collecting the whole action of the Sun in any declination and Latitude given. which he was ordered to buy in in writing against the next meeting.

M^r Waller this day presented his perfect Index to all this Books of the Societie, for which usefull and elaborate work he had the hearty thanks of the Society given him.

∗ course of the ship and the riase of the wind, but in these gibbous sails now in use, thate part that is next the wind take the force therof too obliquely, and that part from the wind too directly, and only the middle part of the saile stands in the position requisite to best promote the way of the shipp, all which loss of force would be remidied if that the sails of shipps were made straight, as it is said they matts ails in use in the south seas are at this day contrived.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-03-19 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

Minutes read Ordered that M^r Waller be extratd to emplory some body to coppy his generall to the books of the society Index ad that the Trdēr Joey the clayes therof Halley read his accout of the rule for collecting the heat in any Latitude and at any declination given, either for the whole of the sun &c day or any part therof; by bringing it to the problem of finding the surface of a Cylindwick heat or any part therof:

∗ M^r Henshaw that inter is more copiously fraid in the Hot county D^r Sloan that Halley presented the Hudsons bay partridge the cuticular diseases and ulcers of negroes and much harder to cure than those of Europeans and thence argued a specifick diff erence as to the Skin.

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D^r Sloan said that in Jamaica he had seen a white Child woman born of a black father and mother with fair woolly hair, whereas all Mulatoes being engendered of a black and white have other hair, and he concei ved that the woolly head was as much a characteristick as any other of the Negro race of mankind. shewed before the Company A Woman this day produced a monstrous birth of two twing growing togather by the belelastorm the cartilage rufifamuis to the navill.

∗ There was read a tre from an unknown hard proposing the making of some Experiments in relation to trie whether the right or lest Testicle have any relation to the generation my Lord Pembrooks Lre of either Sex. alleging an experiment made by himself seeming to favour that Hypothesis.

Ordered that M^r Hunt bring in a list of the Animalls thayt are most perished in the Repository in order to obtain others fresh ones to supply the defect

There was read a Greek Inscription from Spryrna being found on the seputure of one Attalus Caii, which D^r Gale took with him in order to examine it.

∗ A Lre from the president the D^r. Hoble Earal of Pembroke to S^r John Hoskins was read, where in he esteems the respect pd him by the Society in choosing him.

President and shews his desire to attend the meetings if his teasure would permitt.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-03-26 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

On weading the minutes.

S^r Rob Southwell said in confirmation of D^r Slones relation of the white Negro that in Portugall he had seen a Negro with red hair, and another with grayw Eyes.

S^r Robt, that negrees are born reddish like other Children but glew black seen after their birth and begin so to do at the Scretum first and so spreading from thence all over the body M^r Henshaw that the find read the Lucian Itel. phildelphos did at a publick show produce a man whose upper parts were white and the Lower black

M^r Hook that black hairless guinney doggs, having skins without hair like negroes will engender puppies some white some black others must with spotts.

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S^r Rob^t. Southwell observed that the barmeedas whales besides their different shape have a different Qualitie from those of Greenland; and besides for wheras the green land whale sinks upon his striking with the Hurpon iron that of Barmedas furino Horizontall and by that means were very difficult to be taken, before the Barmodius were informed of this difference.

M^r Hook produced the description of Greenland by D^r Fogelius printed at Hamburg in 1675: wherin there is a curious description and figure of the Whale of Greenland and of all the other product of that cold both ans clinate mall and vegitable of that D^r Slone presented an Indian cupp and Spoon made of a Calibash or gound skin, and likewise a whole Callabash of that sort out of which y^ethe said Indian Houshold sluk is cutt: which he said was the fruite of a tree not not of a cweeping gound.

Halley presented to the consideration of the society some Queries which he conceived to contain the principall difficulties y^e are found in our Theorys of Light pellucidity and Refraction

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-04-02 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

D^r Sloan said that a Muscilage of Snails will resist fire so as that a man may take a hot iron in his lands. when prepared therewith. he

The same said that he had a receipt of great efficacy by his own experience in this matter, but it being of many ingredients he could not now communicate it:

M^r Henshaw observed that in Africa and in those countries where the people are perfectly black, the skon of the Monkeys are of the same kind coalow perfectly black: which for which reason he argued the colour to proceed from the Climate. Seashell said that he had it from S^r Rob. Clayton.

S^r Rob. that the Oyle of the Parmodaes whale is so penetrating that no call well hold it. and that in shipps that have been laden with it, it has soakd through so as to celon swim on the Sea and leave an Oyles tract where the skipp had passed.

M^r Henshaw that the Monoceros whale, that has a the lorus torns on his head taken for unicorns hornis. has thus horn in Embrie band about 9 inches long even before it exclusion from the Uterus: The observations of the Eclissses at Nurenber M^r Sturmius's his of concerning M^r Ash his tre from Ausburg.

M^r Evelyn gave an account of a mill made by the fall of water into a trybb.

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M^r Evelyn that the same gent had a weaver of making artificiall stone and that the a pavement in S^t James

M^r Evelyn that in Genoa and Venice they make curves artificall stone pavements that well resemble porplying or polished corvall and that there is mixd with it Ox blood.

M^r Hook shewed that M^r Evelyn's Engine for a mill by the fall

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-04-09 Henshaw; Thomas Mr. Henshaw

M^r Henshaw said that at Rome he had seen a Manutebank, that had a ring in which there was a stone like a toad stone top which putting a clear bigger like water there arose a flame not unlike that of a spbull wax candle, which hurt a considerable time the same attested by M^r Evelyn

D^r Sloan sd that in his manner of preparing the skin effectively to resist fire. that fist the huds must be wassd in a very very deterging thing then roastd in another Liquor, and lustly before and ever with atherd matter the which process he thought bitt to keep a secret.

S^r Rob^t. Southwell that he had been informed that in the Rio des Amazones, there is a fish so same that the Indians will smiles to him and stopp his nostrills with straw or the like so that is a little time he swinus to the shore and becomes a pray to the Indians, the to be a great fish of the Cetatius Lind, and much bigger than a Sturgeon.

S^r Rob Southwell that in New England there had been lately taken a verywect great Quantity of whales of the Bermodas as fort, where formelrly that fistery had been considerable used, bit till of late neglected.

S^r Rob^t: Southwell that pender of Amber and in fried impossible Oyle of spicke being well mixt togather, was an excellent preservative for boots and Shoes.

M^r Evelyn moved that there might he drawn up a good History of smegmaticks or things usefull to take out spotts or stains all sorts of out of cloathing whether linnen woolen silk or hair camletts S^r Rob^t Southwell said that near bristoll there had been lately seen an Earthquake, which lasted about 3/4 of minute, but did no dammage.

Ordered that M^r Hunt go to Deptford to take an acount of the mill described the last day, without wheel or cogg.

M^r Eveyln sad that a water mill is much better for the grinding corn than a Wind mill, for that a wild swill being apt to go soon times faster same signs shewer than it ought to do is apt to be bury the come with the Exture dining friction.

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S^r Rob Souhwell that the bottom of Limekilm and tile dust was the best to cover walks with to have then firm and dtry.

A Letter from M^r Ash. from Vienna. was read Elipse began 9.58 Middle 11⁰.8¹ that there is where vison 1^h.12 or 11 to the East.

A Lamp of a Cylinder of powder of burnt bones: instead of a wick and society of Hysh laws to be erected there to describe the severall circles of the Ordered that M^r Ash be desired if inquire if Fullies book de Gloria Empire according to their anotest and thesens. starte and to record what shall hopper on the future. be to be found in any of the librarys at Vienna

D^r Slare presented a sort of substance between a marle and stone much resembling Castle soap. that was fond in a Mine in Constrall The same promised to trie whether the Lamp made with jourder of bunt bone would answer expectation in keeping fire without soot or need to smiff or cleans it.

There was read as Description of the Horizortall sailes of a mill that needs no tending for the alteration of the wind, giving an accout of the Construction of these sailes, their force, their change, and benefit, and the uses they are applicable to. the latter part of this paper was reformd till the next meeting.

Wednesday Aprill 23 the weather being very still and the fox well fitted the triall of the variation of the Magneticall needle was made, and it was found that the noodle dees now varie somwhat better them 5 1/2 drews to the westwards. which Anno 1686. June 16 was found to be no more than 4^o.45^I whence it appears that the the variation is encreased about 45^I in 4 years that is at the rate of 3 degrees in 16 years. which is some what swifter nearly the sam with than 5 1/2 in 33 years, there having been no^s variation observed in the year 1657

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-05-07 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Henshaw that in Borelli's receipt for a substance to kindle fire by a drop of water Linse made of Loadstone is a principl qurrd M^r John Hoskins said that the fish said by S^r Rob. Southwell to be so same as to lett his nostills he in the Rio des time and so stepped seemed to be so by reason they must are not yet accustomed to men and know not the danger.

M^r Henshaw that there is a method of fealing used by the Indian of Mexicc by putting acord over a mans head with two hole for the Eys wherby the birds not knowing it is as man will suffer themselves to be taken by the Leggs Halley that S^r Anthony dem had sheathed a ship with lead which lasted. Many years with only sallowing and scraping and that at Lenght when the Lead was pulld off it was found that the Planck was rathern better preserved then by the ordinary wood sheathing after it had been on 3 times longer than all for wood. and the Lead returned on to the Kings Stones wented inconsiderable of its weight M^r Hunts account of M^r Coelyn's will with out a cogg wheel was read these S^r. John Hoskins sd were usually called French Mills

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M^r Henshaw said that quickline and brick dust made a very exton ordinary firm plaster, that would never perish by welt near as good as Tarras.

M^r Henshaw related that in an old aqueduct at some there had been found a white substance like an opucke clouded Crystall which was supposed to be petrified out of water, that had stood many ages included in the Channel of the Aqueduct an account therof is to be fond in Donatus description of Rome.

∗ A Lre from M^r Malpighius desiring some alterations & amendments to be made in his printed letter de structura glandularan was read

The account of a Comet seen at Barcelona in Spain. was read; by the Author for want of skill, withall defined the millon and site therof.

The remains of the Letter of M^r Gilbert Clerk about his was read, wherin he proposes that this will that twists twists Jersey will might conveniently be applied to low vessells out of a Harbour against by timing the circumstance of a plash wheels as has been practised to a mill on the Thimes. as also ∗ There was read a tre of M^r Jastell concerning one enno thenes a frieze lander, who in India horned brackman and was initiatd into the orders of those religious, wherof he understood all the nations and customs; he left his papers in the had of the Steven Flower an earylistman, after of whom M^r Justell desired enquiry might be made after them, if he were to be head of. To the ing of water must uses the ordinary windmills here been applyed.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-05-14 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

There was produced from M^r Robert southwell shewed confection a of clover budds, of the calld in the figure societys of the since trees sent from the east indies, the mother cleve. with which figure it did exactly agree. On occasion of the sameness of the fish in the River of Amazons.

M^r Middleton sd that the seals wherof S^r John Harborough wintered in shagellam straights. were at first so same that any one might come to them and tabs then, but in lenght of a few days of time they would not suffer any to body come near them discourse arising about the a shine of shipps with lead M^r Middleton said that Load=Should shipps will contract a thick skin or crust of a will be of an inch thick on the Load, which us most considerable on is near the waters edge, S^r John Hoskins sd that the will dissolve with the admixture of salt put in at the End of a pipe, which will make it mm out at the other end. as had been practiced on the down to down the Now river water tripes when they were taken up with an icy ceae in then after the treat frost.

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M^r Hill gave a relation of a method used at Lyons to prevent y^e shipping of the Ice, and from after a hard winter in a sleep place. viz by making fires which separated it in to parcells, and so look of the weight therof:

The same that there is a small Island calld Tariff just within the Streights mouth, on the Spanish shore, which is all a mass of shells for the whole hight of the Island: which is many fathoms above the water

M^r Middleton that the Houricanes alwais begin at the NE and in an hours time gain their whole violence, vearing to the Eastward by the south and so sell the SW. where it is again calm, then encreasing as by the rebond of the air it goes round about about to the Norward, with the former violence, and ceases not till it came vomd to the NE again.

S^r Godfry coply gave in a tre from York. wherin there is an account of the reflection of the York Minster in a cloud seen any all 17 cast past, in the morning, soon after sun rise. the battle wents and pinnales appearing very visible on the cloud: Halley supposed that this appearance might be produced by the shade of the pinacles on a low cloud, which he judged frō that the shade reflections all seend to fall from the sunn D^r Havers presentd a sort of said wax made out of bay berries by boiling which then must began to shine. them, wherof a good quantity has been lately sort from New England, which is sad to be a very good balsom for green wonds, and is used in New england for a lamp light.

M^r Smith the Book seller presented from M^r Ray his Synopsis. Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum.

Halley produced some places in Plottings Geography which seen contradictory to the same in his gastronomy, whence it might be argued that they were the works of different Authors; such as the Latitude of Cataractonium in Yorkshire, where in the Astronomy the lenght of the logicall day is said to be 17^h 3/4, and in the Geography 18^h, and the difference of Meridians of Babylon and Alexandria is said by the one to be 50^min. by the other 1^h 1/4.

M^r Middleton related that in Surinam those is a long & sort of Snake of the smaller sorts of near twenty foot long, which will swallow any creature that nasses by, first twisting it self about the neck and strong long it, and then sucks it in gradually, at the mouth whole that for a long time after they are very unwealdy and lie without being able to get them selfs, when in which condition of they be fond by they the ants of this country will sease on the snakes and beginning with their Eyes devour them to the bones. in two or 3^d day time.

MS_575_124 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-06-04 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

S^r John this day was pleased with the good liking apprevation of the society to give his approbation of apove for the printing M^r Molineux's his book being a discourse of Dipsticks. and the constriction of Microscopes and Telescopes M^r Henshaw said that with their demonstration and sious uses. being mixed with Ice will make it dissolve at first, but then freeses again, which is therfore used in Italy to fix bottles in cases for long carriage.

M^r Henshaw sad that in the East Indies there are at sort of Eathen vessells for Keeping water cool for drinking, and that in the Canaines there inare vessells of stone of a spongy nature, which will keep make water cool as it straws though them and clarifie it.

D^r Sloan said that pended of Almonds being mixt with Hippocras, constitution much to make it clear.

M^r Henshaw that the water of the Mile being is fined with the admixture of Almonds Looses the quality which it might here had, to give the flux to these that drink it. as is common in the hott countries. Halley, that Hurricanes are fond in the Latitude of the Caribbe Eylands, in many parts of the word as in the bay of Bengall, and in the China Seas; and that the time of these Storms is generally in the latter end of August or September soon after the return of the Gun over the Zenith of these places. the like observed about the Mauritius Island and the south part of S^t Laurens where those Storms are observed in January or February and at no other time.

Halley sd that clark, as he rid been told, would prevent ants from climbing us trees, for that the small attorns of Clark adhereing very little to the tree would fall of with the feet of the ants, so that they cold not pass this ports the place so coverd with Chalk M^r Lodwick that in Holland there was to be seen a Cone of seaven viz 13 foot round, foot high and bulk proportionate, an account therof to be seen in the Hartem Carvant of the Last week Halley shewed & proposition of great use as he conceived for saving of powder in the casting of Bombs into a place that is either higher or Lower than the gunn, and besides more certain, viz by placing the line of direction of the chase of the piece, so as to lie between, divide equally the single large the object and the Zenith into two parts, for that in that case the ball would be cast farthest on the line tending to the object with the same MS_575_125 charge, and the distance of the object being given he shewed. how to find the charge of powder necessary by the follong analogy as the Radius to the Tangent of the Angle of Elevation of the piece, so the Horizontall distance of the Object, to the distance the Charge required would hit on the Horizon when the piece is elevatd to 45 degrees: which being fond and the gunner having a Table of the charges of powder requisite to shoot the^so found distance, on the Horizon when his piece is elevated 45^yr will be able to make therewith his shott at the lower or castle entended and that with the greater certainly for that 4 or 5 degrees of Elevation will make in this case no sensible difference in the fall of the shott. He shewed likewise that as projecties made on the plan of the Horizon equally distant in Elevation above 45 degrees, would litt the same object; so in this case of objects above or below the Horizon. the two elevation that would strike the same mark are equally distant above and below the line that bisects the angle at the gun between the Zenith and the said mark.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-06-11 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning M^r Dee's book of spiritts, which he said he had perused and he conceived it might be no other than a cryptogoraphy, or secret method of writing wherby he conceald either Philosophicall or Chymicall or Politicall matters. he being a very extraordinary knowing Man in his time and not to be supposed capable of such incoherent indiculous funcies as are in appearance antlined in that Book. M^r Hook doubled that Ice water having Salt admixed would not frees again, but that salt laid on a piece of Ice would dissolve it on the side it lay on but would freese the other side tunder to any thing it lies upon.

S^r. John Hoskins gave some small squares of a sort of stone wherwith the Romans had formerly used to make their Mosaicks which had been found at Witchester or woldchester near strond water in Gloucestershire.

MS_575_126 Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-06-25 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

M^r Bembde produced a battle of Corunna migaticia which it was last wine were which grew near by the Company and was found to be very like a good langoon whitewise and might be afforded as cheap if it were not for the high duches on spanish wines.

M^r Henshaw that in Spain fit is a very common shiny to have freeze their Bottles were as described it of wine with Iceleard salt as he described it the last day

This examining much discourse about the nature of freziacy M^r Hook sd that in a very hard frost in the year 1662 to the best of his remenbrance, the Earth in a place exposed to the cold was not frozen above a foot deep.

M^r Henshaw said that in a very severe frost whilest he was at and, which was at Copenhagen, he had reputed the hardest that had been in many years. been informed that the frost never reached 4 foot into the Earth.

∗ Halley described the Island of Ice seen by one M^r Colson. a friend ∗ S^r John Hoskins gave a relation of the River Mole D^r Gale gave a related of severall wells that he had ob= served severall wells at Woodcase warren on the Bansteed dorons where they are so deep as to be accounted 80 fathem, and that a great many of these wells are footed within a small campass of growed which place he fnd Cambdens had conjectured to have been a Roman Nation and as he believed their Noviogmagus mention in Antonomy by unlivered: M^r Hook produced a piece of a Candles and made of the Oyle in New Englad of which a sample was of Baytouring presented the other day by D^r Havers: S^r John Hoskins gave the Description of M^r Charles Howards garden and Vineyard near Darking and of all his apparatus for making his wine.

∗ S^r John Proposed that the Vignerous of Germany might be the most proper persons to cultivate our Vines, being acqurated with the means of preserving the Vines from cold, and with the helps to cure the acrimony or greenness thereof of the Wine.

Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Society 1690-07-02 Hoskins; John Sr. John Hoskins

On one S^r Godfrey Copley that in removing trees after the ditch is day round them it is necessary to S^r John that Water under Ice will not frese Halley that in Guienne and to the westward of Carcassone by warm of the pyrenena to the southward. no olive trees willshire, but only to the Eastward where the southward covers over the Sea.

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S^r John Hoskins related that S^r Stewy Capoll had a green house to preferre tender plants viz that having shutter of wood availd nothing but afterwards lining them with flamewell

M^r Henshaw that water being posited in Spirit of wine will freese therin. asf if in the open air M^r Henshaw was of opinion that there was some internall heat in wool which remained and. S^r John Hoskins gave the manner of making a pond or receptable of water on bdry bare downs orz by well claying the bottom with a stiff Clay, then proving it with sand and in that stand pitching it with stones and then fishing the whole with snow S^r Joseph Williamson said that a person in Kent that was a kowing man in the Art of making such pruds had afraid line that there must be time trewed on the pavement of Clay to prevent the worms pentrating and the gottom to making hole wherby the water would soak away.

Halley supposed that a pavement of brick laid in Farras or File dust would be the best sort of bottom for such ponds and the charge not very great.

Halley that the fittness of the shelt to the bore of a piece was of great consequence in Gunnery, that he was well assured that by observing this, more powder might be sa= ved than would pay for the turning our great cannon shott that the as another great advantage arising from it was that a shott would be made with much more certainly, and a third that gunns need neither to be so long or so weighty as ave now in use, and yett do the same or more execution, which is of exceeding use for the ease of carriage of Artillery by land, and for to ease the sides of shipps at Sea. To confirm this he said be had often seen a brass shott of 14 ^tt weight cast by 2 ounces of pouder from barrell about 10 inches deep above 550 yards, which could not have been useless the shott had been truely fitted to the bore.

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On occasion of Reading the minutes.

M^r Henshaw said that he hath frequenly used to cover his fruit in Winter, with a wett blanket which frozen becomes very close and shutts out the air and besides the Ice in the blanket by a sort of sympathie does attract the Cold and preserve the fruit after the some mannner as frozen Eggs are saved by putting them in water.

M^r Henshaw produced a sample of the Spanish peas calld there Garavangos which grow like a sort of Vetch with short podds not above 4 in a podd and the back of the podd beaded with two edges.

The same produced a bean pod of an extraordinary figure, there being 4 junctures of the shell, wheras ordinary by there are but 2 of them two: this was occasioned by some differ tion of the beans when young, it being formed on opening that the beans lay double to towards the end of the pod the M^r Hook produced a sort of bean sale to be that is a certain vomit, the eys or places where the beans were affixed to the shell were orderly ranged called in Ceylon, Camara walla, which was given him by Capt Knox and was gathered by him on y^e Island Mauritius. who sais the same grow plentifully on the Isle of Ceylon On discourse about the advantages of the fitness of the bullet to the bone of the piece, it was ordered that the experiment of shoating a candle out of a gann to see if it would penetrate a deal bord, shoud be tried at the next meeting and M^r Hunt was ordeded to get things ready.

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The Experiment was tried of shooting a candle through a board, it was made with a carabine of musket fore and about half a candle weighting about an ounce and it was found that it went through a board of about 7 tenths of an inch thick, and battered itself with great force against the wall.

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M^r Ballock who formerly Novemb 10 1686 made a proposall about encreating thought, this day came before the Society and said he had made a modell of his Invention and was willing to show it the Society; Intoduccing a plan figure therof It was ordered that M^r Hook, M^r Waller and Halley be a com mittee to go see this engine and make a report therof.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning the Late earthquake at Nevis and the Leeward Islands explaining the severall phenomena recited in the Gazett of June 30 by the support tion of an explosion of vapours under ground like a subterraneous to .

M^r Hook in this become supposed that the Veins an marble are occasioned by Earthquakes shaking and breaking the stone after which clests are afterwards filled up with a petrifying juice.

Halley produced a pocket book of his wherin among other Mathematicall things there is long since written a proposition lately published in the Acta Lipsiensie as new by on M^r Bernoulli: The who values him self upon the Invention. proposition is that the parameter or diameter latus rectum of any Conick section is alwais equall to the circular base of the Cone cutt at the same perpendicular distance from the Apex therof, that is whence it is that all Cornick sections passing at the same distance from the Apex have the same Latus rectum.

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M^r Evelyn said that he had lately seen my Lord the Earl of peterborough in the Tower, who had been long afflicted with the Grapsie and that having in his drink taken commonly 20 grains of the or dwarf Elder seed. in white wine.

Semen Ebuli for made or foundars togather then intermitting and repeating it again. his leggs had been reduced to their proper size though they had been before of an uncommon bigness.

M^r Hook read a discourse concerning a preposition that he advanced the last day, that the inflammable materialls within the bewells of the Earth do gradually burn away and consume and are not again repared, whence he conjectures that the search greater Earthquakes and eruptions have been formerly than since our historys have given any account. The same supposed that the Earth does gradually grow older and decay and all the products therof are less and not so vegete as in former Ages.

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M^r Eveyln said that the naturall force of the Earth where it has not been cultuivated or worn out particularly in America has a very great vegetative faculty and may well be supposed to equall the fertility of any of the past ages of the world.

D^r Vincents tre to M^r Eveyln &c was read wherin he requests the societys directions about laying out his mony on a purchase Ordered that D^rVincent have his opinion consulted as to a fee fan rent and that agaist miclious lands he may be accommodated with as much or as little taken of those wents as he pleases.

D^r Tyson produced an extraordinary stone out of the bladder of an ancient man which was all ever rough with asperities which seemd to rise like corralline substances it was flattish and about an inch and Guff thick but most rough about the edges some of the points being broken showed that manner of the growth accression of the stone by accression of new matter.

S^r Theodore de vaux presented by S^r John Hoskins as the Fraxis Mayermiana lately published by himself.

S^r John Hoskins supposed that the burning damps found in mines are an instance of those subteraneous explosions which M^r Hook supposes to be the cause of Earthquakes.

Halley related that M^r Ralphson had invented a method of solving all sorts of equations, and giving their roots in infinite series, which converge apace, and that he had desired of him an equation of the fist power to be proposed to him, to which he returned an answer have to seaven figures in much less time that it could have been affected by the known mehods of vieta.

M^r Hill Produced a description of a sort of coralline plant called Androsace growing on stones under water and lukning hard in the Air, it was taken out of Canaptrigde Atramentis.

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M^r Aubrey related that an old woman of about 60 years of age had been cured of an inveterate Dropsey by boiling in her drink Soapoort or Saponaria about a pond weight in each 6 gātt: The same be related had been done by a decoction of Bruscus or Butchers broom.

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D^r Tyson related that he had lately a patient who had a sort of Dropsicall disease beg. breast sunck after into his belly & at Lenght into his scrotum and there grew as bigg as his head. which be cured by string purging.

S^r John Hoskins related that a friend of his M^r Thomas Child of Nortwick had a large oack loren to pieces by lightning, and that the wood therof being after used for fire wood the it emitted a vapour which stunk of brimstone that it was eat scarie to be endured.

D^r Havers related that a friend of his bringing saffron from the East Indies was advised to lay eggs amongst it which he was told would keep and preserve it which accordingly ousperd his expectation.

M^r Hook related that he had seen M^r Bullocks engine which be said be conceived was entended to propagate strenghby the mecuy of a pendulous sway and the motion of a weighty wheel, but that it was not as get perfected.

M^r Haughton said that Safflear is the flower of the heard Carthamus.

M^r Ash^s better of july 17/27 from Vienna was read. together with the Observations of M^r Eimmart and M^r Wurtzel faur of the Eclipses of the Moon on Mart 14 1690: