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that water neutes
have young di
ssected at
the sea
son of
the year haue young neutes perfect
ly formed w
thin them.
D
r. Grew sayd that silk wormes
the eggs had the worm w
thin them to be seen through
theshell. R H affirmd he had seen them come out /of/ them aliue the re
st of
the shell re
maining to
stick to
the place where its way was fir
st Layd
m
r. Hen
shaw ob
serued that all wormes in nutts proceed from w
thout by eating a way into
the kernell which way in a
short time cloa
seth vp but leaus behind it a kind
of cicatrix. the like was affirmd of
the wormes in Galls oak apples and seuerall other excres
sencys /of Plants/. It was ob
serued that all galls haue either a
.. . . hole in them by w
ch. the worm hath eaten
its way out or els the worme it self may be found in the middle of it
D
r. Croon affirmd that the chicken might be di
scovrd formd in
the cicatricula of
the egge by the
help of microscopes. he was de
sired as soon as conueniently to shew the same at a meeting of this
Society. He complaining of the defect of micro
scopes for such v
ses. RH. sugge
sted some further
Improuement of that In
strument by making v
se of the conuexity of
the surface of the liquor it
self
(putt vpon thin plates of mu
scouy gla
sse) for augmenting the body w
thin the liquor as al
so for augmen
ting the body beyond
th it. the same might be done by small drops of fluids ^/Let fall/on the Leafs of coleworts
or oyled or any oyled or Grea
sed superficies. as also by the small drops at the end of small pipes or
sticking on small threads of gla
sse or a single clew of silk. the said globular
fluids/transparent bodys/ being vieud
by the help of good micro
scopes. vpon this occa
sion M Hook mentioned
his way againe his way w
chhe had formerly acquainted the Society w
th. of making micro
scope gla
sses w
th. smal drops of gla
sse made
by melting vp the ends of threeds in the flame of a candle into a globular figure and then grinding
all away vpon a flat saue a very small segment of
the spherule. and soe made v
se of as of a plane
commen gla
sse either for a single or compound micro
scope. He was de
sired to shew some
of.. . . specimen of this
.. . . at the next meeting.
D
r. Grew produced a peice of the Palmetto or cabbage tree of Barbadoes. con
si
sting of a great
number of cylindricall coats inwrapping one an other but loo
s from each other, he was de
sired to examine it and see w
t information might be Learnt from it of the nature of vegetables.
M
rHook promi
sed to indeauour to procure some of
the wood of the said tree from m
rHart.
D
r.. Croon by the recommendation of m
r. Boyle propounded m
r. Oliuer Hill
. a candidate
D
r. Brown Propounded m
r. munchhau
sen D
r. of Law & natiue of Dantzick for a candidate
m
r Hooke Propounded m
r George Ent the Elde
st son of S
r. George Ent a Candidate
vpon a di
scour
se w
ch. aro
se concerning
the water poy
se S
r. Chr: Wren De
sired that there might be
Drawn vp a catalogue of Experiments that might be tryd w
th. that In
strument. and conceiud
it might be very v
sefull al
so for examining of metalls, but declard not the way -
D
r. Croon made an obiection from some a
ssertions of Galileo in his book De In
sidentibus
Humido but vpon Di
scour
sing the matter it was found not to contra
dict any thing that was a
sserted by m
r Hooke concerning the same but appertaind
to some Di
sputes about the quantity of water ray
sed by the sinking of the
poi
se.
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