112
for the year now pa
st.
This being done
the RH. shewd
He his second Exp
t. to wit /A great/
of the multitude
very
small animalls in Pepper water which ^/being putt into small gla
sse pipes not bigger than a piggs brisle and viewd/
appeard by the help of
the A mi
cro
scope w
ch. he had
fitted for that purpo
se ^/very much improued since
the la
st Day appeard very plainly/
/to moue to & fro in it in great numbers/ this was done in order to examime
the relation w
ch.
mr .. . . /m
r/ Lewenhook had sent to this Society of the Di
scouery
he had made of that surpri
sing phenomenon. And It was very euidently seen by the
greate
st part of tho
se pre
sent that there were in
the Raine water in which whole
Black pepper had been seuerall Days
steeped, great numbers of exceedingly
small In
sswimming to and fro
& This water ^/being/ put into very slender pipes not bigger than a piggs Bristle& that they were seuerall of them bigger then the Day before. Some suppoed they saw Leggs or
finns, but others could not Di
scerne them. The same al
so shewd that there were some such kinds
of In
sects in the steepings of wheat berly oats ani
sseeds. peas, beans, &c but that they Differd from the
former in shape and motion, seuerall others hauing a verticiuous motion as it were round a center
.. . . magnifycation of these objects by this microscopyDr. Crone proposed Dr. /Thomas/ Gale the master of Pauls Schoolmr Baker of for Candidates
Dr. Wallis propounded Dr. Plott Of Oxford for Candidate
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m
r. Hooke promi
sed that he would
at the again
st the
.. . . next meeting yet further im=
proue the micro
scope and
to aduance doubted not to aduance the same as much beyond
the common micro
scopes yet v
sed as they are /now/ beyond the naked eye. that he had
formerly Long since Di
scouerd a method to that purpo
se but that by rea
son of a weakne
sse in
his eyes he had forborne to pro
secute the the same. that he had many years since
.. . .shewd the same to this society
....... ^/and had de
scribed the same at Large in the present of his micrographia in
the 20
th. page from the beginning/. He was de
sired to pro
secute that ruder
taking w
th. w
t expedition he could.
D
r. crone propo
sed D
r. Thomas Gale the ma
ster of S
t. Paules
SchSchole
....m
r. Baker, of Lauenchurch for Candidates
of the SocietyD
r. wallis propounded D
r. Robert Plot D
r. of Laws of
.. . . Oxford for candidate
It being Late the Society Ro
se and adjourned their meeting till S
t. Andrews Day
Nou : 29.
the. 1677. the Society
in sat not by reason of their meeting
on
the morrow being S
t. Andrews Day.
[In margin]nou: 22
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