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Then Dr. Grew Read some parts of a Discourse he had completed concerning
flowers -

and also shewed the Delineations of things taken notice of by him
for that purpose

It was moued that he would print it & Dr. Wallis propounded that it was expedient to print
all of that kind in quarto that they might be bound together
After this .. . . a Letter sent from Paris to mr. Barnard and by him commu
nicated to mr. Haake was read containing seuerall remarkable informations
concerning Philosophicall mechanicall and other Learned matters. Thanks
[In margin]Intn 11 fo.   was desired to be returnd to mr. Barnard by mr. Haak. and that he should like
wise be desired to communicate wt further of that kind should come
to his hands.

In this Letter there being some information concerning
Captaine Langfords paper about Hurricanes presented to this society by Sr. Robert
Southwell was read. wherein he gaue an account first of the occasion of his
comming to the knowledge of foretelling Hurricanes, wch. was his kindness to
an Indian he had in his power who afterwards dyed in Southwick. Secondly
an account of the the signes & prognosticks of Hurricanes and the great
benefitt he hath had thereby of preseruing ships at sea & goods on the
Land. Thirdly his Conjectures and concerning the reasons and causes of
these wonderfull & violent stormes. -
Sr. Robert was thanked for his communications and he hauing Desired that the
Society would furnish him wth. some further querys pertinent to that purpose
Sr. I Hoskins mr. Hill & mr. Hooke were Desired to Draw vp such as they
could thinke of for that inquiry.
Dr. wallis affirmd that in the earth quake wch. hapned at Oxford in the year
1665 he had obseru'd a very considerable /& sudden/ fall of the Baroscope. though
he himself did not obserue the concurrent accident of the earthquake
mr. Hooke affirmed that he had for those 15 or 16 years constantly obserud
the Baroscope. and that he had always found that ^/in/ the said instrument the
was always very exceeding Low and fell to that station very suddenly.
whensoeuer any any considerable storme of wind and Raine had happed
in that time, and that whensoeuer the said was obserued to fall
suddenly very low it had always been a forerunner of a very great
storme suddenly to follow something wthin 12 howres. and therefore
he hoped that this Instrument might be of very good vse at sea in or=
der to the foreshewing an insuing storme.

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