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Ian. 17. 1677.

Entred.

The President was present the whole meeting.
The minutes of the Last day were Read. to some parts of wch. some amendments
were desired vizt. Dr. Walt: Needham vpon the mention of wormes found
in the heads & brains of some creatures added that those were not found any
where in the head but vnder the skin and in the cauity of the os frontis
/which in sheep & kine extends vnder the horne/
Dr. Grew affirmed the same from his own obseruations -

Sr. Iohn Hoskins affirmed that he knew a person who by looking vpon the wheat
whilst in the blade knew wch. would proue smutty and which not, and it was
suggested that Dr. Plott had a theory of that Accident by wch. he knew
how to preuent it in the choise of his seed before sowing.
Vpon some farther Discourses about the Barometer. mr. Hooke suggested
that he had already she brought in & shewd the Society seuerall of his Expt
in order to Elucidate a theory he had of that subiect, and that he had as
yet Diuers others behind which he Designed as fast as conueniently he could
to bring in likewise, and when they had been all shewn to set down the theory
of that matter as he had conceiud it.

mr. oliuer Hill affirmed that the Expt. wch. vpon tryall the Last Day had not succeeded by rea
son as he said that the air was then moyst and foggy and consequently according
to his notion had noe Elasticity. vpon his making tryall of it since found that
had succeeded as he expected -
Sr. Iames Langham being Ballotted was chosen by all present as was also -
Mr. Theodorus Kirkringius of Hamborough
Then the President Propounded mr. Chetwind for a candidate

mr. Hooke Propounded Mr. Ioseph Lane
mr George Ent Propounded Mr. Foster
Dr. King Propounded Dr. Edmund Dickenson

for candidates

Then mr Hooke produced a letter from mr. Leeuwenhoeke wch he mentioned the
Last Day to haue Receiud, part of wch. being translated out of Dutch into English
was /he/ now Read, conteining the writers thanks to the Society for their soe
kind acceptance of his Last communications. and his complyance wth. their Inuitation
sent him by mr. Hooke to communicate such other Discouerys as he should make, to
wit, a further account of Diuers obseruations he had made wth. his microscope
since the last wch. he had sent to the Lord Brounker . . .

of the 2d of January 1676, St . n

concerning the receipt of wch. he was very solicitousto be informed. wherein he th here he informed the Society of his farther obseruations about blood
milk flegme &c vizt. that those pipes formerly mentioned were found in his own as well
as in eeles Blood. that the Globules of the Blood conteined six Lesser wthin them that
both the one and the other were extensible into a great Length & would afterwards
Returne to A Globular forme that the greater were all of equall size but the Globules of

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