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Iune. 27. 1678.

mr Henshaw the. vice President tooke the. Chair.
mr. Weeks brought in and Read a paper Deliuerd to him by some quakers
corcerning the great Benefit that would accrue to the nation by the
setting vp & incouraging seuerall new manifactures wherein to keep
the poor at worke. to wch. the Society returnd this an for answer that their
addresse was more proper to the Parnt. the matter not properly Lying before this society

The Letter of Hugenius . Bullialdus and nazarj read the Last Day were
Diliuerd to Dr. Grew to answer them against the next Day. as likewise
to Informe the Society the next Day wt. the bookes Desired by nazari would cost.
Sr. Io: Hoskins Desired that the correspondence wth. malpighius might be reuiued
(Vz. the Letters Red.

The notes of the Last Day were Read. herevpon by the by
mr Henshaw obserued the mentiond the thickning of wine upon the surrou
ding it wth. snow. Also the condensing of water on the outside of a glasse conteining wine & Ice
As also he noted that mists were obserued to Rise more from medows.
that Lay neer Riuers ponds &c. then from the Riuers themselues.
He further obserued that the Disappearing of ships at sea was often occasi
oned by the thicknesse of the air neer the surface of the sea. and
not by the roundnesse of the earth altogether.

As also that Franciscus Patricius had obserued much the same thing vpon the
Lago Di Coma. where by thicknesse of the Air neer the water
the sight of a steeple on the other side of it was often intercept
=ed. which was made vse of by him as an argument againt the
Roundnesse of the Earth. Though (as mr. Hill obserued) very
fallaciously.

mr. Hill obserued that the Hundreds of Essex were much more healthy
in a wett /& cold/ year than in a Hott & Dry. the reason of wch. he
conceiud proceeded from the more powerfull operation of the
sun in those Dry & hott years, for the Drawing vp those -
noxious vapours into the air, which in other years rise
not at all but remaine in the ground.

mr. Henshaw obserued that the heat of the sun produceth a much
greater effect vpon the surface of the earth then vpon the
surface of the Sea. And hence proceeded those Land & sea Brises
in Hott countryes. the air and vapours ouer the Land being /euery/ day by
more powerfully expanded and /euery/ night more suddenly condensed then
ouer the Sea. the earth holds the heat Longer & exhales when the
water has giuen ouer

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