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Iuly the 25. 1678.

mr. Henshaw the vice President tooke the chair

Dr. Grew read seuerall ^ /Latine/ Letters which he had prepared for answers
to the Correspondts -

The first was a Letter to mr. Heuelius in answer to a Late Letter sent
to him about the Air an information concerning the account between him and
mr Oldenburges of some booke of his Left in the Hands of the said Oldenburg.
The 2d. to Sigr malpighius about the expectation of the society of his Further
Discourses about vegetables.
The
The 3d to mor. Hugenius

The 4th. to mor. Slutius

The 5th. to mor. Bullialdus.

The 6 to Sigr. Nazzarj

The 7th to mr. Held of Hamborough.

It was ordered that mr. wicke should make coppys of all these into the Letter
booke for that purpose -
A Letter from mr. Leibnitz Dated from Hannouer           was read
giuing an acount &c -
It was order that Dr. Grew should prepare an answer to the same against
the next Day.

Sr. Ionas moor Read part of A Letter of mr. Townley sent to him from Paris
conteining an account of wt. Borelli was doing in order to improuing of
telescopicall Object Glasses. As also about seuerall new experiment of
changing colours by transparent Liquors.
as also of Dr. Tabors successe in Curing Agues
And further that mor. De Schales that writ the Cursus mathematicus was Dead

Then the minutes of the preceding meeting were Read whereupon by the
way mr. Hill mentiond that he had been informed by a fish monger that
he had found the stomack and gutts of a salmon full of grasse, and of an
other full of fishbones.
The vice President vpon the mention of Whales noted that there were
reccowned by some authors neer 50 sort of the cetacious kinds -

Vpon occasion of A Discourse about Poysons. mr. Hooke ^ /told gaue a Relation which/ Produced a peice
of Spunk called by those Planters Punk he had from a Vir
ginia merchant who had Liued long in those parts and who had been very
curious and Inquisitiue into all sorts of naturall curiousitys, that the only
and certaine cure of the venome of the Biting of the Rattle snake was a
certaine substance found in the wild walnut tree Calld by the Planters the Hil
cans-tree being A kind of spunk but calld by the Planters Punk. It Growes
wthin the body of the tree and is found by a kind of black hole or nauell in

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