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mr. Hooke produced and Read the Preface of A booke (which he had procu
red to be translated out of High Dutch,) being conteining a Description
and naturall history of spits bergen or Greenland written by one -
     of Hamburge who had been there himself and vpon occa
sion of querys sent out of England had made it his business to informe
himself more particularly concerning all matters therein Desired and
by the Help of Dr. Fogelius of Hamburge who had translated and
Deliuerd these querys to him had compiled and methodised the same
and for the better illustration of all particulars had added a great
many copper cutts conteining the pictures of the most remarkable parti
culars . vizt of the whales and other fishes together wth. those of the ani=
malls birds plants &c-. He further added that he had deliuerd the said
booke to a German in order to haue it put into English -

Sr. Robert Southwell hereupon mentiond that there was that there was
a kind of whale in          the oyle of wch. was soe penetrant
that twas very difficult to find vessells to hold it wthout Leaking
The same also mentiond an Expt. made vpon a square plate of Glasse
vpon which a string was stretched to a certaine tone which tone
vpon the application of heat to the glasse was alterd

The Duke of norfolk mentiond that the Earle of Alisbury had
heard his child make a noyse whilst in his Ladys womb.

Sr. Robert southwell mentiond a Relation of a woeman in Lorraine
that had hauing been a very long time wth child wthout being deli
uered in Despair had killed her self whereupon being opened it
was found that the chld wth.in her had been dead for a considera
ble time and that one part of the child body of the said child -
was found petrifyed by the waters in her womb

mr. Henshaw vpon the occasion of a Discorse concerning freezing
mentiond that were vpon freezing of wine the part that remai
ned in the middle would be very strong & spirituous but that
the other parts that were frozen would be waterish & al
most tastlesse, Also that the greatest part of the wine froze and swelld out
/of the bottles thrusting out the corke before it/
Dr. Croon mentiond that the time of freezing was almost instan
=taneous
mr. Hooke Related the expt. of producing the figu regular figures by
freezing . by mixing snow and salt in the body of a glasse violl &
then putting vpon the out side of the same a small quantity of
Spt of Vrine./

mr. Hooke was orderd to make wt. hast he can wth. the weather clocke he
Designes as also wth. a very accurate Barometer.

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