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Nou. 7. 1678.

mr. Henshaw the vice President tooke the chair.

The minutes of the Last of october were read, whereupon
occasion was giuen of discoursing of Cold and freezing. & mr Hen
shaw obser affirmd that by Experience he had found that the coldest
weather in Denmark would not freeze a whole bottle of sack.
mr. Hooke shewed the Planisphere and Discription of the starrs of the
southern Hemisphere made by mr. Hally. wherevpon mr. Henshaw _
was of opinion that. they would be very acceptable presents to such
correspondents abroad as were louers of Astronomicall matters if
the book & Planisphere were sent to some of them from this Society. to
wch. the Company agreed, and it was Desired that the secretarys should
send one of these bookes to Mor. Gallet, another to mr Buckerfeild and
a 3d. to the Abbot De La Roch. in the name and at the charge of the society.

vpon a further Discourse concerning Hott bathes mr. Henshaw was of
opinion that they might proceed from some subterraneous fires
because they are generally found neer such places where those
subterraneous fires break out as in Iceland & /one about naples especially/ And where
as it was vrged that they appeard many times in places that
were farr enough from such burning mountaines, he An
swered, that though there might be noe appearance of fire yet
there might be some subterraneous fires conceald that might
be the cause of such heat, Dr. Croon objected that such could hardly be
supposed wth.out hauing certaine spiracula or breathing places neer
them, none of wch. being found neer I /oure/ Bathes It was hard to suppose
there should be any such fire. It was added that twas possible there might
be such spiracula which we knew not of at Least we did not know
what . . . space the subterraneall fire might possesse. vnder whe
ther it might not spread some miles besides just vnderneath the place
where the hott fountains are, and whether there might not be subter
raneous communications between vulcanoes at a great Distance
He added further that there were some hundreds of such vulcanoes
in the East & west Indies . Sr. I Hoskins added that the Dutch
had noted about 100       in their plantations
mr Hooke noted that It was very comon to obserue a mist to hang about
the tops of Hills when the air both aboue beneath & round about was
cleer-

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