265

December the 19 1678.

mr. Henshaw. the Vice Presidt: tooke the chair

The minutes of the 12th. instant were read. which gaue occassion of
Discoursing about Pearles and of the places of finding them wherevpon mr
Bemde Related that many pearles were found in . . . of /a/ Riuer
Passo which Runns into the Danubius neer Passo:
that the said Pearles were very good and that they were found
in the very mud of the said Riuer and not in the shell of any
fish, and thence It was supposed they were cast out by some
fish out of their stomacks for that it had been obserued by
Dr. King that the Pearl in oysters was generated in the sto
mack of that fish.

There was also a further Discourse about the manner of the productio
of metalls in the bowells of the mountaines. wherevpon It was mr -
Henshaws opinion that many metalls as gold were generated
and perfected in the superficiall parts as well as in the body of
them, but mr. Hooke Indeauourd to explaine how those bodys -
might be originall bodys belonging to a Much Lower Region
of the Earth and that they were not anew produced or
generated, but only by earthquakes & subterraneous er
Eruptions thrown vp from their more naturall place
and by the violence of those fires melted out of the mine
ralls in which they were there bedded, and that thence they
came to be Dispersed & scattered into small graines &
Dust and found intermixed wth very heterogeneous bodys

vpon the mention of mr. Locks Letter Sr. Iohn Hoskins Related
the way of making verdigrese wth the Husks of grapes ex-
after the expression of their juice and small plates of copper
thrown and buried amongst them.

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