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m
r Henshaw further gaue an account of the manner how
the said Kephler hatched chickens by the help of
. . . furna
ces the proce
sse of w
ch. he had seen, which was that he had a
wire grate placed ouer a Balneum ^ /at a foot Di
stance w
th. a couer ouer pulled vp by a pulley/ in w
ch. grate he set the eggs & soe
turnd them euery day for 18 dayes together, then he Layd them
on a haircloth in a Stoue ^ /neer the ash hole/ where they hatched themselues w
ththeir own bills in w
ch Stone he kept them for three dayes till
they could feed themselues which was when
the yelk was consumed
in their Bellys. He further added that in Egypt they doe it
w
th. Camells dung -
S
r. Ionas more noted that S
r. Chr: Heydon together w
th Drebell long
since in the minorys hatched seuerall Hundreds but mentiond not
the way but that it had this effect that mo
st of the chicken _
that was produced were Lame & defectiue in some part or other
He al
so added that the same Drebell had an art by w
ch. he could
produce a fly in an howers time any where
D
r. Crone related his own obseruations made w
th the eggs of a pul
=let which he was a
ssured had neuer been trod by a cock and yet
layd 5 or 6 eggs in a week, this he was a
ssured of as hauing
kept
the pullet in a Coop from the time it was hatched & neuer
suffered any cock to come neer her. the
se eggs being sett vnder
a hen proued addle and effeat, but being examined by him before
they were set vpon he found
the cicatricula as in other eggs & the
body of a chicken formed in the Cicatricula. Herevpon the D
rwas De
sired to pro
secute this exp
t. yet further and examine
the cicatri
cula w
th. a micro
scope & to shew it to
the Society
S
r. Iohn Louther, promi
sed to procure Some of
the coperas oare
. . . . .tryed by Robert Hooke in order to haue it examined/by mr Hooke/
The same also desired to be informed of the nature of
the swedi
sh mine
rall & what quantity of copper it held & how it was smel
ted. -
S
r. Iohn Hoskins took notice that Glauber had shewd the way how
to extract a metal out of the pyrites
It vpon a Di
scour
se about the ways of making salt m
r. Hooke Related
that he had been newly informed by a D
r. that liued in Ireland that he
had now Salt workes in the - north we
st part of Ireland where he did
boyle vp the sea water into salt in Iron pans by the help of turf
or peat, to great profit or aduantage.
S
r. Ionas more obserued concerning Peat pitts dug in the fenns that
they will in a short time fill againe w
th. good peat fitt to be digged
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