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Ian. the 23. 1678/9

Sr. Ioseph Willamson tooke the chair. -
The minutes of the 16 instant being Read gaue occasion to
occasion to Inquire further of Sr. Ionas more concerning mr. -
Flamsteads obseruations. To wch. he answered that a quantity of them
were ready for the Presse but the Bookesellers were vnwilling to
vndertake the Printing of them. wherevpon mr. Hooke was Desi
red to speak wth. mr. martin concerning it.
Sr. Ionas more also gaue a further account that mr Flamstead
and mr. Hally had ^ /newly/ made some obseruations In order to find
out the Parallax of mars now acronicall and Retrograde
and that he had found from examining the obseruations by -
calculation, that the Parallax of the sun could not be
more the 30" nor lesse the 10". which he conceiud was much
neerer than any had hitherto certainly obserued it.

vpon the mentioning the turning copper into gold by a liquor
mr. Pouey Related that Sr. Thomas Williams had told him that he
had cutt a copper farthing in two and throwing it into the liquor
the same was dissolued by it & that vpon euaporating & capell
ing the Liquor And coppelling the remainder he had found the
same weight of the farthing in good gold. - He further added
that mr. slingsby supposed it to arise from the coppers precipitating
the gold that had been formerly taken vp by the liquor.

The President . . . related that his maity. had lately Receiud
a Letter from Vienna wherein were inclosed some curiositys concer
ning the way of making gold. conueyed by mr. Schroter.
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vpon an occasionall Discourse about teeth mr. Henshaw mentiond
a Relation he had met wth. of ^ /artificially/ setting in new teeth in the place
of old ones plucked out, adding wthall that it was obserued that
if the new ones were presently inserted soe soon as the old ones
were drawn out the iaw bone and gumms would coallesce &
inclose the new planted tooth as firmely almost as if it
were the naturall. and added that one monsr. du pont. vpon -
drawing out a wrong tooth & finding his mistake had presently
clapd it in againe into its place and closed the Gum which there
vpon remained as fixed as if it had not been drawn.
He gaue also further a Relation of a young Lady whose teeth being

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