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may the 1st. 1679.
M
r Henshaw the vice P
t. tooke the chair
A Letter from S
r. Peter wych ^ /Directed to m
r Henshaw/ Dated from Hamborough
Aprill 18. 1679 was read Giuing an account of A pacquet of
Letters w
ch. he had Receiud from S
r. Iohn Paul and conueyed
by one Iohn Iohnson. Profering also to serue the society to the
vtmo
st of his power in the
se parts.
The Letter and Pacquet of S
r. Iohn Paul being Receiud and c
omuni
cated to m
r Pitt was likewi
se produced.
The Letter Gaue an account of his Indeauour to Procure from M
rPresident Re
sen his collection of new mapps & De
scriptions of
Denmark
in order to get De
sired by m
r. Henshaw in order to
haue them In
serted in the first volume of the English Atlas.
now Publishing by m
r Pit . w
th. this Letter came a pacquet
from m
r Re
sen. conteining first his Letter wherein he giues
an account of his whole vndertaking in Generall for the
particulars of w
ch. he referrs himself to the other papers w
chare yet in m
r. Pits's hands. He Declares himself willing to part
w
th. the whole worke now almo
st ready for the pre
sse , at the same
Rate w
ch it hath co
st him viz
t. 2700 Rix dollers,
mr. Pit was DisirdIt was De
sired that m
r. Pit should be consulted w
th about this affair
that soe m
r. Henshaw might Returne him an answer suitable to
the ciuility proferred in his Epi
stle.
Together w
th. this Letter, were shown two of his mapps. the one of the Island
of Gothland and the other of the Island of Borringholm both very par
ticularly & curiously De
scribed. As also
a sh the first sheet of a
Discour
se of Erasmus Bartholene now in the Pre
sse intituled -
De Aere Hafinen
si Di
ssertatio. Giuing an account of the Situati
on and air of Copenhagen.
D
r Grew then Read a part of his De
scription of the Repository
being his chapter about the Animall & animall sub
stances there
in kept.
Then m
r. Hooke produced his new way of ordering peices of Elm for
themaking a hygro
scope. vpon which It was De
sired that there should
be one of this kind prepared to stand in the meeting Roome
As al
so that A Barometer after m
r. Hookes way should be prepared
for the meeting Room
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