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May. 8. 1679.
m
r. Henshaw the vice p
t. tooke the chair
The same Returnd the Phosphorus presented by m
r Slayer and
Gaue an account of some tryalls made therew
th. Among many
other It was very remarkable that
the by seuerall tryalls he could not
perceiue that the light of
the moon had any sen
sible operation vpon
it at all though he had tryed it to the be
st Aduantage. And m
rHooke sugge
sting that po
ssibly by collecting the radiation of that
body by a burning Gla
sse it might haue some sen
sible effect
of the stone It was De
sired that he should make tryall thereof between
this and the next meeting & Giue
. . . at account thereof at that
time.
The maps and Ground plots of Seuerall townes in Denmark sent by
m
r. Resen to m
r. Henshaw were here produced & shewn to this
meeting
D
r. Grew Read a section of his Di
scour
se and de
scription of the
Repo
sitory.
by the way m
r. Henshaw obserued that Riuers that are much fre=
quented by crocodiles haue their water made soe offensiue by their
mu
sky smell that they cannot be made v
se of by the Inhabitant
for drinking
m
r. Crisp Related that in some of the Riuers of Africa where
theGamby company trade they are soe frequent that 20 or 30
sometimes of them will follow a bote vpon tho
se Riuers.
S
r. I. Ho
skins - mentiond An old statue
wher at Rome of
theRiuer nilus wherein men
wh were carued killing of crocodiles.
Seuerall Query were made concerning the Rattles of Rattle
snakes
whether they were the epiphysis of the tayle bone? or whether
they were not the end of the skin ca
st off euery year?
As al
so concerning the vnicornes horne whether it were the
horn or Rather the tooth of the fi
sh caught about Groneland
m
r. Hooke produced and read a paper conteining a De
scription of the way
of flying inuented and practi
sed by one mo
r Besnier a smith of sable
in the county of Meyn. The contriuance of w
ch. consi
sted in ordering
4 wings folding & shutting like folding sashes to be moued by his hand
before & Leggs behind soe as to moue Diagonally and to counter
poyse each other. by w
ch. means it was sayd he was able to fly from
a high place crosse a riuer. to a pretty Di
stance.
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