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mor. Pappin produced a Peach which he had this Last Sum
mer Inclosed in a Glasse wth. artificiall Air condensed and
cutting the same it was found very sound & plumb,
he Gaue noe further account thereof But that It was
an Expt. of mr. Boyles ^/of/ which he was now printing
an Account which would shortly be publique

The same also produced two obs his windgun made in a walking
Stick wherewith he shewd first the extraordinary conden
sation of the Air therein by Letting it Leasurely out into
a glasse filld wth. wthater of wch. an account is entered in
the Iournall book -

And next he charging it againe wth. condensd air shott a bu
bullet wth. it in the Gallery, the effect much the same
wth. some other expts. in the same gun formerly made here
of wch. there are accounts already entred in the Iournall
book of this year -

Sr. Iohn Hoskins Propounded mr. Thomas Piggot fellow
of Wadham Colledg in Oxford a Candidate of this Society

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