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Iuly the 22. 1691.
Sr. I. Hoskins vicept.
   The minutes of the Preceding meeting were Read. and vpon the mention of Mr. Houghtons propo
sall, he promised to Deliuer to R Hooke the paper and his obseruations therevpon in writing.


The same gaue an account that he had informed himself by strict inquiry and found that there
are annually brought into England 45000 chests of Oranges and Lemons together, and that each
chest doth contain about 500 oranges or Lemmons, being each chest of about the capacity of
3 bushells. which in all makes 135000 bushells. or 22500000. oranges and Lemons together

vpon mentioning the Iron Cynders. Sr. I: Hoskins related the vpon the first setting vp the iron works in Ire
=Land, they carryed ouer the Iron cinders from England for the more easy melting of the Irish ore, but
that they had since Discouered great quantitys of stone in that country ^ /in the north of Connaught about Slego/, but it is not certainly kno[wn]
when or by whom they were made and then Lift. He further added that the Country people here in
England esteemed those cynders to be naturall and some kind of stony metalline substance & not
Artifically made by fire But that mr. Folio vpon the consumption of some whole heapes of
them in his Iron work, had found many Roman Coynes and seuerall other antiquitys which
shewd them to be made and piled vp by the Romans, as particularly a Little Image of a boy
supposed to haue been the Genius of a Legion, and to haue been fastned to the ensigne staff.
/he likewise found an old furnace soe buried./
Dr. Gale acquainted the company that he had met with a passage in . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . that the Emperor Seuerus had caused great quantity of
trees to be felled and Layd in boggy places to make ways passable for his souldiers, he therefore
queryed whether the trees found in the marses of cheshire Lancashire &c and now Digged out
might not haue been those some of those soe placed /out/ by Length of time sunk deeper into
the ground? But Dr. Slone objected that the trees which are dugg out of those marses
haue both Roots and branches yet intere with their bodys and soe could not be there pla
ced by such meanes. mr. Hunt being called to tell his knowledg of them hauing seen very many
of them taken vp and made vse of them affirmed the same thing, that he had seen -
some of those trees of 20 yards Length in their body, and that some of them were firr and
others of Oak, both of them yet very Sound, and that the oak was a black as Ebony. and very
hard. that they are vsually found at about 6 or 8 foot vnder the surface of the ground
vpon Reading the Account of mr. Meisters Loadstone, Sr. I Hoskins Related that a hoop or band
of iron which incompassed the body of the stone from pole to pole and serued to keep the caps
fast and close to the poles of the stone (which is vsually made of siluer or brasse) has been found
by the said mr. meister to Strengthen the virtue of the stone and to make it take vp more then
when that band is made of Siluer or Brasse as it has been hitherto vsually done. yet some con
ceiued it could not add much to the virtue comunicated to the capps because the Strength of the Stone
Lay in the poles and Little in the intermediate parts, howeuer others were of opinion that it might
Receiue and communicate virtue by Reason that in a vniform stone each part had equall virtue
as is found by Diuiding the stone into peices each of which will haue their Distinct poles, though
they were such parts of the ^ /whole/ stone as Lay furthest off from the then poles of it
mr. Hooke Read a Discourse vpon the two treatises that were Left by the 3 strangers which were
Recomended to him to peruse and to giue his thoughts concerning them at this meeting. In which
he noted that the Thesis of Elias Camerarius Conteined an Ingenious Hint or proposall tht
the B Experiments and Discouerys made by the help of the pneumatick Engine might be of
Great vse to help /for/ the explication of Seuerall phenomena of Physick as for the explication of
the naturall & preternaturall constitution of the blood & humors of the body, the vse of Respiration
and the Distempers that are generated for vpon account of any Defects in that operation
the phenomena of Spasmes, convulsions, winds, cramps &c other Distempers of the body such as
epidemick feavours, as also the processes obserued in the chirurgicall cure of woonds & the like
But that he had not taken notice or mentiond that the engine it self might be of considerable
vse for the cure it self Of those and seuerall other Distempers of the body which He conceiued Dr
Henshaw had many years since mentiond in his Aerochalinos. And As for the other treatise of
Dr. Reiselius which conteind a Description of the Wirtemburg Siphon, he conceiued that there was
noe Discourse therein mentiond concerning Siphons but what was known as Long Since as Hero
who has treated much concerning them & their vse saue only that the cause of the rising of the water
in them has of Late years been Discouered to be caused by the pressure of the air and not by a fuga vacuj as
was formerly supposed.
mr. Smith Sent exemplars of Seuerall new bookes which he had newly Receiued from beyond sea
to see if the Society thought any of them fitt for their vse, vpon the perusall of which the Society
made choice of these following which they ordered to be bought for their Library. to witt
LLudolfi Hist AEthiop: 2. Coment in High Aethiope. Freherj Theatrum Viror Illustr. Numus Pantheus. Wagenselius
de hydraspide. Gronovius de Peunia veteru. Paulinj Lagographia. Ars Excerpendj.

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