411
March the. 4th. 1679/80
The President tooke the chair.
The President Read the Rules (now fair impre
ssed in a sheet of
Pa
st bord) which were orderd by the councell for the method of pro
ceeding at euery meeting ^/of the Society/ for the time to come, which Rules are
always to Lye vpon the table at the s
d meetings and the Per
son in the chair is de
sired to see that they be obserued-
The s
d Rules are also to be produced at the next meeting of the
com
tee. for Exp
ts. At w
ch. meeting the s
d com
tee. are desired to con
sider of w
ch. Authours (that haue written of matters pertinent
to the bu
sne
sse of the society) shall be fir
st considerd and of the
persons they shall think of fit ^/& at Leasure/ to pervse them ^/& make extracts of them / & to Recommend
the said authours to the persons soe pitched vpon
The time of the meeting of this com
tee. to be on Tuesday next in the
afternoon in the Repository & m
r Hunt to giue notice to such of them
as are not now present.
The minutes of Feb: 25 were read, where vpon the Matter of the
Booke of D
r. Becker was Di
scour
sed and becau
se it was thought that
all m
r Flamstead had said concerning that book was not ent[red]
in the iournall he was desired to bring in his account fo it in wri
ting the next Day.
m
r. Perkins supposd that the Dryne
sse & moy
sture of the air was a greater
cause of the variation of
the Pendulum clocks than
the heat & cold.
m
r Henshaw was of opinion that the heat and cold might alter them con
siderably, in as much as the air it self in cold country did seem to freeze
and couer all things w
th. a fro
st. m
r Perkins supposd that the standing
of
the Dutchmans clock in noua Zembla might proceed from the foule
ne
sse or ru
st thereof.
m
r Colwall Gaue an account that m
r Hide was well pleasd that the Soci
ety had the Peru
sall of his Letter, and that he had moreover proferred
to a
ssi
st the Society by co
municating any thing he should meet w
th con
si
derable to their De
signe.
m
r Haughton produced a plate for Drawing of wire, not yet drilled as
al
so a broken peice of another wiredrawing plate which had been v
sed
al
so a peice of mixed mettall of the colour of gold w
ch would not co
st
aboue 5
sh. a pound, which was desire should be exami
nd by weighing
to find
the specifick grauity on tuesday next, and then returned to m
r.
Haughton. he al
so ^/
. . . . ./ gaue an account
and of the weighing of two bullets the
one of Lead & the other of tin cast in
the same mould and of the Difference of
their grauity in air & water, and produced the bullets to the Society
He further Gaue an account from a Siluersmith of his obseruations about
the wiredrawing plate which was to this effect. that this metall breakes
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