431
Thursday Apr: 22. 1680
M
r. Henshaw the viceP
t. tooke the chair.
The same Produced a Letter Directed to the Royall Society from D
r.
Wülfer Dated from Norimburg. Apr. 1
st. 1680 sent in answer to a
Letter of M
r. Theod: Haake Giuing a more full account concerning
a body which was there found to be conuerted into hair, as he Receiued it
from the Sexton him
self that Dug it vp viz
t. that the body of a woman -
buried about 43. years since in a black wooden coffin in a dry yellowi
sh earth
It lay the Lowe
st of 3 buried bodys. the couer being removed the
whole . . .
found tho
se of the whole body appeard perfect but all couered w
th hair
long, thick and curled. the sexton going to feel the head the whole shape
of the body fell to Du
st soe that nothing remained but a part of the heel
bone. And the hair which couerd the whole body which at fir
st was very
soft but being expo
sd to
the air it grew very stiff. A paper of which hair
was al
so inclo
sed in the Letter which was a
stiff red hair but Rotten.
It was De
sired that M
r. Haake should Returne the thanks of the Society
to D
r. Wülfer for this curious obseruation, and D
r. Gale al
so was de
si=
red to begin a correspondence w
th him.
D
r. Clench Subscribed the Ingagement to the Society & was by
M
r. Henshaw admitted fellow of
the Society Same.
D
r. Ti
son at the same time produced 3 teeth sett or growing in a naturall
sockett, together al
so w
th. a paper of curious white hair, both which
were vpon Di
ssection taken out of the te
stis muliebris of a woman w
ch Lately Dyed. This being the more remarkable for that it was much
of the same kind with what the D
r. had formerly found him
self vpon
Di
ssecting of another woman. He was Deired to Draw vp an
account thereof in writing again
st the next Day that it might
be registered before he returned the substances themselves to the
Person that co
municated them which was D
r. Welman.
Mr. Hooke Read a paper of M
r Haughtons being answers to seuerall querys
about wiredrawing was read and thanks Giuen to him for his care in
that Inquiry, he was al
so de
sired to Informe him
self yet more fully
concerning that manufacture and to bring in a further account thereof
the same Produced a blew bead much e
steemed by tho
se of Guiny as
al
so some Gla
sse beads that had been made to counterfet the Colour
but they were ^/in/ noe wi
se soe beautyfull & cleer of colour as that of
Guiny, this was tryed to be melted in the flame of a Lamp but could
not be melted but it flawed & crackd like a Stone. the counterfeit
ones melted very ea
sily.
Ref: CELL/RS/HF_433 © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
