437
May the 13. 1680.
mr mell Before the Society Sat M
r. Mellin who has Long made
it his pleasure & busine
sse to make small ^/Len
ses for/ microscopes
call shewd
seuerall of the Society some of his own making which were exceed
ing small and yet very good, one whereof being /a/ Double conuex
was noe bigger then this [ink dot] viz
t about a twentyeth part of an inch.
It magnifyed the obiect exceedingly and yett was very cleer. he pro
mi
sed the next Day to present a set of such Len
ses.
After this M
r. Hooke giuing an account that he had seen seuerall
small animalls in the water wherein mint grew, the water was
examined w
th. a micro
scope and seuerall of tho
se small long
creatures were Di
scouered by the vicep
t. & diuers of
the company
Then the viceP
t. M
r. Henshaw tooke the chair.
The minutes of May the 6
th. were read. And thanks was orderd
to be returnd to M
r. Short for his Present by M
r. Perry.
The viceP
t. moued that some of tho
se small micro
scopes might
be sent to Sig
r. Malpighius as a present from this Society
which was well approued of by the Society.
M
r. Hooke produced 3 Letters from M
r. Leuwenhoek one to
the Pre
sident & Fellows of the Society Conteind his thanks for the honour
they had done him in chu
sing him a fellow thereof. A 2
d to M
r Hook
acknowledging the Receipt of the Diploma sent, and A profe
ssion
of the great e
steem he had
of thereof w
th. a profe
ssion of his Zeale to
serue the Society in w
t he was able for the future as long as he liued
A 3
d to D
r. Gale conteining an an
swer to the D
rs. addre
sse by the
La
st Letter and
. . . . an account of some further Di
scouerys
made in the Iuice of Plants of animalls &c. m
r. A
stin tooke
this letter & promi
sed to put it into Engli
sh againt the next
meeting it being written in Dutch.
M
r. Hooke produced 3 Papers Deliuerd to him by S
r. Theodore
De Vaux being some of S
r. Theodore Meyhernes conteining
some account about the mixture of metalls. they were
orderd to be tran
scribed and the papers to be
again returned
to S
r. Theodore w
th. the Societys thanks.
M
r. Hooke Produced the two fir
st
sheets of a di
scour
se of M
r Iobe
Ludolphus
Sec Counsellor to
the Emperor & Duke of Saxon Gota
being a history of AEthiopia and the kingdom
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