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Iuly the 15th. 1680.
mr. Henshaw vicepresidt. tooke the chair.
The minutes of Iuly the 8th. were Read.
vpon the first Paragraph thereof. mr. Henshaw gaue a further Description
of the part of those small animalls he had observed in Ginger Water and
supposed those parts wch Mr. Cox which mr affirmed were protuberant and
swelling were rather hollow & concaue, and mentiond the obseruation wch had been formerly taken notice of in viewing a Guinny through a microcope that swelling figures often appeard hollow, and hollow, swelling
He also Desired that mr. Mellin should be spoken to, to fitt one of his glasses like those
which mr. Cox doth make wth a plaine glasse before it as being more ready then that
he makes ve of /

mr Leichners Letter to mr Hooke was Read and It was desired that Dr. Gale should answer It.
The account of the Expt. of Sound in a glasse with water was Read and It was
Desired that the Expt. should be tryed the next Day before the Society wth. some other
glasses, to see wt. farther Dicouerys may be made by it.

mr. Hookes Letter to Dr. Leibniz was Read, concerning the further vsefulnesse of
the Philosophicall Language & Character.

Dr. Bohns Letter was Read
Then the expts. to be made in the exhausting Engine were tryed but the Engine
was found to be imperfect and soe nothing could be concluded certainly from them
the engine vpon Remouing into the place where the Society met hauing proued
Leaky soe as the Receiuer could not be well Exhauted. It was orderd that
Mr. Hunt should put all things in Better order against the next meeting.

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