455
Iuly. 22. 1680.
S
r. Chri
stopher Wren Vice P
t tooke
the chair
The minutes of
the La
st meeting were Read wherevpon m
r Henshaw gaue an account
that he had obserued an Infinite quantity of other yet smaller animalls in Ginger
water, and that he conceiued it was much more prolifick than pepper water. and
that it had be
side a great number of very large ones w
ch appeard soe large
that he conceiued their Leggs finns or parts for motion would be seen if
they had any, and therefore conceiud they had none -
S
r. Chr: Wren conceiued that the rea
son why they were not vi
sible was
the swiftne
sse of their motion.
It was De
sired that the
se small creatures might be examined w
th the be
st micro
scope
could be made to see if any further Di
scouery could be made of their way
of mouing. D
r. Croon acquainted
the Society
tht m
r. Mellin had promied to
fitt vp one of his be
st micro
scopes for that purpo
se - -/
D
r. King related that he had ob
serued the motion of the
se creatures among
the Globules of Blood, by mixing a little blood w
th pepper water.
S
r. R Redding affirmed he had
seen multitudes of them in water in w
ch o
siers had
tryed been
steepd.
D
r. Gale Read part of a Letter from D
r. Bohn and brought in 7 little
tracts of Philo
sophicall matters sent by him to the Society.
which were the
se which follow:
1. Di
ssertation
u Chymico Phy
sicar
u prima de copor
u Diolutione. per D I Bohn. & M I. W Paul Lip - -
2. ____ Secunda decorporum Combinatione seu concretione. per D. I Bohn & Ernet Gotofreid Hey
se Dauticanes
3. Iac: Ioh Wence
slaj Dobrzensky de Nigro Poule Prae
seruatiuum vniuersale naturale. Pragae. 1680.
4. De Contagione dieneni Exp
m. medic
e D
s. Io: Bap: Alprunj. - Pragae 1680 4
to. 1/2 sheet.
5. Idem. 8
to. ibid. 1/2 sheet
6 G: Baldwini Epitola ad D
m. Io
m. Heuelium de machina coeleti & Protea Hyperbolis. Rati
sb 79.
7. Subiectj maculinj Anatomen Publicam Lecturis Dementius D.I: Bohn. Lip
siae 1680.
Dr Gale was De
sired to Returne
the Societys thanks for his present
and to send him the Late book of mr. Boyle as al
so that of
D
r Ti
son both in queres
D
r. Crone Gaue an account of m
r. Warrens way of Preseruing
bodys by a powder. He was De
sired to bring him to the Society
& to Preuaile w
th. him to shew here the Exp
t. which he promi
sed
to indeavour to Doe _ twas supposed that the
. . cheif ingrediens
of
e Powder was somew
t of vitrioll -
S
r. Chri
stopher Wren w
th. the approbation of the Society signed a bill
for the table and In
scription set vp in the Long gallery -
There were
two seuerall Exp
ts. tryd.
The fir
st was of the extraordinary
strong
sound of a Gla
sse funnell.
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