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D
r. Gale, Related that there had Lately hapned a very
strange
accident to a Riuer in York shire called Burr neer ma
ssom, w
ch was that all the fi
sh in the said Riuer for many miles euen
th to
the entring into the sea were all poysoned & killed, the Rea
son
of which is not known but 'tis supposed that It might be occa
si
oned by the breaking out of the earth of certaine minerall
waters, And soe much the Rather becau
se tis well known that
there are many mines of Lead and Coles not farr off from it.
S
r Iohn Hoskins obserued that QuickLime thrown into water
would poyson the water soe as to kill all
the the fi
sh in a pond.
m
r. Haughton produced & Read a Letter of D
r. Beale
about earthquakes. as al
so about the phosporos propo
sed after
a way
proposed by Mr B experimented by M
r. Boyle
It was De
sired that m
r. Haughton would make a coppy of it for the
Sr. Rob Society
S
r. Robert Southwell Proposed S
r. Iohn Persivall K
t. & Bar
t a Candidate of this Society.
A letter of Signior Nazary Dated from Rome. Dec. 7. 1680
was Read. It was De
sired that D
r. Gale would continue a Corres
pondence w
th. him.
D
r. Gale Gaue some account concerning a Book that was Lately
Publi
shed by M
r. Burnet of Cambridge concerning an Hypothesis
to solue the Phenomena of Noahs Flood consonant to the
scripture the writings of Antients & the cartesian Philosophy
and vpon the De
sire of the Society he promised to bring in an a
account thereof in order to print it in the next Collections.
S
r. Theodore De Vaux promised to bring in a way for Stay
ning of Amber /by sinking in/ of any colour and w
th any figure whereby
the animalls in amber might be curiously Imitated.
Mr. Haughton Produced a Paper of the By
ssus or a
ki kind of silk cotton, and De
sired that the society would
consider of w
t v
se it might be in trade for that Great
quantities thereof might be had at very Reasonable
Rates.
M
r. Aston Returned Rhedj Del oechiale and Gaue this account of it
that his De
signe to proue that a Florentine about 400 years since
had found out the v
se of spectacles, vpon the hearing that some other
person had before that had such an Inuention. S
r. R Southwell sayd that Galilieo
inuented telescopes vpon much the like occa
sion. by hearing another had found it.
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