| Description | Present at Council: Lord Bishop of Exeter, Vice President; Earl of Northampton; Mr Henry Howard of Norfolk; Sir Robert Moray; Mr Aerskine; Mr Dudley Palmer; Dr John Wilkins; Dr Wren; Mr Colwall; Mr Hoskyns; Dr Walter Pope; Mr Henry Oldenburg
Mr Henry Howard was sworn
Dr Wilkins moved that Mr Hook might be considered as to the payment of some money he thought due to him from the Society; but the orders concerning that business not yet being extracted out of the Journals, it was referred to the next meeting of the Council.
Sir Robert Moray moved that the Council would take care of supplying the defects in the Charter of the Society. The motion was approved.
Ordered that the President, the Earl of Northampton, Mr Howard of Norfolk, Sir Robert Moray, Mr Aerskin, Mr Palmer, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard and Mr Hoskyns, or any three or more of them to be a Committee to consider both the particulars wherein the Charter may be defective, and the remedies for such defects. Committee to meet for that purpose at Sir Anthony Morgan's lodgings on Thursdays in the afternoon and report to the Council from time to time
Sir Robert Moray proposed that the Council would take into consideration, how the experiments at the public meeting of the Society might be caried on; whether by a continued series of experiments, taking in collateral ones as they are offereed, or be going on in the same way as has been done hitherto.
This left for further consideration at the next meeting, as also whether the experiments for propagating motion and the magnetic ones, should not be prosecuted by the Society, although Monsieur Huygens and Mr Ball have engaged themselves particularly, the one in those of motion, the other in those of the magnet. In the mean time the Secretary should consult the Journal, to see what had been ordered concerning this particular.
Several experiments of transfusion were suggested; to try mutual transfusion, between old and young, sick and healthy, and that both of the same and of different species. Particularly suggested it should be tried on a mangy and a sound dog; and on a diseased horse and an ox or cow, to bleed the cow, to be killed, into such a horse.
Ordered that the Earl of Northampton and the Bishop of Exeter be asked to speak to the Duke of Buckingham if he could accommodate the Society in York House for their meetings. They were asked and promised to speak to the Duke. |