| Description | Present at the Council: The President; Mr Aerskine; Sir Robert Moray; Sir Paul Neile; Mr Henshaw; Dr John Wilkins; Mr Colwall; Mr Hoskyns; Dr Ball; Mr Oldenburg
Voted that the Duchess of Newcastle, having intimated her desire to be present at one of the meetings of the Society, be entertained with some experiments at the next assembly; and that the Lord Berkely and Dr Charleton be asked to give notice of it to her Grace, and to attend for the meeting next Thursday.
Ordered, that for the said entertainment there be made ready the experiments of colours, formerly mentioned by Mr Boyle; the weighing of air in an exhausted receiver; the dissolving of flesh with a certain liquor of Mr Boyles suggesting, etc.
It being moved again that such instances as are to be inserted in the 'History of the Society' be decided, it was ordered that it should be left to the President and Dr Wilkins to agree upon such as they should judge fit for purpose.
Number 25 of the 'Philosophical Transactions' was licenced. |