| Description | Present at the Council: Dr Wilkins, Vice-President, Mr Boyle, Mr Aerskine, Mr Balle, Mr Evelyn, Dr Goddard, Dr Clark, Mr Palmer, Mr Hill, Mr Oldenburg
Mr Hook was also present, according to the order of the last meeting
This meeting was to consider further the experiments fit to entertain his Majesty, with several of the Members present appointed as curators of the following experiments;
Mr Boyle
1. To make the Mercury stand above the usuall station
2. To make a consistent substance of Spirit of Wine and a certain other Liquor
3. To make two Liquors smoak by approach
4. To sink a substance in a Glasse, by pouring in water
5. To make two polished marbles adhere, notwithstanding, a great weight appendant to the undermost.
6. To make water ascend by Suction
7. To turne a greenish Opacous Liquor, partly into a transparent red, and partly into a whitish Substance, by the affusion of a cleare Liquor
8. To try the Magneticall Experiment of altering the Polarity, by repercussing the Extreams of an Iron rod, made red-hot and refrigerated; and also of destroying all the Magnetisme, by striking it in the middle.
9. To destroy the attractive vertue in a Loadstone by heating it red-hot, whilst it keepeth the directive virtue.
Dr Goddard
1. To provide his Hygroscope with Pulleys and Lutestrings
2. To make a great weight float with a very little water
Dr Ent
To bring in the anatomy of a Lobster and an Oyster, to be drawn by Mr Hook
Dr Clark
To provide the Collection of Insects he mentioned at the precedent Meeting
Colonel Long
To being in his Apparatus formerly offered by him, July 6 and for that purpose to be written to by Mr Oldenburg
Mr Hook
1. To take care of preparing those Experiments, that stand upon his Account.
2. To make ready the two Thermometers, and Dr Wrens invention; One of Tin, the other of Glasse.
3. To make an Artificial Eye.
4. To try the Casting of a Picture on a wall, in a light room, and to bespeak a Concave glasse fit for it.
5. To give order for the making of the Engin, to determine the force of Gunpowder in by weight.
6. To make a Hygroscope, with the Beard of a Wild-Oat.
Ordered, that the Astronomical Quadrant contrived by Dr Wren, be produced at the time of his Majesty's reception.
Ordered that a Book be provided by the Amanuensis for this Majesty's Subscription.
Voted the first time, that in the Statute of the Obligation to be subscribed, these words 'Or to be elected', be, in both the places where they occur in the Statute, repealed. |