| Description | Present at the meeting: The President; Sir John Lowther; Mr Hill; Mr Colwall; Mr Pepys; Mr Henshaw; Mr Evelyn; Dr Croone; Mr Aston; Mr Hooke; Dr Grew; Mr Flamstead [Flamsteed]
The President reported on his proceedings with Mr Bayly, Sir Stephen Fox and the Atorney General regarding Chelsey College.
Ordered that Mr Hunt request from Biggerstaffe two pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence rent due at Michaelmas 1680
Voted that no person whosoever that is a foreigner shall be admitted a Fellow of the Society without a Diploma, sent to him from the Society.
The President asked for further consideration of what expedients could be agreed on for stoppoing the proceeding in too easy a choice of men, proposed to be elected. Proposed that ' the best expedient were not that after the person were proposed in the Society the Council at their next meeting should consider whether he be a person fully qualified for promoting the ends of the Institution.
And whereas notice has been taken in the Councill that severall persons have been of late admitted Members of the Society without subscribing the bond for paying their admission money, to prevent which for the future It is proposed that after any person has passed the Ballot and been declared Chosen by the President the person who propounded him shall take Care to bring him to the Treasurer to pay his admission money and signe his bond and receive an acquittance for the same from the Treasurer, which acquittance being shown to the Secretary the person shall be admitted to write his name in the Statute Booke and by the Secretary be presented to the President for his admission.
And these two last orders are againe to be debated at the next Councell In order to be passed into a Statute.
Ordered that a booke of Blank bonds be forthwith provided for the treasurer for such persons soe to be admitted.
Ordered that the Secretary may make tryall of some persone for writing between this and the next Councell and give an account to the next meeting. '
Dr Grew's order brought in by himself was signed.
Adjourned to meet at the President's on the next Tuesday night.
Adjourned minutes of the Council;
Dr Grew having read several lectures before the Society, of the Anatomy of Plants, some of which have already been printed at various times, and nome not printed, together with some others of their Colours, Taste; and salts, also of the solution of salts; of the Waters of this City of London; and of Mixture, all of them to the good liking and appreciation of the Society. It is therefore ordered the he be asked to have them printed together in one volume, and because fo the great number of figures belonging to them, to take upon himself a more particular care of the impression. |