| Description | Lists present at Council; Lord Brouncker, Sir Paule Neile, Mr Aerskine, Mr Slingsby, Mr Balle, Mr Evelyn, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Clark, Mr Palmer, Mr Hill, Mr Oldenburg.
Colonel Long, Dr Christopher Wren and Mr Hook met with them, as ordered at the previous meeting.
The King's entertainment being taken into consideration (for which the meeting of the Council on this day was appointed) it was ordered;
That Mr Hook and the Operator take care to prepare the compressing engine, that it does not fail in the trying of experiments therein.
That the Operator take care to have the long tubes set up, against Monday next.
Colonel Long promised to bring in his apparatus of insects, some snake's eggs, his collection of curious stones, among which are some with natural screws: some ermines and lizards natives of England: as also, some exotic beast's skins.
Dr Christopher Wren promised to think of some experiments for this purpose, and to send them from Oxford to the President. He mentioned the turning glass thermometer with an index, left with Dr Goddard.
Dr Wilkins undertook the experiment of raising a great weight with a man's breath; that of the Metallick Tree, both with Mercury and after, Dr Power's way, red and green; to engage Dr Power to make that Magnetical Experiment here, which he had made in the country, according to his written account sent to Dr Croon for the Society; Vizt of altering the Polarity, of a heated and cooled iron, be repercusing the two ends, and of destroying all the Magnetisme thereof, by striking such an iron in the middle.
Dr Goddard promised to show 1. the way of raising a considerable weighr, by the shrinking of the moistened gut-strings; 2. the way of raising a great weight with a little water; 3. the way of sucking up a good quantity of water, by drawing the air of the vessel into the chest.
Dr Clark promised to show that a frog will live an hour 20 minutes, after his heart has been taken out, and ceased to move.
Dr Ent to be asked by Dr Wilkins or Dr Goddard to prepare the disection of an oyster and lobster.
Mr Hook was charged to show his Microscopial Observations in a handsome book, to be provided by him for that purpose. Also to weigh the air both in the engine and abroad; to break empty glass balls; and also to let the water ascend into them, after they have been emptied; to provide the instrument for finding the differeing pressure of the atmosphere in the same place: as also the hygroscope made of the beard of a wild oat.
Mr Slingsby to give directions for the engraving of the Society's Arms upon their Mace.
Voted for the second time that the Statute for Subscribing the Obligation as it stands recorded June 17th with these words 'or to be admitted', be repealed.
The same Statute (except those words 'or to be admitted') passed the second time, inserting these words, 'Elected' and 'shall subscribe'; secondly, between the words 'Elected' and 'shall refuse' as recorded on 17 June and 1 July. |