| Description | Present at the Council: Sir William Petty; Sir Robert Southwell; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Henry Oldenburg
Ordered that a form for legal subscription should be prepared, for paying 52 shillings a year.
Sir William Petty proposed that they must consider something to put new vigour into the meeting so of the Society, and to bring in the arrears. Council should consider the present condition of the Society, arising from the lack of good experimental entertainment at their meetings, and from the neglect of the Members in paying their weekly contributions. Council has thought it necessry to fix a number of Fellows, able and willing to entertain the Society every week with an 'experimental discourse'; and to defray the expense necessary for making experiments, to appoint a solicitor to call in their arrears, and to inform those in arrears with the obligation they have subscribed to upon their admission. Also to inform them of the Society's intention of proceeding to a legal recovery process of their arrears if they refuse or delay the payment therof. |