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RefNoCMO/1/212
AltRefNoCMO/1/250
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of meeting
Date10 December 1674
DescriptionThe President; Lord Bishop of Sarum; Sir William Petty; Mr Henshaw; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Abraham Hill; Mr Henry Oldenburg

Ordered that the Society having asked Sir William Petty to print his Discourse made on the 26 November, it is to be printed by the Society's printer as follows;

'The Council having formerly charged themselves to provide each of them an Experimental Discourse for the Society at some one meeting within the year, Resolved that a Letter should be written by the Secretary and Signed by the President, to the Fellows of the Society hereafter named, to desire them to provide the like Discourses, and to name the day after the 14th of January next, when to bring it in.'

Fellows listed as ; Sir Christopher Wren, Mr Evelyn, Dr Holder, Dr Croon, Dr Walter Needham, Dr Brown, Dr Pope, Dr Smith, Dr Vossius, Mr Wilde, Mr Bernard, Dr King, Mr Collins'

The persons nominated by Council to whom application should be made for signing the new bond were; Earl of Anglesey; Earl of Strafford; Earl of Devonshire; Earl of Shaftesbury; Lord Bishop of Chester; Lord Brereton; Sir Charles Berkeley; Sir Kingsmil Lucey; Sir Gilbert Talbot; Mr Thomas Howard; Mr John Stafford Howard; Mr John Williams; Dr Tillotson; Mr Barrington; Mr Slingsby; Mr Neale; Dr Glissen; Dr Thomas Cox; Mr Thomas Cox; Mr Lock; Mr Packer; Mr Wylde
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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