| Description | Present at the Council: The President; Lord Bishop of Sarum; Sir John Lowther; Sir James Shaen; Sir John Banks; Sir William Petty; Mr Thomas Henshaw; Mr Samuel Pepys; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Dr Daniel Whistler; Mr Daniel Colwall, Mr Henry Oldenburg
Dr Cox promised to entertain the Society on the 7th January; Mr Hooke on the 14th.
Sir John Lowther, Sir John Banks, Mr Pepys and Dr Goddard appointed as a committee to consider whether the £400 legacy may not be best laid out upon fee farm rents, and were to report to the Council on 7th January 1674/5.
The President, Sir Robert Southwell and Mr Pepys were asked to apply to Prince Rupert concerning the 'mischeif which his Glasshouse does to Chelsey Colledge, and to suggest to the Prince, that his Highnes may perhaps put it and the Land to some good uses, if he pleases to take it to himself, and to consider the Society for it'.
Sir Jonas Moor was asked to write to the Prince and inform him that the house and land of Chelsey [Chelsea] might have been well disposed of for the benefit of the Society if it had not been for the annoyance of the neighbouring glasshouse.
The form of the draft letter drawn up by the Secretary to write to members of the Society to provide discourses for the public meetings was reported by the Secretary to have been viewed and altered by the President, and ordered by him to be issued. Wording of the letter is listed.
Mr Hooke proposed that in order to bring in several sets of experiments, they would require instruments to perform them, and such instruments might be ordered in advance whilst he was preparing such experiments. The Council relsolved that the proposed sets of experiments should first be brought up before them, and that then they would consider and order such instruments as necessary for performing the experiments.
The Council asked the Curator to name a set of experiments to begin with; he named magnetic experiments. |