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AltRefNoCMO/2/91
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society
Date29 April 1696
DescriptionPresent at the Council: Sir John Hoskins Vice President; Sir Robert Southwell; Mr Hill; Dr Pitt; Sir Godfrey Copley; Mr Bridges; Mr Pepys; Mr Henshaw; Dr Sloane; Mr Herbert; Dr Hook

' Ordered that Sir John Hoskyns, Dr Hook and Dr Slone to treat with Mr Smith and Walford, the Society;s printers about printing Signor Malpighi's posthumous works, and the book be printed in the same volume, character and paper with his former works, so as to be bound up with them.

Sir Robert Southwell was pleased to undertake to discourse with Sir John Banks and Mr Herbert with Mr Lilly, Sir John Banks's Attorney about a new conveyance of the Fee Farm rent payable to the Society out of the Priory of Lewis: the deeds being mislaid or in unknown hands. '

Balloted and approved for election; Pompeius Barro de Scarlotti, Envoy from the Elector of Bavaria; Sir Vicentio Viviani and Signor Fornassari of Bononia; Mr Orland Bridgman; Mr William Bird; Mr John Harris of Chichester; and Signor [Silvestro] Bonfigliolo who transmitted Malpighi's Posthumous works; and Mr Bidloo Professor of Anatomy

Ordered Mr Hunt to be paid half a year's salary due on 14 July 1695 being £20

' The Vice President signed an order for £50 to be paid to E Halley for one year's salary due 27 October 1695.

Ordered that Dr Hook be paid for the use of his Room for on[e] year ending Christmass 1694 £10. '

There is a duplicate entry for this same meeting, entered out of order on Page 93. The contents are the same.
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