| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair
The following had leave to be present;
Mr Moore by Mr Baker
Mr Hudson and Dr Berkely by Mr Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Mr Chandler and Mr Martin by Mr Ellis
Reverence Mr Hamersly and Mr Empson by Dr Moreton
Mr Clay by Dr Parsons
Mr Francomb by Mr P Collinson
Reverend Mr Price and Mr Wollaston by Dr Birch
Dr Gardener by Dr Adee
Mr John Dollond and Edward Nairne by Mr John Ellicott
Mr Panzano by Dr Chandler
' Roger Baldwin MA and Mr Le Sue, two Gentlemen formerly proposed according to the statute, were put to the Ballot, and elected Fellows of this Society.
A certificate recommending Richard Wilbraham Bootle, of Ormond Street, Esq. for election into this Society dated London 11 December 1760, and signed William Sotheby, William Watson, Samuel Mead, Thomas Birch, James Burrow, Peter Davall, Willoughby and Charles Morton, was read, and ordered to be ut up in the publick meeting room. '
Gifts;
1. Mr Banzano, Fellow of the Royal Academy of History of Madrid, and of the Academies of Seville and Barcelona, and also Preceptor in the Family of his Excellency the present Embassador from Spain, presented to the Society a book 'De Hispanorum Literatura, which he had composed and printed at Turin in 1758.
2. Roger Baldwin MA and Mr Le Sue, two Gentlemen formerly prop9osed according to the statute, were put to the Ballot and elelcted Fellows of this Society
3. A certificate recommending Richard Wilbraham Bootle, of Ormond Street Esq for election into this Society, dated 11 December 1760 at London and signed William sotheby, William Watson, Samuel Mead, Thomas Birch, James Burrow, Petere Davall, willoughby, and Charles Morton, was read, and ordered to be put up in the publick meeting Room
Read letter to Dr Parsons FRS from William Bromfield Esq Surgeon, dated at Conduit Street on 11 December 1760, with his translation of a Dissertation concerning the Rickets, communicated from Mr Le Sue of Paris, Surgeon. [Translation listed in minutes]
President presented at the same time from Mr Bromfield a coloured Print, engraved by the said Mr Le Sue, of his dissection of the Body of a Child, in which, by a very extraordinary 'lusus naturae, the viscera of the Thorax and Abdomen were inverted from the right side to the left, a vice versa.
Read letter to Dr Parsons FRS from Mr Staneby Alehorne, dated at the Tower 2 December 1760 concerning cures fo some very terrible disorders recited in Dr Stork's Libellus Delicuta. [Summary listed in minutes]
'The Society, upon account of the ensuing Festival, adjourned their ordinary meetings to Thursday 8th of January 1761 |