| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair
The following had leve to be present;
Dr Wilmer and The Reverend Mr Egerton by Dr Stukeley
Reverend Mr Foster and Mr Moore by Mr Baker
Mr Bates by Mr Canton
Mr Empson by Me Da Costa
Mr Planta by Dr Morton
' Mr Robert Burrow, elected at the last meeting,having paid his admission fee, and the further sum of twenty guineas, in lieu of contributions; and having also signed his name in the charter book, was admitted a Fellow of the Society '
Communications;
1. 'Dr Wilmer, professor of Botany at the physic Gardens at Chelsea, attended on the part of the worshipful the Company of Apothecaries; and delivered in and demonstrated to the Society, the fifty plants, directed by the will of Sir Hans Sloane: which number completes the two thousand distinct plants due upon the said will to the Society. ' Thanks ordered to Professor Wilmer and the Apothecaries.
2. Read a letter addressed to the Society of 10 March 1762 from Andover and signed J Merrick, describing a phenomenon in the Heavens, observed on 10 March at 7 in the evening, being a 'complete circle parallel to the Horizon, having the Zenith for its center and the Moon in its periphery.' [Details given]
3. 'Mr Hudson of Panton street FRS presented a Paper, drawn up by himself, consisting of 14 pages in quarto, wherein he gives an account of, and remarks upon a work entitled "Jacobi Christiani Schaeffer Icones et descriptio Fungorum quorundam singularium et memorabilium" which paper was read and thanks returned to Mr Hudson for the same. ' |