| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair
The following had leave to be present;
Mr Dunn by Dr Birch
Dr Wilkinson and Dr Pallas by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Mr Richardson by Mr Collinson
Dr Stephens by Edwards
' Mr Dodgson, a Gentleman formerly proposed according to the statute, was elected a Fellow of the Society. '
Gifts [donors not listed];
1. 'Decamerone di Giovanni Boccaccio' in quarto printed at London 1762
2. 'Programma de Flora danica' of 8 pages in folio with a copper plate, printed at Copenhagen in 1762
Communications;
1. Read a paper entitled "Extract of a Letter from John Huxham MD RS to William Watson FRS dated Plymouth February 5th, 1762; and a second paper enclosed with it, concerning two remarkable cases treated by Mr Adams, a Surgeon at Leskeard in Cornwall, one concerning a would in the neck, and one concerning a man struck by lightning. [Account given in detail]
2. Read a letter addressed to the Reverend Dr Birch FRS dated 28 March 1761 from Ludguan and signed William Borlase, adding four short notes to a former paper of Mr Borlase, and gives some account of ' a subsequent agitation of the sea and of two violent thenderstorms which have happened in his neigbourhood'. [Account given in detail]
3. Read a letter addressed to Dr Parsons FRS dated 18 March 1761, signed Andrew Cantwell, Professor of Pharmacy and Chemistry, in the medical schools at Paris, giving his observations concerning the couching of cataracts. [Account given in detail]
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