'Desiderata recommended to Dr Charleton' Eight items listed, including: "A bird embalmed after Mr Crew's way"; "An account of diving to forty fathoms by Mr Knips"; "The story of a monstrous child taken out of a woman by himself, March 30 1663"; "To try the velocity of sounds with small and great Guns, with and against the wind; Mr Hook to assist him in this" and "To procure from the Masters of the Posthouses their observations of the Plague and then to put queries to them concerning it". c.1663