'Experiments recommended to Dr Wilkins' 5 items listed: "The burning of lamps under water"; "The universal language"; "To inquire at Croydon, about the many little springs that run together, and make a stream for certain spare, and then slide under-ground, breaking out again afterwards"; "To write to Dr Lope about a book of Sign. Casare, concerning the chang of the Meridian Line" and "To have the Dog skin cut off at his house". c.1660s