Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Boyle, dated at London Concerns the need to register the time of new experiments; that the Florentine experiments are promised; praise of Mr Hand's dissection and observations; concerning publication of 'Journal de Scavans'; that Mr Spratt is ready to print the history of the Society with details about its contents; concerning icebergs, tides, the indigenous people in Greenland; concerning experiments of refraction with different liquids and solids; concerning an account by Robert Hooke about dissection of the viper; concerning the president's account of the Antipascalian book; concerning Parliament's preparations for the war 24 November 1664