Minutes of a meeting of the Society ' Sir John Hoskyns Vice President in the Chair. Mr Eilson was permitted to be present. Mr Wilson showed som of the Amianthos in the Natural Soil, some Stones of i t and yarn made by him of it, without Addition. He presented these Varieties of it, and the said Yarn made of it without Addition, to t he Society, who thanked him for it. The same Showed some Microscopes, contrived after the fashion of Harshocker, and in them the scale of a Sole Fish, some Sal /Armoniac and Nitre Chrystallized, some common Salt, some Cheese mites, an Ascarides, the scale of a Roch, etc. The Society thanked him for this Sight. ' 24 December 1701