| Description | ' Sir John Hoskyns Vice President in the chair
Mr Aston presented to the Society from Dr Wallace his book of the Orkney islands. He was ordered the thanks of the Society. Mr JHook promised an account of it.
Dr Sloane produced a great piece of Slate, wherein was the inscription of a Fern on the upper side, and the convex side a fern in the under.
The same shewed many designs and Journals he had taken in Jamaica, and many figures, of plants, birds, and insects there observed, graved.
Dr Slare read an account of Salt making, being in opposition to an account of the same by Dr Cockbourne, wherein he affirmed from Mr Seaforth that there was no addition or multiplication of Salt from Rock Salt added to brine. ' |