| Description | 'The Earle of Tweedale proposed by Sir Robert Moray Elected and admitted.
Mr Roger Williams Elected.
Mr Povey presented the Society with an East Indian Fan of Tamarinds, retaining still its Aromaticall smell, after having veen kept by him for 6 months, besides the long time of its transportation.
Mr Hooks Account, both of the weight of the air in a large Receiver of 119 English wine pints, and of the proportion of the weight of the Air to the weight of the water, was read, and the later was ordered to be repeated .
Ordered, that whosoever doth make report of an Experiment but once made, do repeat the same for more accuratenesse and certainty.
Mr Ball was desired to inquire of Mr Street, whether he had observed the Suns's Eclipse of January the 18th of this instant year.
Mr Boyle presented the Society with a little Bird preserved for severall months in Oyle of Turpentine : by which liquor he mentioned, bodies may be so kept, as that it may also appear, what it is, that comes away from them, there being found a Liquor at the bottom, quite distinct from the Oyle, which subsiding Liquor, being examined, will shew the quality of the matter separated.
Mr Ball acquanted the Company, that Mr Darlington had found a mettall, yeilding a Glasse that transmits rayes without burning : He was desired to make further inquiry into it.
Mr Colwall related tht he had informed himselfe about the feeding of Horses, transported to Berbados, with the Shavings of Deal-boards ; and that he had understood from sel of those that use to transport horses thither, that they never did any such thing.
Monsiur Vessius communicated a relation of a Child taken in Lithuania, among Bears, in a Bear-hunting , and now at the Court of the Queen of Poland, where they endeavour to reduce it to some humanity, whence it seems to have altogether degenerated by the long converse with wilde beasts. The Relation being attested by a French Gentleman, as a Eyewitnesse, accompanying the two Sonnes of the Marshall de Grammond. Sir Robert Moray was desired to make further inquiry after it, by a letter to Dr Davison, living in those parts.
Mr Hook was ordered to make the Experiments of compressing water and glasse; as also that of the swimming glasse-buble, against next Meeting.
The same mentioned, that he had exposed Springs to the free Air, bu that notwithstanding a considerable aalteration in the Air, he had not found any alteration in the Springs.
Mr Boyle Suggested, that a Spring might be bent to a certain degree, and put into a Cylindical glasse, with ice and snow about it, to see what alteration woudl be wrought upon the Spring.
Mr Hook was ordered to try Springs with appendent weights, both in the rarifying adn Compressing-Engin, to see what Effects the rarefaction and condensation of the Air produceth in ?Springs.
The same related that he had taken a fair peice of ice and having Shaped it into a Lens, had found, tht though it did cast the figure of the sun upon his hand, yet yeilded no heat that was sensisble. He was desired to try with it when occasion serveth in Frosty weather, a Lenticular glasse, whether it will yeild any heat in such a Season.
Mr Boyle's discourse concerning weatherglasses was read in great part, wherein he considers
1. that not onely our senses, but common weatherglasses may misinforme us about cold; and that though sealed weathergalsses are so far preferrable to the common ones, as (they not being obnoxious to the various pressure of trhe external Aire) that there seems no need in most cases to decline their Reports, or postpone them to those of any other Instruments ; yet in some nice cases, it may be prudent to make use also of other wayes of Examing the Coldnesse of Bodies.
2. What may be the cause of the Condensation of Air, and ascent of water by cold in common waterglasses, examing the three Opinions concerning the same. As 1. of the Schools. 2. of Mr Hobbs, and 3. of some ingenuous and modern Naturalists.
He received the Thanks of the Company, and the Communication of this discourse being desired it was answered by him that he intended shortly to publish it in print. ' |