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papers to those who could understand and appreciate them. 

 The Royal Society began from the first to publish useful 

 memoirs in their Philosophical Transactions ; and in 1669 

 we find them bringing out the works of an Italian anatomist, 

 Malpighi, of whom we shall speak presently, and who sent 

 to them works which he could not afford to publish in Italy. 

 By this means the information scattered about the world 

 was gathered together, and men were encouraged to seek 

 out new truths when there was a chance of their being 

 known and appreciated. 



Among the earlier members of the Royal Society there 

 were some whose discoveries we must now consider. These 

 were Boyle and Hooke, whom we have already mentioned ; 

 John Mayow, whose experiments in chemistry are especially 

 interesting j Ray, Grew, and Malpighi, naturalists and ana- 

 tomists ; the Dutch astronomer Huyghens ; the English 

 astronomer Halley, and last, but not least, England's great 

 philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton. 



Chief Works consumed. Ganoids 'Physics,' 1873; Balfour Stewart 

 on 'Heat,' 1871 ; Rossiter's 'Physics,' 1870; Baden Powell's Hist- 

 tory of Nat. Philosophy,' &c. ; Cuvier, ' Histoire des Sciences,' &c. ; 

 Birch's ' Hist, of Royal Society ; ' Thomson's ' Hist, of Royal Society,' 

 1812. 



