evening meetings. The active College 

 Preceptor and Bursar was now introduced 

 into the centre of the scientific life of 

 the time, where he was warmly wel- 

 comed. Immediately after the reading 

 of the first portion of his paper some of 

 the Fellows of the Society drew up and 

 signed a certificate in favour of his elec- 

 tion into the Society. Within a fort- 

 night, and before the reading of his paper 

 was ended, the certificate was in the 

 hands of the Council. It ran as follows : 



The Rev. Mr John Michell M.A. Fellow 

 of Queens' College, Cambridge, who has re- 

 commended himself to the Publick by his 

 Experiments in Magnetism, and has lately 

 communicated to this Society a Dissertation 

 upon Earthquakes, being very desirous of the 

 honour of becoming a member of the Royal 

 Society, We, whose names are underwritten, 

 recommend him as a gentleman extremely 

 well qualify 'd for that honour. 



LONDON, March 6, 1760 



The first names on the list of signa- 

 tures are those of the Secretary of the 

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