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mission, pay downe ten shillings, and besides engage to pay one 

 shilling weekly, whether present or absent, whilest he shall please to 

 keep his relation to this Company. At this Meeting Dr. Wilkins 

 was appointed to the chaire, Mr. Ball to be Treasurer, and Mr. Croone, 

 though ahsent, was named for Register. 



" And to the end that they might the better be enabled to make a 

 conjecture of how many the elected number of this Society should 

 consist, therefore it was desired that a list might be taken of the 

 names of such persons as were known to those present, whom they 

 judged willing and fit to joyne with them in their design e, who, if 

 they should desire it, might be admitted before any other."* 



Upon which this following Catalogue was offered : 



Lord Hatton. Mr. Povey. Dr. Coxe. 



Mr. Robert Boyle. Mr. Wilde. Dr. Merrett. 



Mr. Jones. Dr. Baines. Dr. Whistler. 



Mr. Coventry. Dr. Wren. Dr. Clarke. 



Mr. Brereton. Mr. Smith. Dr. Bathurst. 



Sir Kenelme Digby. Mr. Ashmole. Dr. Cowley.f 



Sir Ant. Morgan. Mr. Newburg. Dr. Willis. 



Mr. John Vaughan. Dr. Ward. Dr. Henshaw. 



Mr. Evelyn. Dr. Wallis. Dr. Pfinch. 



Mr. Rawlins. Dr. Glisson. Mr. Austen. 



Mr. Matthew Wren. Dr. Bates. Mr. Oldenburg. 



Mr. Slingsby. Dr. Ent. Mr. Pett. 



Mr. Henshaw. Dr. Scarburgh. Mr. Croone. 



Mr. Denham. Dr. Phrasier. 



On the following Wednesday, being the 5th December, a Meeting 

 was held, of which the following is recorded in the Journal-book : 



" Sir R/obert Moray brought iii word from the court, that the 

 King had been acquainted with the designe of this Meeting. And 

 he did well approve of it, and would be ready to give encouragement 

 to it." 



" It was ordered that Mr. Wren be desired to prepare against the 

 next meeting for the Pendulum Experiment. 



" That Mr. Croone be desired to looke out for some discreet 

 person skilled in short-hand writing, to be an amanuensis. 



" It was then agreed that the number be not increased, but by 

 consent of the Society who have already subscribed their names : 

 till such time as the orders for the constitution be settled. 



" That any three or more of this company (whose occasions will 

 permit them,) are desired to meete as a Committee, at 3 of the 



' Journal-book,' vol. 1, p. 1. 

 t He had been created M.D. at Oxford, Dec. 2, 1657. Wood, ' Fas. Oxon.' 



