10 UFA-OKI) OF THE HOVAL SOCIETY 



A wivk after the preparation of the preliminary list of 



,1 members of the proposed new Society, another meeting 



u Id December 5), of which the following record is given in 



the Journal-hook : 



Holu-rt Moray brought in word from the Court, that the King had 

 d with tlu- <lesigne of this Meeting. And he did well approve 

 . and would In- iv.idy to give encouragement to it. 



ordered that Mr. \Vreii he desired to prepare against the next 

 ig tor tlu- Pendulum Experiment. - 



T mom he desired to looke out for some discreet person skilled 



in .short-hand writing, to he an amanuensis. 



'It wax then agreed that the numher he not increased, but by consent of 

 v who have already subscribed their names: till such time as the 

 I 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 clock on Fryday, to 

 con>nlt about such orders in reference to the constitution, as they shall think 

 fitt to offer to the whole company, and so to adjourne de die in diem? 



At the same meeting the following obligation was agreed to : 



Wee \\IIOM- names are underwritten, doe consent and agree that wee will 



meet together weekely (if not hindered by necessary occasions), to consult and 



incoming the promoting of experimentall learning. And that each 



of UN \\ill allowe one shilling weekely, towards the defraying of occasional! 



Provided that if any one or more of us shall thinke fitt at any time 



to withdraw r. lie or they shall, after notice thereof given to the Company at 



a meeting, he treed from this obligation for the future.' 



To this are attached the signatures of nearly all those persons 

 'prised in the Catalogue of names prepared at the meeting 

 on the -JSth of November, as also of seventy-three others, who 

 i 1 >sequently elected into the Society, as may be seen in 

 Journal-book. 



k- I'.oyle to join with liiui in attempting to put his design into 



KID. Hi- propo-al \\.-iv to juircliasc thirty or forty acres of land within twenty-five 



"idoii. ami if tin-re were already no suitable dwellings, to erect buildings thereon 



iikethiiM' of the ( arlhu-ian Convent in Paris, with public rooms, laboratory, and 



-nt- or cell- f,,r the habitation of the members of the Society. He coupled his 



prvpwttioa Ntt ; -tatenient of the order that should he followed in the daily 



i-iimary plan came to nothing, but next year he threw himself 



Mto the affair- of the Royal Society, in the Charter of which he was named 



icil. 



