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Some Ohferwations about Sh\mngf\Q% m^de by the Bonou^ 
rable Robert Boyle 5 Febu i p i^z-. and by way of Letter 
addrefed to the Ttiblijher y and prefented U the R,So. 
ciety. 
YEfternight when I was about to go to bed, an Ama* 
nuenp of mine, aceuftom'd to make Obfervations, 
informed me, that one of the Servants of the houfc^going 
upon fome occafson into the Larder^was frighted by fome- 
thing of Luminous that Ihe faw fnotwithftanding the dark, 
nefs of the place,) where the meat had been hung up be- 
fore : Whereupon fufpending for a while my going to 
reft, I prefently fent for the meat into my Chamber, and 
caufedit tobeplaeedin a cprner of the room capable of 
being triaiie confiHerab^^^^ dbrk, ,ind then 1 plaii:ily ftw, 
both with bonder and ^elfglft^ lthSif the joint of meat did 
in divers places fliine like rotten Wood or ftinking Fifii ; 
which was fb uncommon a fight: , that I bad prefently 
thougbts of inviting ybd h> be a ffiarer to the pleafure of 
it. But the late hour p^^ nat only make me 
fear to give jcni I06 unlaafonable a trouble, but being 
joynedwith a great Cold I had got that day by making 
Tryal of a new Telefcope (you faw,^ in a windy place, I 
durft not lit up long enough to triake all the tryals that I 
thought of and judg'd the oceafion worthy of. But yet, be- 
e^ufe I eSeifiually refolved to imploy the little time I had 
tofpare, in making fuch Obfervations and tryals, as the 
accommodations, I could procure atfo inconvenient an 
hour^ would enable me, I fliall here give you a brief ac- 
count of the chief circumftances and Phanomena^thsit I had 
opportunity to take notice oR 
I. Then I muft tell you, that the fubjecStj we difcourfe 
of, was a Neck of Veal, which, as I learned by inquiry, 
had been bought of a Country.butcher on the Tuefday 
preceding; 
