f 5°;) 
7. Ti&*®rw,that have been propofed. 
8 . Difcourfes, they have written, or publifhed. 
Hiftones of Nature , and and Worlds, they have 
colle&ed. 
The Particulars upon which Beads are more numerous, and 
of greater moment and variety, than perhaps Detractors and 
Cavillers imagine or expert : they exceed indeed the number 
of 7 00 % of which the Experiments and Ohfervations both toge- 
ther amount to above 350; the Relations y to about 150; the 
Queries, DireBions , Recommendations } and Propojals , to above 
go j the Injlrtmentsy to about 60 *, the Hiftones of Nature 
and Art, to above 50 5 and the Theories and Di(Cour(es i to as 
many, 
Tothefehe adds an Account of the Library and Repofitory, 
they have obtain’d by the bounty of two of their Members ; 
and gives withall iomQ Examples of their Experiments s Hifto- 
ries both of Nature and Art -5 Queries anfwered ; Propofals re- 
commended,^. Which done, he concludeth. That if any 
{hall yet think, they have not ufefully employed their time, he 
{hall be apt to fufpe£t,that they underftaud not, what is meant 
by a diligent and profitable labouring about Nature ; and that 
fuch men feem not capable of being fatisfied, unlefs the Gen- 
tlemen of this Society immediately profefs to have found out 
the Squaring of the Circle , or the Philosophers Stone , or fome 
other fuch mighty Nothings j which only argues the extrava- 
gance of the Expectations of fuch men. Mean time, the 
Author efteems, that, fince the Society promifes no Miracles 
nor endeavours after them, and fince their Progrefs ought 
to be equal and firm, by Natural degrees, and thorow (mall 
things, as well as great, going on leifurely and warily , it is 
therefore fit, that they alone, and not others, who refufe 
to confider the nature of their wor^ and to partake of their 
burthen 3 fhould be Judges by what fteps and what pace they 
ought to proceed. 
The Third Part, is afierting both the Advantage and 
Innocence of this Defign, in refpedt of all Profijjions , and par- 
ticularly of Religion ; and how proper, abcve others, it is 
for the prefent Temper of the Age , wherein we live : And 
E ee this 
