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VI. A Letter from Maurice Johnfon Efq\ 
Prelident of the Gentlemens Society at 
Spalding, to James Jurin M. D. Fellow of 
the Royal College of Phylicians, London, 
and F. R. S. coticerning a Metalline Ther- 
mometer, in the Mu feu m of that Society. 
S I R r Spalding , Jan. 16 . 1747 - 8 . 
d \ S I know it mud give you Pleafure, 
/ \ and, being by you (as I defire it may 
be at their next Meeting) communicated to the 
Royal Society , may be of fome Credit to the Me- 
mory of the Inventor the late Mr. Samuel Fr other - 
ingham , a Grazier at Holbeach in Elloe Holland y 
Lincolnjbire, and of fome Profit to the Maker, give 
me Leave to acquaint you, that he (Mr. John Ingram , 
of this Place, Watch-maker and White-Smith, whofe 
Father, originally a Black-Smith at Cowbitt , and 
Inventor of the Machine for cutting Watch- Wheels, 
was alfo a mod accurate Artificer) having made, 
and, at my Indance fome time fince, fixed up in our 
Mufrtum , a Metal Thermometer, which we, on Ex- 
perience and Obfcrvation, found to anfwer and go 
truly, I propofed to the Company, at our lad Meet 
ingin ^December , that our Society fhould purchafeit 
him, I fend you, Sir, his Defcription thereof, as 
enter'd from his Mouth in our Minutes, which I 
trud may be agreeable to you, and the worthy 
Members of that Illudrious Body, for which we 
here have the highed Honour: And though Mr. 
Beridge 
