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The importance of the various improvements suggested was
different in the eyes of different members The idea of
rendering the Society so select as to make it an object of
ambition to men of science to be elected into it, was by no means
new, as the following extract from the Minutes of the Council
will prove:--
"MINUTES OF COUNCIL August 27, 1674
Present,
Sir WPetty, Vice-President,
Sir John Lowther,
Sir John Cutler,
Sir Christopher Wren,
MrOldenburgh,
Sir Paul Neile
"It was considered by this Council, that to make the Society
prosper, good experiments must be in the first place provided to
make the weekly meetings considerable, and that the expenses for
making these experiments must be secured by legal subscriptions
for paying the contributors |
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