Minutes of meeting, 21 May 1767
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SAL/02/010/062
Title
Minutes of meeting, 21 May 1767
Date
21/5/1767
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Item
Scope and content
Henry Baker exhibits ancient gold ring set with an emerald found in digging foundations near the Royal Exchange, London [detailed account].
Lord Cardross’s gift of engravings of SE view of Icolmkill Cathedral etched by him from his drawing (1761) when a student at Glasgow Academy.
John Forster’s son aged 13, conversant in several languages, gift of a translation from the Russian into English entitled A Chronological Abridgement of the Russian History by Michael Lomonsoff.
Godolphin Edwards on an original letter of requisition from Richard, Duke of York, to the citizens of Shrewsbury concerning the loss of Gascony and Guyenne to the French [lengthy account].
James Parsons MD, his proposals for printing by subscription his Remains of Japhet: being an historical enquiry into the Affinity and Origins of the European languages.
John Forster on inscriptions copied from plaster casts taken from a stone with their interpretation which possibly relates to a perfumer or apothecary with reference to Melinum, a drug with many applications [detailed account] and also a balm or unguent [with drawings].
Lord Cardross’s gift of engravings of SE view of Icolmkill Cathedral etched by him from his drawing (1761) when a student at Glasgow Academy.
John Forster’s son aged 13, conversant in several languages, gift of a translation from the Russian into English entitled A Chronological Abridgement of the Russian History by Michael Lomonsoff.
Godolphin Edwards on an original letter of requisition from Richard, Duke of York, to the citizens of Shrewsbury concerning the loss of Gascony and Guyenne to the French [lengthy account].
James Parsons MD, his proposals for printing by subscription his Remains of Japhet: being an historical enquiry into the Affinity and Origins of the European languages.
John Forster on inscriptions copied from plaster casts taken from a stone with their interpretation which possibly relates to a perfumer or apothecary with reference to Melinum, a drug with many applications [detailed account] and also a balm or unguent [with drawings].
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