Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1774
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SAL/02/013/039
Title
Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1774
Date
9/6/1774
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Item
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The following Fellow was elected: John Willett Adye
Books presented: Halloran’s Introduction to the study of the Antiquities of Ireland; Lettform’s Medical Memoirs of the London General Dispensary; Buchanan’s Hereum Scotiacarum Historia; Abiah’s Institutiones Lingua; Peringskiöld’s Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum; Kingdom of the Congo; Ottoman of Lazaro, Soranzo, or Account of Man in Hungary; De Excidio Britannia.
Prints of eminent persons by Dalton from drawings by Holbein.
Human bones found in a vault in the Church of Badwell Ash, Suffolk, filled with lead; also in Axminster church, Devonshire, and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire; as well as some bones in St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Roman inscription in Istria and N. Dalmatia.
From what fish was obtained the purple of the ancients.
Books presented: Halloran’s Introduction to the study of the Antiquities of Ireland; Lettform’s Medical Memoirs of the London General Dispensary; Buchanan’s Hereum Scotiacarum Historia; Abiah’s Institutiones Lingua; Peringskiöld’s Monumenta Sveo-Gothorum; Kingdom of the Congo; Ottoman of Lazaro, Soranzo, or Account of Man in Hungary; De Excidio Britannia.
Prints of eminent persons by Dalton from drawings by Holbein.
Human bones found in a vault in the Church of Badwell Ash, Suffolk, filled with lead; also in Axminster church, Devonshire, and Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire; as well as some bones in St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Roman inscription in Istria and N. Dalmatia.
From what fish was obtained the purple of the ancients.
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