Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1785
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SAL/02/020/024
Title
Minutes of meeting, 9 June 1785
Date
9/6/1785
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Item
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The following Fellows were elected: John Call, Lord Adam Gordon, John Henniker
The following Fellows were proposed for election: James Gordon, William Marsden
The following Fellow was admitted to the Society: Rev. John Pridden
Edward Bridgen exhibits a large Roll containing the Pentateuch, brought over from Leghorn [Livorno].
Dr. Lort communicates an extract from a Sermon, preached by the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles of Yale College before the Governor and Assembly of Connecticut in the year 1783, relating to some rocks in Narraganet Bay [? Narragansett Bay], Connecticut, inscribed with Punic characters, from whence he draws a prophetical inference.
Observations by John Topham on the Wardrobe Accounts of Queen Philippa, wife of King Edward III, with extracts from 1352.
The following Fellows were proposed for election: James Gordon, William Marsden
The following Fellow was admitted to the Society: Rev. John Pridden
Edward Bridgen exhibits a large Roll containing the Pentateuch, brought over from Leghorn [Livorno].
Dr. Lort communicates an extract from a Sermon, preached by the Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles of Yale College before the Governor and Assembly of Connecticut in the year 1783, relating to some rocks in Narraganet Bay [? Narragansett Bay], Connecticut, inscribed with Punic characters, from whence he draws a prophetical inference.
Observations by John Topham on the Wardrobe Accounts of Queen Philippa, wife of King Edward III, with extracts from 1352.
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