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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Showing 17 letters from 1723–1724

0 letters from James Jurin; 17 letters from Cotton Mather

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Congratulates Jurin for recent appointment as secretary; Mather introduces himself to Jurin and discusses his election to the Fellowship List of topics which Cotton Mather had written about is attached

Reference number: EL/M2/36

Account of animals like serpents which are called dragons

Reference number: EL/M2/37

Account of a new rattlesnake; concerning a plant called 'poor Robin's Plantain'

Reference number: EL/M2/38

Details about the ancient city of Joppe and Jonah; whether Jonah's whale was a shark like the one found off Cape Cod

Reference number: EL/M2/39

Concerning unusual rainfalls eg with frogs, with barley, with blood, locusts

Reference number: EL/M2/40

Mentions mechanical inventions; concerning improvements to an engine for 'sailing upon the Land' by Joseph Morgan and transcribes his letter about this

Reference number: EL/M2/41

Concerning the 'subterraneous world'; concerns digging a well at Springfield and the discovery of 'butter nutts'

Reference number: EL/M2/42

That Jurin should expect a delivery of letters from 'your American servants' soon; transcribes a letter from a patient who describes his illness in his leg and jaw and then eventually sailed to New England Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1723

Reference number: EL/M2/43

Mather sends a parcel of communications about the success of inoculation with smallpox through Isaac Greenwood; recommends that Jurin examines Greenwood who was one of the people inoculated

Reference number: EL/M2/44

Concerning delivery of parcels; introduces John Parkens and states that he has been told to visit Jurin

Reference number: EL/M2/45
1724

Concerning how climates affect the humours, manners and actions of people; gives examples of national characteristics which have been retained; opinions about the Native Americans

Reference number: EL/M2/46

Details of people who have vomited unusual items eg a serpent, caterpiller, pins

Reference number: EL/M2/48

Details of a rock which rested upon another rock and moved with the motion of the sea at Gloucester in New England

Reference number: EL/M2/50

Concerning the importance attributed to the effects of thunder by historians; transcribed a letter about a thunderstorm on 24 June 1724 at Newtown; account about the effects of the lightning on a tree stump in Cambridge, MA

Reference number: EL/M2/52

Discussing the impact of steel medicines, needles and pins on the body with case studies

Reference number: EL/M2/54

Concerning his work entitled 'The Angel of Bethesda' about common maladies of humans which has gone to press

Reference number: EL/M2/56

Details about Zabdiel Boylson and his work inoculating with smallpox in America

Reference number: EL/M2/57