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John Beale
Robert Boyle
Presents a mnemonical problem
04 October 1661 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/97
1662
Concerning the King's skill in physiognomy; concerning uses of seaweed; that Oldenburg has been persuaded to send Beale's proposal for supply of aqua vitas
23 February 1662 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/98
1663
Concerning Caleb Morley's alphabets, titles and notations, which he says he is able to interpret; concerning artificial memory
25 February 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/99
Concerning Wimberton who left his body for medical research stating that 'the anatomy of the living is more instructive than of the dead'; discussion about why medicines are fickle; concerning Mr Waller and 'winds of the spleene'
28 September 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/101
Discussion about mnemonical matters, particularly about his memory, and then considers the memory of dogs and other animals
29 September 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/102
Discussion about a person's memory; concerns publication of his work
02 October 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/103
Covering letter enclosing his notes on various examples of medical treatments eg: gout cured by opening vein in foot; 'oyle of wheate'; balm leaf cordial; bite of poison; discussing colds, measels, corns
02 November 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/104
Account of the plight of farmers during bad times; how the Society could publicise problems
09 November 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/105
How to raise and care for sheep with extracts from Columella (in Latin), and comparing practices of old writers of Italy with customs in Britain; how to care for goats and cows; examples of a variety of medical treatments; details of alewives; concerning a Greek woman who claimed to heal people
09 November 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/106
Concerns how to improve woollen manufacture; details about clothiers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and about trade in sheep; how should art, science, trade or manufacture be restored or improved
21 November 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/107
Account about turkeys, geese, ducks, peacocks, pigeons, hens, doves
01 December 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/108
Highlighting aspects of rural life and encourages the Royal Society to 'allow an Anniversary Seasone for Rurall Accommodations'
14 December 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/109
Concerning barometrical observations; concerning springs and a well in Dorset which should be investigated by brewers and housewives; concerning weights and measures
11 January 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/110
Entitled 'Of springs, fountains, lakes, waters etc' around the Mendip Hills
18 January 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/111
Sends a medical recipe made with coloquintida to kill tapeworms with instructions for use; discussion about worms; concerning a shining sand; about a dog that fell into a disused mine and was rescued alive three weeks later
21 January 1663 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/112
1664
Discussing Boyle's 'History of Colour' which Beale received through Henry Oldenburg
25 April 1664 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/40
Concerning flowers changing colours; using a microscope to see changes in colours of flowers; concerning the results from Oldenburg's hydrostatic, which Beale borrowed
25 April 1664 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/113
1665
Concerns holding breath under water; concerning work that was carrried out on ice, snow and freezing
27 May 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/114
Account of healing a man's hand by Greatrix and an account from Lionel Beacher
07 September 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/115
Concerning the work of Palladius, particularly 'de Institione', and essays by Mr Fynch; concerning suitable air for fruit and liquor of cherries; concerning religion, tradition and revelation
11 October 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/116
Details about nurseries of fruit trees for cider; discussing editions of texts
09 November 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/117Concerning papers on thermometers and baroscopes and about sale of weather-glasses; discussion about his thermometer; concerning mackerel (see EL/OB/119 for further details about mackerels)
06 February 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/118
About mackerels and how they shine in the dark after boiling
06 February 1665 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/119
1666
Concerning 'transanimation' or 'the life or soule is in the blood'; blood transfusion of a young person into an old person; case of an 80-year-old man who married a young woman, had children by her, and then felt healthier than before marriage; observations of baroscopes and scales and thermometers; concerning weight of air for a healthy person
31 March 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/120
Discussing Boyle's written work; wishing for a paper on heat and flame
18 April 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/121
Concerning Oldenburg's paper on light and flame; concerning the skills of dairymaids in making cheese; concerning the motion of liquids; concerning yeast and bread-making; concerning 'fairy rings' in pastures; that he has received a Latin manuscript about plants and their affiinities; concerning glaciation
28 August 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/122
Discussing 'how heate may be graduated by weights' and how cold can be measured by thermometers; concerning fermentation
07 May 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/123
Suggesting the best ways to publish Boyle's writings (continued in EL/OB/125); wishes the manuscript 'De cognoscendis sine duce Herbis' to be translated
13 July 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/124
Concerning Boyle's writings continuatiing from letter EL/OB/124; concerning a statical baroscope
30 July 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/125
Concerning Eramus's work; concerns the publication of Boyle's work
10 August 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/126
Discussing possible correspondents, particularly wishing to learn from American plantation owners about their husbandry practices; discussing baroscopes
31 October 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/128
Note at top reads: 'This was intended for Mr Boyle if it had beene legible' Considers what items will retain heat for the longest
07 January 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/129
Concerns warming a home with a tepid spring in frosty weather; concerning the differences in barometric observations; about certain animals being lighter in weight than their bulk; concerning a college in Seville which teaches the art of navigation
24 January 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/130
Enthusiasm about the transfusion experiments and what it could mean for future research; discussing magnets, and about telescopes not being tested for causes of obscurity; sending letters
01 January 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/131
Discussing baroscopes and thermometers; concerning fermemtation; concerning gold and diamonds; concerning falling bodies
28 January 1666 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/132
1670
Concerning a woman who could sense if the plague was within 30 miles from her through pain in her sores; suggesting that by interpreting dreams the mysteries of prophecies might be unlocked; general discussion about astrology
12 October 1670 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/B1/55
Concerning a woman whose sores hurt when the plague had struck people who lived thirty miles away from her; other details about the plague; discussing dreams; concerns predicting comets
12 October 1670 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/133
1671
Concerns promoting English reputation to satisfy expectations of foreigners; concerning a catalogue of inventions
02 September 1671 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/134
Concerning terrestrial rotation; details about mines from William Strode; observations of broken flints and discussing fossils
13 November 1671 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/135
Proposing to set up two committees for the 'advancement of learning'; that an Oxonian had prepared a list of scholars who wished to correspond with the Royal Society; concerning Lister's paper about petrified shells and then discusses marcasite mineral and other stones; concerning creation and generation
27 November 1671 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/136
1672
Concerning a nursery-man, Henry Starre of Stalbridge; recommending books on the manner of ordering fruit trees and about French gardeners; concerning the money spent on French and Spanish wines; concerning apples and pears for cider and perry and that laying down cider for sixteen or more years was worth it
26 October 1672 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/137
1673
Discussing a published work about cold, hydroscopes and 'aurum fulminans' to take fire
31 December 1673 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/138
1676
Concerning publication of his pamphlet on nurseries; concerning Anthony Lawrence's propagation of orchards in south-west England; naming where there are substantial nurseries in England and Ireland; states that he sends a fourth letter on horticulture to Henry Oldenburg with outline of contents (cultivating young orchards)
29 November 1676 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/139
1680
Concerning Boyle's 'aerial noctiluca'; discussing the recent wars on the continent; concerning Boyle's work in general; improvement to the microscope design by Hooke and by Leeuwenhoek; concerns publishing bills of mortality from New England
16 February 1680 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/141
Concerning an epigram from Henry Lavor (in text in Latin) suggesting that it could be used at the beginning of the volumes (this work not identified); further details about New England; information about the depth of the soil at Barbados
02 March 1680 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/142
1682
Wishes Dr Spratt to continue writing the History of the Society; concerning Wilkin's real character; concerning Parker's demonstration of the laws of nature; wishes someone could write on a regular basis about philosophical developments in Scotland
26 June 1682 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/143
Discussing books by Dr Tillotson; concerning Parker's demonstration of the divine authoirty of the law of nature; concerning entries for the 'memorials'
01 July 1682 Sender: John Beale , John Beale Reference number: EL/OB/144