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John Wallis
Edmond Halley
Concerning a complaint about the break-down of communication between the Royal Society and Oxford Society Read to the Royal Society on 7 July 1686
02 July 1686 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/40
Stating that he had received an account of Halley's proposal to measure a degree of latitude on earth and that the Royal Society was giving 50 pounds for this venture Details of several notices: a child with six fingers and six toes; a women with dropsy; corrections to 'Philosophical Transactions'; Halley's theory on compound motion; concerning books on the Chinese language Read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1686
08 November 1686 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/41
Further details about the child with six fingers and toes (mentioned in EL/W2/41), who was called David Richardson, but has now died; concerns carrying out experiments on projected bodies; that Dr Plot has measured a cucumber of nearly four feet in length, which grew in Dr Jacob's garden; discussing remedies for gout, dropsy, rheumatism; account of the eruption of a spring in Yorkshire Read to the Royal Society on 6 December 1686
25 November 1686 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/42
Sends minutes of the Oxford Society (attached); discusses papers of Isaac Newton about measuring the movement of bodies; concerning 'Ludus Helmontii'; discussing monsoons and trade-wides Minutes of the Oxford Society dated from 30 November and 7 December 1686 with items about shells at the Ashmolean repository, crabfish from Barbados, kernel of an Indian nut, man who was cured of a fainting disease by chewing rhubarb, about a woman who was cured of epilepsy after she was married
14 December 1686 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/43
1693
Sends two letters of Newton with his daughter who was travelling to London; general discussion about printing Newton's work
26 November 1693 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/56
1695
Wishing for the publication of Newton's work on light, refraction and colour; concerning tables of counter-logarthims; concerning publication of his paper in 'Philosophical Transactions'
11 November 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/55
Concerning a bill for regulating the press which had been brought before the House of Commons; Wallis quotes a proviso to the bill Read to the Royal Society on 4 December 1695
03 December 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/57
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