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death. After I went to live at Grantham, I often heard speak of this tragedy. it happend in a house in westgate.

S^r. Isaac was very careful of giving any sort of incoragement to attempts of improvement in natural knowledg. there were no

⁺whispering, talking, nor

loud laughters, if dissensions arose in any sort, he said, they tended to find out truth, but ought not to arise to any personality.

^θthe transactions were publishd by the secretarys, with proper care, & judgment, & were accordingly esteem'd.

he was very sollicitous of keeping up a correspondence both at home, & abroad; & that letters should be answer'd, offers of exchange of literary news cultivated: and every thing done that tended to the order, the honor & advancement of the Society, & the harmony of the members.

he said, correspondence was the life of these Societys: never grudgd paying any necessary charge, or that might be expedient. he gave money largely, to assist deserving persons: & where it was wanted.

the Council was provided out of the older part of the Society, & such as had been most serviceable in entertaining them with written discourses, or experiments: or constant attendance. & this was done, with a reasonable rotation.

^xthat every member in time might become acquainted with the state, & revenue, & the management thereof: without keeping in members as of form, who cannot possibly attend: or recent ones, wholly strangers to their affairs.