Writing about thirty-five years later, one of this old Company-states: “Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state-affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto; as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and natural Experiments; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.” Some of these philosophers left for Oxford and formed a second group in close connexion with the first, but gradually the activities of both became centred in London, with Gresham College as their principal place of meeting. The secretaries of the company kept its journals, and in the first journal-book we find the entry: “Memorandum that November 28, 1660, These persons following, according to the usuall custom of most of them, mett together at Gresham College to heare Mr Wren's lecture, viz., The Lord Brounker, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paul Neile, Dr. Wilkins, Dr. Goddard, Dr. Petty, Mr. Ball, Mr. Rooke, Mr. Wren, Mr. Hill. And after the lecture was ended, they did, according to the usuall manner, withdraw for mutuall converse, Where amongst other matters that were discoursed of, something was offered about a designe of founding a Colledge for the promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning. And because they had these frequent occasions of meeting with one another, it was proposed that some course might be thought of, to improve this meeting to a more regular way of debating things, and according to the manner in other countryes, where there were voluntary associations of men in academies, for the advancement of various parts of learning, so that they might doe something answerable here for the promoting of experimentall philosophy. In order to which, it was agreed that this Company would continue their weekly meetings on Wednesday, at 3 of the clock in the terme time, at Mr. Rooke's chamber at Gresham Colledge, in the vacation, at Mr. Ball's chamber in the Temple. And towards the defraying of occasionall expenses, every one should, at his first admission, pay downe ten shillings, and besides engage to pay one shilling weekly, whether present or absent, whilest he shall please to keep his relation to this Company.” At this meeting also a chairman was elected (Dr. Wilkins), and a list of forty-one persons “judged likely and fit to join the designe” drawn up. The new Society grew apace,* The Society was now properly constituted, and among its rules we find: “The standing Officers of the Society to be three, that is to say, a President or Director, a Treasurer, and a Register. The President to be chosen monthly,” and “That at every meeting, three or four of the Society be desired that they would please to be reporters for that meeting, to sitt at table with the Register and take notes of all that shall be materially offered to the Society and debated in it, who together may form a report against the next meeting to be filed by the Register.” There be “likewise two servants belonging to this Society, an Amanuensis, and an Operator.” The salary of the Amanuensis, was “40 1. per annum,” that of the Operator “foure pounds by the yeare.” for, next week, “Sir Robert Moray brought in word from the court, that the King had been acquainted with the designe of this Meeting, and he did well