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368 saying that he finds himself much better since and as a new man ; but he is cracked a little in his head, tho' he speaks very reasonably and well. He had but 20s. for his suffering it, and is to have the same again tried upon him : the first sound man that ever had it tried on him in England, and but one that we hear of in France." — Vol. hi., p. 420.

The 'Philosophical Transactions' furnish the details of the experiment, staling that it "was perform'd November 23rd, 1667, upon one Mr. Arthur Coga, at Arundel-House, in the presence of many considerable and intelligent persons, by the management of those two Learned Physitians and dextrous Anatomists, Dr. Richard Lower and Dr. Edmund King."

Pepys could not allow the occasion to slip without recording another sample of his treatment of all things, grave or gay:—

Coming events were casting their shadows before, for we now read, November 30lh, 1667:—

Shortly after this, however, he was elected into the Council, on which he often served, and in 1084 was chosen President, and filled the office for two years.*

Pepvs' increasing importance was not without its disadvantages. We have read ahead) how forty shillings sufficed to secure his admission to the Society, in whose welfare and advancement he thencefrom took so considerable an interest. It is not without

A curious usage is referred to on this bend (November 20th, 1068) : — " Mr. Povy, Creed and I, to Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being St. Andrew's-day ; and I had his cross set on my hat, as the rest had, and cest me 2s." The annual meeting of the Royal Society is still held on that day, as indeed is prescribed by the first Charter. Weld, in his ' History of the Royal Society,' says St. Andrew was "the patron saint of the Society, in whose honour the Fellows of the Society were accustomed, at the early anniversary meetings, to wear a St. Andrew's cross in their hats."