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Royal Academy General Meeting Updates and International News
The Royal Academy of Sciences held its yearly general meeting noting readings on time measurement devices and leaf physiology with prizes deferred until after Easter 1734. Abroad, reports from Madrid and Barbary warn of Corsica Sardinia Mediterranean tensions and imperial troop movements. Letters from Madrid mention Morocco’s king and a late battle. in The Hague reform debates stall as Barbery finances and frontier defense are debated. a fatal coach dispute in Holborn is noted, and the East India Company plans a Bombay expedition.
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Royal Academy of Sciences
M. de Fouteselle
President de Maisons
WV. Louillabray
W.de Beaumur
du Fay
M. Buoache
Davention
T.cu
Guise
Duke de Duas
Madrid
Chey
Morocco
Muley
Che
Cardinal de Polignac
Rome
Bather
Europe
Corsica
Sardinia
Piris
Italy
Sardigia
Villa Francha
Prince of Wirtember
Hague
States of Holland
Slingeland
Republick
Barsier
Hanover
Sevile
Vienna
Riperda
England
Holbourn
Struk
Macclesheld
Menz
Hoa
rBast India Company
Matty
Thompsod
Mein
Bombay
Angua
Pyrate
de Savpes
Norwich