ABSTRACT
In 1705, Thomas Salmon was permitted to attend two meetings of the Royal Society. The authors know nothing of what contact between Salmon and the Society had preceded this; no letters from him to the Society are noted in the Journal Books, nor any submission of papers. His paper in the Transactions contains a passage which reflects his impression of what took place on this occasion. Ad hoc committee is possible that the treatise 'The Division of a Monochord' was connected with this occasion. Its use of a different chromatic scale from Salmon's 'The theory of musick reduced', written a few weeks later, make this seem unlikely. The committee looked kindly upon Salmon. His experiment followed reports from Halley on variation of the compass, from the microscopist Leeuwenhoek, and from a Mr Thoersby at Leeds on Norman coins. On 31 October, with the president again in the chair, 'Some Letters and papers from Mr. Salmon Concerning Musick were Read'.
