… who chastised the society for ‘so readily admitting all persons into their society, who will pay the duties of the house, though they know not the terms of philosophy.’ 6 What connected the somewhat disparate disciplinary backgrounds … and Boyle to an eclectic, undiscriminating concern with 'curiosities’, natural and artificial, perhaps in tune with the coffee-house culture.’ 18 However, while there were notable changes, there remained consistent, productive activity. … while the society’s Curators of Experiments, Desaguliers and Francis Hauksbee, also gave public lectures across London’s coffeehouses and inns in the early eighteenth century. As the eighteenth century progressed, there was deeper involvement …