… and 15% gentlemen (Sorrenson 36). Election to the fellowship was a prestigious appointment and, as secretary, Henry Oldenburg frequently sent out printed lists of the fellows, as well as copies of the Philosophical Transactions, with his … mathematical, and mechanical subjects with all sorts of foreigners.’ 21 As the Royal Society’s first secretary, Oldenburg initially engineered and oversaw correspondence across Britain, continental Europe, and the Americas, where he … finances. A few years after his death, John Flamsteed reported that ‘our Meetings at the Royall Society want Mr Oldenburg’s correspondencys and on that account are not so well furnished nor frequented as formerly’. 22 However, as …