On a point connected with the dispute about the invention of fluxions

An assertion made by Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Conti, published in Raphson’s History of Fluxions, that the materials of theCommercium Epistolicum were “ collected and published by a numerous Committee of gentlemen ofdifferent nations , appointed by the Royal Society for that purpose,” appeared to be at variance with the list of the Committee as it was appointed on the 6th of March, 1711- 12, and which only contains the names of Arbuthnot, Hill, Halley, Jones, Machin and Burnet, who were all English. But on further search of the records of the Society with the aid of Mr. Weld, the Assistant Secretary, the author ascertained that other members were subsequently added to the Committee, among whom were Bonet, the Prussian minister, and De Moivre, both of whom were foreigners ; thus showing that the imputations which might have been cast on Newton’s veracity are groundless.