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1 - 'Memoirs for the Natural History of Tin': introduction, followed by pages with headings, with occasional passages of text inserted
2 - Section of text of 'Medicina Chromatica'
3 - MS version of parts of 'Human Blood'
4 - Copied extracts, including copy of cure for ague signed by William Smith, curate of Deptford, and given to Boyle by Evelyn
5 - Unpublished Latin translation of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'
6 - MS version of part of ' Usefulness, II, sect. 1'
7 - MS version of part of 'Effluviums'
8 - Latin text and mathematical equations: propositions '33' and '34'; endorsed 'Ex Euclid Elementorum lib. (?), pag. 478, 479'
9 - Fragments of a set of notes on cold, many with information provided by Samuel Collins
10 - Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'
11 - Miscellaneous reports, observations, recipes and memoranda, at least some of them extracts from (lost) workdiaries
12 - Experiments concerning atmospheric pressure.
13 - Material relating to 'Usefulness'
14 - Latin extracts from an 'Oration'.
15 - MS version of part of 'Effluviums'.
16 - 'Memorialls Philosophical Beginning this Newyears day 1649/50 & to End with the Year. And so, by God's Permission, to be annually continu'd during my Life': [Workdiary 6]
17 - MS version of experiment 45 of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'.
18 - Latin accounts of experiments and recipes, including lengthy account of producing purified salts and spirits.
19 - Fragment of MS version of text of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 1'
20 - 'Ratio extrahendi ex omnibus Metallis, Mercurium Paracelsum'
21 - Two scraps of paper giving key to chemicals numbered 20-41 and 76-108
22 - Material relating to 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
23 - Recipes for chymical processes [Workdiary 31].
24 - Various sections of text, interspersed by recipes, some on pasted in slips.
25 - Fragment of Latin translation of 'Heat and Cold' ('Mechanical Qualities')
26 - Material relating to 'Usefulness, II, sect. 1'
27 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'
28 - MS version of part of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
29 - Material relating to 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
30 - Recipes for jewellers' cement.
31 - 'A Summary Account Of my whole Designe concerning Vegetables', including lists of matters to be considered (incomplete).
32 - List of headings 'Of Fermentation'.
33 - List of things to remember and 'Particulars belonging to the Scepticall Chymist'.
34 - French paper concerning navigational skills of Sr. Guillet.
35 - Notes on production of 'Glasse of Antim[ony]', etc., and 'Author's Tincture'.
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