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1 - Note on a Report of the Joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology, 'on the propriety of recommending the establishment of fixed magnetic observatories'
2 - Draft of a report of the Joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology, 'on the propriety of recommending the establishment of fixed magnetic observatories'
3 - Letter from Trevelyan, Treasury, to J W Lubbock, Treasurer, Royal Society
4 - Letter from J W Horton (for Lord Bathurst), Downing Street, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
5 - Letter from Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society, to Lord Bathurst
6 - Minute of a meeting of the Balloon Committee
7 - J Martin & R Sepping, Navy Office, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
8 - Letter from H Legge & Middleton, Navy Office, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
9 - 'On the Copper Sheathing of Ships'
10 - Letter from JB Martin, Navy Office
11 - Draft letter from the Royal Society to managers of gasworks
12 - Letter from Robert Peel, Whitehall, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
13 - Letter from C Clarke (for Imperial Gas Light & Coke Co) to Stephen Lee, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
14 - Minute of a meeting of the Metropolitan Gas Works Committee
15 - Report of the Metropolitan Gas Works Committee
16 - Letter from Hobhouse, Whitehall, to Stephen Lee, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
17 - Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
18 - Minute of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
19 - Minute of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
20 - Minute of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
21 - Minute of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
22 - Optical Glass Committee, Technical data
23 - Optical Glass Committee, Technical data
24 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
25 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
26 - Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
27 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
28 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
29 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
30 - Letter from James Hudson, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
31 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
32 - Letter from JT Cooper, 58 Aldersgate Street, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society,
33 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
34 - Minutes of meetings of a sub-committee of the Optical Glass Committee
35 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
36 - Description of some experiments by J F W Herschel
37 - Letter from E Daniell, Royal Institution, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
38 - Letter from E Daniell, Royal Institution, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
39 - Description of some experiments by J F W Herschel
40 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
41 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
42 - Copy of a letter from J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society, to E[dmund R] Daniell, Royal Institution
43 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
44 - Minutes of a meeting of a subcommittee of the Optical Glass Committee
45 - Minutes of a meeting of the Optical Glass Committee
46 - Letter from E Daniell, Royal Institution, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
47 - Minutes of a meeting of a subcommittee of the Optical Glass Committee
48 - Minutes of a meeting of a subcommittee of the Optical Glass Committee
49A - Letter from JT Cooper, Lambeth, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
49B - Letter from J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society, to JT Cooper
50 - Memoranda on aspects of glassmaking
51 - Memoranda on aspects of glassmaking
52 - Second report of a subcommittee of the Optical Glass Committee
53 - Minutes of meetings of the Optical Glass Committee
54 - Third report of a subcommittee of the Optical Glass Committee
55 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
56 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
57 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
58 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
59 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
60 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
61 - Technical data provided for the Optical Glass Committee
62 - Letter from Henry Kater, 12 York Gate, Regents Park, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
63 - Letter from Bontemps, Londres, to Henry Kater
64 - Letter from P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, to Bontemps
65 - Letter from Bontemps, Myddleton Square, to Henry Kater
66 - Letter from Bontemps, Myddleton Square, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society,
67 - Letter from P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, to Bontemps
68 - Letter from Bontemps, Londres, to Henry Kater
69 - Letter from Bontemps, Londres, to Henry Kater
70 - Draft of a letter from the Royal Society to Bontemps
71 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to Sir Humphry Davy
72 - Draft of a letter from the Royal Society to Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall
73 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
74 - Letter from Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society, to Sir Humphry Davy
75 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
76 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
77 - Letter from Lewis Gilson, Lower Thames Street, to Sir Humphry Davy
78 - Letter from John Rennie, Stamford Street, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
79 - Letter from WH Wollaston, Buckingham Street, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
80 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
81 - Draft letter from the Royal Society, Somerset Place
82 - Letter from John Rennie, Stamford Street, to Stephen Lee, Asssistant Secretary, Royal Society
83 - Resolution of thanks to the Royal Society passed by the Committee of the Common Council of the City of London in charge of the arrangements for building the new London Bridge
84 - Letter from Henry Woodthorpe, Guildhall, to W T Brande, Secretary, Royal Society,
85 - 'New London Bridge. Specimens of Granite'
86 - Letter from J Jackson, Mountsorrel, to the Royal Society
87 - Letter from J Bigg (for Granite Co Haytor), Broad Street Buildings, to the Royal Society
88 - Letter from J F W Herschel to Edward Sabine
89 - Copy of a letter from Thomas Cartwright, Stockholm, to Lord Palmerston
90 - Copy of a 'Note Verbale' communicated to Sir Thomas Cartwright by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
91 - Letter from Leveson (for Lord Palmerston), Foreign Office, to Lord Northampton, President, Royal Society
92 - Copy of a letter from Rev Thomas John Hussey, Rectory, Chislehurst, to John Barrow
93 - Letter from John Barrow (for Admiralty), Admiralty Office, to the Duke of Sussex, President, Royal Society
94 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
95 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
96 - Minutes of meetings of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
97 - Report to the Council and the Meteorological Instruments Committee from Bevan
98 - Minutes of meetings of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
99 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
100 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
101 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
102 - Minutes of meetings of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
103 - Letter from P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, to JF Daniell
104 - Letter from James Chrichton, Glasgow, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society,
105 - Letter from Henry Kater, York Gate, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society,
106 - Letter from J W Lubbock, St James's Palace
107 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
108 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
109 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
110 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
111 - Part of the minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Instruments Committee
112 - Letter from J Bastock, Upper Bedford Place, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
113 - Letter from George Bentham, London Horticulture Society, to Secretary, Royal Society
114 - WR Thompson, 'Report on the discrepance of the Meteorological Observations at the Apartments of the Royal Society & the Garden of the Horticulture Society'
115 - Minutes of a meeting of the Meteorological Committee
116 - Minute of a meeting of the Committee for considering the letter of Baron Humboldt
117 - Letter from Lt Col William Reid, Royal Enginerrs, to J F W Herschel
118 - Lord Glenelg, 'Memorandum respecting the Records to be kept of the state of the Weather in the British Colonies'
119 - 'Report of the Committee appointed to consider Prof Mitscherlich's Crystallographical Discoveries'
120 - Letter from John Barrow, Admiralty Offices, to W T Brande, Secretary, Royal Society
121 - Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
122 - Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to John Barrow, Admiralty
123 - Letter from Lord Melville, Melville Castle
124 - Letter from WE Parry, Admiralty, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
125 - Summary of expenses of the Pendulum Committee
126 - Receipt for paymemts to William Cary, Mathematical Instrument Maker
127 - Bill from William Cary, Mathematical Instrument Maker, for £28.4.0
128 - Bill and Receipt, Henry Kater and Thomas Jones, Instrument Maker
129 - Bill and Receipt, Henry Kater and J Corless
130 - Bill and Receipt, Henry Kater and WH Richardson £4.15.0
131 - Bill and Receipt, Thomas Young and Handley & Moore
132 - Bill and Receipt, Henry Kater and J Corless
133 - Bill and Receipt, John Pond, Sir Joseph Banks and P & G Dollond, £115.0.0
134 - Bill, P & G Dollond to Royal Society for £115.0.0
135 - Bill and Receipt, Royal Society and Thomas Jones, Instrument Maker, £68.18.6
136 - Receipt for £100 and a letter of credit for £200, from Sir Joseph Banks to Henry Kater
137 - Bill and Receipt, Royal Society and Portin
138 - Bill and Receipt, Henry Kater and P & G Dollond, £118.0.0
139 - 'Captain Kater's account of expenses in experiments on the Pendulum at the Stations of the Trigonometrical Survey'
140 - 'Captain Kater's account of expenses in Experiments on the Pendulum'
141 - 'Captain Kater's account of expenses in Experiments on the Pendulum'
142 - Minute of a meeting of the Pendulum Committee
143 - Summation of a report of the Pendulum Committee
144 - Report of a subcomittee to the Pendulum Committee, on a site for a pendulum observatory
145 - Report by Foster's Scientific Voyage Committee
146 - Foster's Scientific Voyage Committee, list of stations where magnetical observations might be made
147 - Foster's Scientific Voyage Committee, rough draft of notes on other non-magnetical observations which Foster could undertake
148 - 'Should it be conversant to Captain Foster, the longitudes of the following points may be determined, in addition to those mentioned in the proposed track"
149 - Notes suggesting that attention should be given on Captain Henry Foster's Voyage to the Southern Hemisphere to natural history
150 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Portland Place, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
151 - Copy of a letter from William Thomas Brande, Secretary, Royal Society, to Edward Sabine
152 - Report by the Peruvian Bark Committee
153 - Notes for the Peruvian Bark Committee
154 - Minute of a meeting with the Telescope Committee
155 - John Pond, 'The Report of Mr Pond on Mr Faraday's Telescope'
156 - Minutes of meetings of the Barlow Telescope Committee
157 - Letter from John Pond, Royal Observatory
158 - Dollond, 'Report on Mr Barlow's Telescope'
159 - Henry Kater, 'Telescope with Mr Faraday's Glass'
160 - Report by the Barlow Telescope Committee
161 - Copy of part of a report by the Barlow Telescope Committee
162 - Letter from Edward Sabine, London, to J F W Herschel, Secretary, Royal Society
163 - JF Daniell, 'Memoranda of the construction of a Barometer for the Royal Society December 1822'
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