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1 - Letter from Charles James Fox, St James's, to Sir Joseph Banks
2 - Letter from Comte D'Adhemar to Charles James Fox
3 - Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury, "Memoire sur la jonction de Douvres a Londres"
4 - Letter from General William Roy, Argyll Street
5 - General William Roy, "Rough estimate of the Expence that may probably be incurred in measuring a Base on Hounslow Heath, and carrying on from thence a series of triangles to Dover, there to be connected with the Triangles already formed in France..."
6 - General William Roy, "On the advantages that are likely to arise from the operations on Hounslow Heath"
7 - Letter from Lord Carmarthen, St James's, to Sir Joseph Banks
8 - Copy of a letter from Lord Carmarthen, St James's, to Sir Joseph Banks
9 - Extract from the Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society
10 - Letter from Thomas Hornsby, Oxford, to Sir Joseph Banks
11 - Thomas Hornsby, "Copy of a paper put into His Majesty's hands by the Duke of Marlborough written by Dr Hornsby"
12 - Letter from General William Roy, Argyll Street, to Sir Joseph Banks
13 - Letter from Woodhouse, Bridewell Hospital, to Sir Joseph Banks
14 - Copy of a letter from General William Roy, Argyll Street, to Nevil Maskylne
15 - Copy of a letter from Sir Joseph Banks to Lord Camarthen
16 - Extract of a letter from John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, to Lord Carmarthen
17 - Copy of letter from Charles Blagden to Comte de Cassini
18 - Copies of letters from Comte de Cassini, Paris, to Charles Blagden
19 - Copy of letter from Charles Blagden to Comte de Cassini, Paris
20 - Letter from Comte de Cassini, Paris
21 - Copy of a letter to Comte de Cassini
22 - Copy of a letter Charles Blagden to Comte de Cassini
23 - General William Roy, "Major General Roy's Account of the Expenditure of £2,000 received by him from Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, for carrying on the Trigonometrical Operation"
24 - General William Roy, Receipts for various sums of money on account from Sir Joseph Banks during the progress of the Trigonometrical Survey
25 - Letter from Nevil Maskelyne, Geenwich, to General William Roy
26 - Minute of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society
27 - Letter from Edward Williams, Hounslow Heath, to Sir Joseph Banks
28 - Letter from Edward Williams, Mr Mudge, Mr Dalby to Sir Joseph Banks
29 - Letter from Edward Williams, Mr Mudge, Mr Dalby to Sir Joseph Banks
30 - Letter from Edward Williams to Sir Joseph Banks
31 - Letter from Edward Williams to Sir Joseph Banks
32 - Letter from Edward Williams, Woolwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
33 - Letter from Edward Williams, Woolwich, to Sir Joseph Banks
34 - Short note about the measurement of the base on Hounslow Heath, by General William Roy
35 - Letter from Edward Williams, Woolwich
36 - Letter from Duke of Richmond & Gordon, St James's Square, to Sir Joseph Banks
37 - Letter from Duke of Richmond & Gordon, St James's Square, to Sir Joseph Banks
38 - Letter from James Livingstone, Sheperton, to Sir Joseph Banks
39 - Letter from Mr Cotton, Treasury, to Sir Joseph Banks
40 - Letter from Cotton, Treasury Chambers, to Sir Joseph Banks
41 - Letter from Edward Williams, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
42 - Letter from Edward Williams, Highclere Beacon nr Whitchurch Hants, to Sir Joseph Banks
43 - Letter from Edward Williams, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
44 - Note on methods of working on the Trigonometrical Society
45 - General William Roy, "Remarks on a paper put into his Majesties hands by the Duke of Marlborough"
46 - Letter from Robert Hay, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
47 - "Subjects for consideration in the proposed survey of the River Thames"
48 - Minute of a meeting of the Thames Level Committee
49 - Minute of a meeting of the Thames Level Committee
50 - Minute of a meeting of the Thames Level Committee
51 - Letter from JA Lloyd, Gravesend, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
52A - Letter from JA Lloyd, Blackfriars, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
52B - Letter from JA Lloyd, Blackfriars, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
53 - Bill, for books paper and stationery, for James Gardner, from JA Lloyd
54 - Bill, from Troughton & Simms, Instrument Makers, to JA Lloyd
55 - Bill, from Troughton & Simms, Instrument Makers, to JA Lloyd
56 - Letter from JA Lloyd, Greenwich, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
57 - Draft letter from P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, to JA Lloyd
58 - JA Lloyd, "An Account of Expenditure of the Thames Levelling Commission to the 17th July"
59 - JA Lloyd, "Expences of the Thames Levelling Commission from its commencement to its completion to London Bridge"
60 - Letter from JA Lloyd, Salopian Coffee House, to Henry Kater
61 - Report on JA Lloyd's accounts for the Thames Level Committee
62 - Letter from JA Lloyd to the President & Council of the Royal Society
63 - Letter from JA Lloyd to Henry Kater
64 - Letter from JA Lloyd to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
65 - Letter from Horace Twiss, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
66 - Letter from Horace Twiss (for Sir George Murray), Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
67 - Letter from WS Stratford (for the Astronomer Royal) to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
68 - Letter from J Stewart, Treasury, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
69 - Letter from J Stewart, Treasury, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
70 - Letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
71 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society, to J Stewart, Treasury
72 - Letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
73 - Letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society, to Horace Twiss
74 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun Kelso, to the President & Council of the Royal Society
75 - Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine, Secretary, Royal Society, to Sir Thomas Brisbane
76 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun, Kelso, to Edward Sabine, Secretary, Royal Society
77 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun, Kelso, to the President and Council of the Royal Society
78 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun, Kelso, to Sir George Murray
79 - Copy of a letter from James Dunlop
80 - Letter from Charles Rumker, London, to Robert Hay
81 - Copy of a letter from Thomas Brisbane, Makerstoun, Kelso, to Sir George Murray
82 - Copy of a letter from Charles Rumker to Robert Hay
83A - Letter from J Stewart, Treasury, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
83B - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society, to J Stewart, Treasury
84 - Letter from Charles Rumker to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
85 - Letter from Robert Hay, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
86 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
87 - Letter from Robert Hay, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
88 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
89 - Letter from Charles Rumker to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
90 - Charles Rumker, "Memorandum to Davies Gilbert esq MP, President of the Royal Society"
91 - Letter from Robert Hay, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
92 - Copy of letter from Edward Sabine to Sir Thomas Brisbane
93 - Letter from Charles Rumker to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
94 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane to the President and Council of the Royal Society
95 - Letter from Charles Rumker to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
96 - Letter from Charles Rumker to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
97 - Letter from Robert Hay, Downing Street, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
98 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society, to Charles Rumker
99 - Letter from Charles Rumker to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
100 - Draft of a letter from P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, to Charles Rumker
101 - Letter from Francis Baily to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
102 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society, to Francis Baily
103 - Letter from Thomas Brisbane to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
104 - Letter from Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
105 - Letter from John Barrow, Admiralty, to the Secretary, Royal Society
106 - Letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Peter Mark Roget, Secretary, Royal Society, dated at Slough
107 - Letter from Captain Smyth, Bedford, to James Hudson, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
108 - Minute of a meeting of the Southern Hemisphere Observatories Committee
109 - Letter from Charles Rumker, Hamburg, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
110 - Letter from Charles Rumker, Hamburg, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
111 - Letter from Charles Rumker, Hamburg, to Davies Gilbert
112 - Letter from RH Crew, Board of Ordnance, to Sir Joseph Banks
113 - Draft letter from Sir Joseph Banks (to RH Crew, Board of Ordnance)
114 - Short extracts from the Journal Book and the Minutes of the Council
115 - Letter from J Sargent, Board of Ordnance, to Sir Joseph Banks
116 - Copy of letter from Sir Joseph Banks
117 - Letter from Martin, Sepping, Legge, Navy Office, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
118 - Letter from WS Harris, Plymouth, to the President and Council of the Royal Society
119 - Letter from FMF Smith, Royal Engineers Office (to Board of Ordnance)
120 - Letter from R Byham, Board of Ordnance, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
121 - Letter from CW Pasley, Chatham, to Davies Gilbert
122 - Copy of a letter from Davies Gilbert to CW Pasley
123 - Board of Ordnance, "Queries submitted to a Committee of the Council of the Royal Society by the Board of Ordnance"
124 - Royal Society, "Answers to the Queries submitted to a Committee of the Council of the Royal Society by the Board of Ordnance"
125 - Letter from Thomas Young, Board of Longitude, to W T Brande, Secretary, Royal Society
126 - Letter from Sir John Barrow, Admiralty, to W T Brande, Secretary, Royal Society
127 - Letter from John Barrow, Admiralty, to P M Roget, Secretary, Royal Society
128 - Letter from Beaufort, Admiralty, to Edward Sabine
129 - Letter from George Harrison, Treasury Chambers, to Sir Humphry Davy, President, Royal Society
130 - Charles Babbage, "Copies of the correspondence between the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and the President and Council of the Royal Society relative to an Invention of Mr Babbage"
131 - Letter from Charles Babbage, Devonshire Street, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
132 - Charles Babbage, "Statement respecting Mr Babbage's Calculating Machine"
133 - Letter from F Stewart, Treasury, to Davies Gilbert, President, Royal Society
134 - Minute of a meeting of the Babbage Engine Committee
135 - Babbage Engine Committee, "Report of the Committee...to consider the subject referred to in Mr Stewart's letter, relative to Mr Babbage's calculating engine, & to report thereon"
136 - Minute of a meeting of the Babbage Engine Committee
137 - Part of a report or resolution of the Babbage Engine Committee
138 - Extract from a Treasury Minute no 2964
139 - Letter from J Stewart, Treasury, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
140 - Copy of letter from Charles Babbage, Dorset Street, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
141 - Letter from J Stewart, Treasury, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
142 - Copy of report from M I Brunel, Bryan Donkin and Field to Viscount Althrop
143 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Slough, to P M Roget
144 - Letter from Bryan Donkin to James Hudson, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
145 - Minute of a meeting of the Committee to consider Mr Stewart's letter respecting Mr Babbage's machine
146 - Minute of a meeting of the Committee to consider Mr Stewart's letter respecting Mr Babbage's machine
147 - Letter from M I Brunel to Henry Warburton
148 - Incomplete minute of a meeting of the Committee to consider Mr Stewart's letter respecting Mr Babbage's machine
149 - Report of the Committee to consider Mr Stewart's letter respecting Mr Babbage's machine
150 - Letter from Henry Warburton
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