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DM - Domestic Manuscripts: letters and papers relating to the administration of the Royal Society

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3 - Domestic Manuscripts Volume 3

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4 - Domestic Manuscripts Volume 4

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5 - Domestic Manuscripts Volume 5

1 - Draft of a letter about payment of arrears

2 - List of Fellows in arrears to the Royal Society, Michaelmas 1666

3 - List of Fellows in arrears to the Royal Society, Michaelmas 1673

4 - 'Arrears by some of of the Scotch Nobility and some others due to the R Society at Michaelmas 1673'

5 - 'Arrears of Physicians due to the R Society at Michaelmas 1673'

6 - 'Arrears of some of ye Nobility due to ye R Society at Michaelmas 1673'

7 - 'A List of the Arrears due at Michaelmas 1673 from such absent Members of the Royal Society as were by the Council orderd to be written to for the same'

8 - Draft of a letter about payment of arrears to the Royal Society

9 - 'The forme of a bond'

10 - 'A Forme proposed of the Legal obligation for paying the weekly contributions to be subscribed by the Fellows of the RS'

11 - 'Proposals humbly offered for better consideration'

12 - 'Proposals for the advancement of the Royal Society'

12A - Note on an order of the Council relating to the payment of arrears at Michaelmas 1673

13 - Draft of a standard letter concerning the payment of arrears to the Royal Society

14 - Notes concerning the appointment of Curators to the Royal Society and costs incurred by them

15 - Notes concerning the appointment of Curators to the Royal Society and costs incurred by them

16 - List of Fellows, seemingly in arrears in the payment of their subscriptions

17 - A list of names noted at the foot as being 'The 23 to be left out of the list to be printed against November next - and out of the Treasurer's booke for the future'

18 - 'Papers relating to old arrears'

19 - An account of 'Money paid by the Royall Society concerning Chelsey Colledge'

20 - Hooke's bills of expenditure by him on the Society's account, and an order dated 23 December 1681 by Sir Christopher Wren to Abraham Hill, Treasurer, to pay Hooke £40

21 - Receipts signed by Abraham Hill, Treasurer, Royal Society

22 - Advertisement to be inserted in newspapers, disclaiming responsibility for 'Expressions which some have thought Reflecting' in the 'Philosophical Transactions'

22A - Advertisement to be inserted in newspapers, stating the Royal Society's continued confidence in some Fellows against whom unspecified allegations had been made

23 - Advertisement to be inserted in newspapers, protesting against the publication in the 'Daily Post' for two dates in March 1731 of unauthorised and innacurate accounts of the Society's meetings

24 - A short note about Dr Richard Robinson

24A - Draft of an instrument appointing a person to deal with the will of Alexander Pitfeild

25 - Drafts, of a letter stating that a Fellow is in arrears; of a letter requesting payment of arrears and a draft of a receipt

26 - Drafts, of a letter stating that a Fellow is in arrears; of a letter requesting payment of arrears and a draft of a receipt

27 - 'Resolutions of the Council for 3 February 1727'

28 - Printed form of a bond about payment of subscriptions to the Royal Society

29 - Rules for the election of Fellows

30 - Form of an oath of allegiance

31 - Francis Hauksbee's bill for sorting and cataloguing all the "original letters of the Royal Society from their first foundation to the present time in the order of the alphabet & the order of time"

32 - Bill from Mr Graham for £32 for "making a dial for the meeting room of the Royal Society"

32A - Draft of a petition from the Society to the King for the power to purchase 'forfeited houses and tenements in Townes and Cities in Ireland'

33 - Reference by the King of a petition by the Royal Society, to the Lord Treasurer for his advice

34 - Drafts of letters about the question of soliciting subscriptions for the Society from persons (apparently Fellows) in Ireland

35 - 'Draught of a letter to the Lord Lieuttenant of Ireland concerning the Royal Society'

36 - Letter dated 3 January 1662 and endorsed 'A copy of the letter for granting of the fraccons of Accounts etc for the use of of the Royal Society'

37 - Draft of a petition from the Royal Society endorsed 'Petition to the King for the sole power of digging Allum Mines'

38 - A list of names of early Fellows of the Royal Society

39 - A list of names of early Fellows of the Royal Society

40 - List endorsed, 'The Members of the Royal Society'

41 - Draft of an instrument declaring that the Society have authorised Thomas Willizel, to 'pass into any parts of His Majesty's dominions' for the collection of 'whatever Nature may have stored every respective country with', and requesting anyone who can give him assistance to do so

42 - Draft of an instrument from Lord Brouncker appointing Spencer Hickman printer to the Royal Society

43 - Draft of a letter to Mrs Louden requesting the return of some books lent to the Royal Society by the late Mr Louden

44 - 'Articles of Agreement for a building in Crane Court in Fleet Street for the Honorary Royal Society'

45 - Draft of a petition from the Royal Society to Queen Anne, for leave to petition Parliament to insert a clause 'in the bill now depending...for impowering your Majesty to grant them a piece of land' in the Royal Mews, for the purpose of building a house for the Society

46 - Endorsed 'Copy of a letter from Mr Henry St John to the Board of Ordnance 12th December 1710'

47 - Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, giving the recommendations of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, as regards certain improvements needed there

48 - Draft of a letter from Isaac Newton to the Board of Ordnance, on the report of the Visitors of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich

49 - Form of a latin 'Diploma Regium', drawn up by Dr Ent

50 - Form of a latin 'Diploma Regium', drawn up by Dr Croon

51 - Fair copy of a latin 'Diploma Regium', drawn up by Dr Croon

52 - Fair copy of a latin 'Diploma Regium', drawn up by Dr Ent

53 - Fair copy of a diploma for Johannes Hevelius, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

54 - Draft of a diploma for Antonio Alvarez da Cunha, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

55 - Draft of a diploma for Renatus Franciscus Slusius, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

56 - Draft of a diploma for Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

57 - Fair copy of a diploma for Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

58 - Fair copy of a diploma for Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff, marking his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society

59 - Regulations providing for the election of Fellows 'where there are but two or three to be elected'

60 - Minute of a meeting of a Committee to be appointed 'to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatoes through all the parts of England'

61 - Opinion of the Committee for reviewing the Laws

62 - Report of the Committee appointed 'for collecting the Phenomena of nature and all philosophicall experiments hitherto observed, made and recorded'

63 - Minutes of meetings of the Committee for Agriculture

64 - Minutes of meetings of the Committee for Agriculture (endorsed as 'Transactions of the Georgicall Committee')

65 - 'An account given to the Society of the performance of the Georgicall Committee'

66 - Minutes of meetings of the Mechanicall Committee

67 - 'Transactions of the Mechanicall Committee'

68 - 'Transactions of the Committee for Correspondence'

69 - Opinion of John Hoskyns, William Erskine and Peter Balle concerning 'the manuscript bookes in the Library bestowed by the Honble Henry Lord Howard of Norfolke on the Royall Society'

70 - Resolution signed by Henry Oldenburg, appointing a Committee of the Royal Society to consider a way of determining the measure of a degree on the earth

71 - Recommendation that seven persons (named) 'do take into their Custody all the Rarities, bookes and other goods and chattells belonging to the Royall Society'

72 - 'Desiderata recommended to Dr Charleton'

72A - 'Desiderata from Mr Beale'

72B - 'Experiments recommended to several persons'

72C - 'Recommended to Mr Thomas Henshaw'

72D - 'Desiderata from Monsieur Le Febure'

72E - 'Recommended to the Right Hon. the Earls of Kincardine'

73 - 'Experiments etc recommended to Dr Balle'

73A - 'Desiderata to the Earle of Argyle'

73B - 'Desiderata to Dr Clarke'

73C - 'Captain Cock is desired'

73D - 'Sir Anthony Morgan'

73E - 'Experiments and Matters recommended to Mr William Balle'

74 - 'Desiderata recommended to Col Blunt'

74A - 'Recommended to Mr Evelyn'

74B - 'Sir Theodore de Vaux'

74C - 'Desiderata from Dr Christopher Wren'

75 - 'Recommended to Dr Croon'

76 - 'Experiments recommended to Dr Goddard'

77 - 'Recommended to Sir Robert Moray'

78 - 'Recommended to Mr Hill'

78A - 'The Right Hon Earl of Northampton'

78B - 'Experiments recommended to Sir George Ent'

78C - 'Experiments recommended to Dr Wilkins'

78D - 'Experiments proposed to William Neile'

79 - 'Desiderata from Monsieur Le Febure'

79A - 'Recommended to the Earle of Argyle'

79B - 'Recommended to Col Long'

79C - 'Recommended to Mr Daniel Cox'

79D - 'Recommended to Mr Hoskyns'

79E - 'Desired of my Lord Bishop of Exeter'

80 - 'Recommended to Mr Aubrey'

80A - 'Desiderata from Mr Charles Howard'

80B - 'Desiderata recommended to Dr Beale'

81 - Chronological list dating from 1633-1733, of donations to the Royal Society, 'extracted out of the Council Booke'

82 - Chronological list dating from 1633-1722, of donations to the Royal Society, 'extracted out of Journal Books of the weekly meetings'

83 - 'Benefactors & Benefactions by Lands & Houses etc'

84 - Chronological list of benefactors to the Royal Society, 1663-1721

85 - Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Royal Society or produced at a meeting, 1660-1669

86 - Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Society or produced at a meeting, 1669-1689

87 - Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Society or produced at a meeting, 1689-1702

88 - Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Society or produced at a meeting, 1702-1723

89 - Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Society or produced at a meeting, 1723-1734

90 - A list of benefactors of the Library and Museum

91 - A list of benefactors of the Library and Museum

92 - A list of 'Things doubtfull where to be placed'

93 - A list of 'Curiosities not particularized'

94 - Excerpts from the Council Book listing a painting and 'Artifical Things', both deposited in 1663

95 - A list of 6 books, given to the Royal Society by Dr Croone in 1682

96 - A list of items headed 'Quare abt value'

97 - Notes and queries, related to items in DM/5/96, a list of items headed 'Quare abt value'

98 - A list of benefactors to the Library, Museum and House

99 - A list of benefactors to the Library, Museum and House

100 - A list of benefactors to the Library, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time

101 - A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time

102 - A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time

103 - A list of 'Collegii Medicorum Londiniensium Fundatores et Benefactores'

104 - Form of a demand for 'one human body legally condemned and put to death' for the use of the Royal Society

105 - 'Copy of the Report of the Committee for inspecting the Repository'

106 - Copy of the instructions given to the Committee for inspecting the Repository

107 - Note of the names of the Council members newly sworn on 30 November 1733

108 - Drafts and fair copies of lists of benefactors

109 - Drafts and fair copies of lists of benefactors

110 - Drafts and fair copies of lists of benefactors

111 - List of actions of Charles II as founder and patron to the Royal Society

111a - Note on the donation by Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, of the Norfolk Library to the Royal Society

112 - List of actions of Charles II as founder and patron to the Royal Society

113 - 'Benefactors. Daniell Colwall Esq. Anno 1665, founded the Museum'

113A - 'Benefactors. Henry Duke of Norfolk, Anno , gave the Norfolk Library'

114 - List of benefactors to the Royal Society

115 - List of benefactors to the Royal Society

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Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Tweets by theRCN

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions

Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions

New Letter Books

New Letter Books

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