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1 - Letter, 'The comet or aurora of March 10 1760' from Mark Day to Thomas Birch
2 - Letter, 'Antiquities in Italy' from Ridolfino Venuti to John Nixon
Expand 3 - Paper, 'Of the frog-fish of Surinam' by George Edwards 3 - Paper, 'Of the frog-fish of Surinam' by George Edwards
4 - Paper, 'Of a fractured humerus' by Charles White
5 - Letter, 'Of the frog-fish of Surinam' from Henry Baker to Thomas Birch
6 - Letter, 'A spiral thermometer' from John Tuberville Needham to James Parsons
7 - Letter, 'Of Mark Day's letter on the comet or aurora of March 10 1760' from Nathaniel Bliss to Morton
8 - Letter, 'Of a bone found in the pelvis of a man at Brussels' from Terence Brady to Thomas Birch
9 - Letter, 'Account of 'tractatio de miliarum origine' by Carlo Alioni' from Swithin Adee to the Royal Society
10 - Paper, 'Recovery from the effects of a poisonous dose of euphorbium tincture' by Francis Willis
11 - Letter, 'Artificial cold produced at Petersburg' from Nicolaus de Hinsel to DR de Castro
12 - Paper, 'Complete luxuation of the thigh bone' by Charles White
13 - Letter, 'Of the flux and reflux of the sea' from Matthias Franck to the Royal Society
14 - Letter, 'Of a supposed accidental cross between a pheasant and a turkey' from George Edwards to Thomas Birch
15 - Letter, 'Acknowledges his election to the Royal Society' from Comte de Saluces [Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo] to the Royal Society
16 - Letter, 'Acknowledges his election to the Royal Society' from Jean Baptiste Bernard to the Royal Society
17 - Letter, 'Of a late discovery of asbestos' from John Tuberville Needham to Thomas Birch
18 - Letter, 'Of the labour of certain bees' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray
19 - Paper, 'Of a case of right-side paralysis' by A Paulsohn
20 - Letter, 'A luxated thigh-bone reduced' from Charles Yonge to John Huxham
21 - Letter, 'Of dislocations' from John Huxham to William Watson
22 - Paper, 'A proposal to prevent noxious effects of exposure to dews at night in hot countries' by Stephen Hales
23 - Paper, 'A proposal for discovering the annual parallax of Sirius' by Nevil Maskelyne
24 - Paper, 'Of the approaching transit of Venus' by Roger Joseph Boscovich
25 - Letter, 'A discovery in magnetism' from Abraham Mason to George Parker
26 - Letter, 'Concerning electricty' from Thorbern Olof Bergman to Benjamin Wilson
27 - Paper, 'The oares and power of spring that puts them in action' from unknown author
28 - Paper, 'Of cicuta and conium' by Stanesby Alchorne
Expand 29 - Paper, 'Concerning a memoir by Jean Joseph de Sue, a celebrated surgeon and anatomist' by W Bromfield 29 - Paper, 'Concerning a memoir by Jean Joseph de Sue, a celebrated surgeon and anatomist' by W Bromfield
30 - Paper, 'Of the eclipse of the Moon of 22 Nov 1780' by James Short
31 - Paper, 'The loss of use of the hands by cleansing brass wire' by Samuel More
32 - Letter, 'Of the use of furze in fencing' from David Wark to Thomas Birch
33 - Letter, 'Of a remarkable halo' from Thomas Barker to William Stukeley
34 - Letter, 'Concerning David Wark's paper' from W Johnson to the Royal Society
35 - Letter, 'Translated extracts of a letter on the parallax of the Moon' from Nicolas Louis de La Caille to William Watson
36 - Paper, 'Further experiments with bovey coal' by Jeremiah Milles
37 - Letter, 'Of a meteor; and of a whirlwind' from John Winthrop to Thomas Birch
38 - Paper, 'A theorum of the aberration of light' by Nevil Maskelyne
39 - Paper, 'Of some antiquities and curious natural productions shown to the Royal Society' by Richard Ossory
40 - Paper, 'Official report on a large collection of stones from Siberia sent by Count S' by James Parsons
41 - Paper, 'Translated extract of a letter. Thanks for his election as FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] and remarks on the preparations for observing the Transit of Venus' by Benedict Ferner
42 - Letter, 'Of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Philip Carteret Webb
43 - Letter, 'Concerning cicutas' from Anton Storck to William Hudson
44 - Letter, 'The eruption of Vesuvius' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray
45 - Letter, 'Of checking the too luxuriant growth of fruit trees' from Keane Fitzgerald to Peter Collinson
46 - Letter, 'Computation of lives' from James Burrow to Peter Collinson
47 - Paper, 'Of urticamarina (marine polyps)' by Joseph Gaertner
48 - Letter, 'Thanks for election as FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society]' from Jean Joseph Le Sue
49 - Letter, 'Of the late eruption of Mount Vesuvius' from Robert Mackinlay to the Earl of Morton
50 - Paper, 'A skewer thrown up by a Pomeranian dog' by unknown author
51 - Paper, 'Of a production of nature at Dunbar like the Giant's Causeway' by Richard Ossory
Expand 52 - Paper, 'Of a worm from Dominique [Dominica] having a plant growing from the head' by Isaac Matthew 52 - Paper, 'Of a worm from Dominique [Dominica] having a plant growing from the head' by Isaac Matthew
53 - Paper, 'Three magnetic experiments' by Henry Temple Croker
54 - Letter, 'On Isaac Matthew's paper on a worm from Dominique [Dominica] having a plant growing from the head' from Emanuel Mendez Da Costa to George Edwards
55 - Letter, 'Thermometric observations' from Comte de Saluces [Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo] to Henry Baker
56 - Letter, 'Observations of Jupiter's satellites' from Richard Dunthorne to Charles Mason
57 - Letter, 'Of a parallatic machine rendered movable for observing the Transit of Venus' from Claude Simeon Passement
58 - Letter, 'On productions in Scotland similar to the Giant's Causeway' from Emauel Mendez da Costa to Richard Pococke
59 - Letter, 'Of the Transit of Venus' from Daniel Dumaresq to Thomas Hollis
60 - Paper, 'Dissertatio de zoophytis' by Job Baster
Expand 61 - Paper, 'Of a monopode foetus' by Job Baster61 - Paper, 'Of a monopode foetus' by Job Baster
62 - Paper, 'Of the aberration of light reflected at spherical superficies and lenses' by Sanuel Klingenstierna
63 - Letter, 'Of an uncommon phenomenon; a correction' from John Stevens to Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Expand 64 - Paper, 'Of certain undescribed worms' by Henry Baker64 - Paper, 'Of certain undescribed worms' by Henry Baker
65 - Letter, 'Of some plates of white glass found at Herculaneum' from John Nixon to Charles Morton
66 - Paper, 'An account of Klingenstierna's paper' by Robert More
67 - Letter, 'Of the ceppus' from Daniel Lysons to Robert More
68 - Paper, 'Register of baptisms and burials of Holy Cross, Salop.' by Robert More
69 - Letter, 'On corals' from William Stukeley to Henry Baker
70 - Letter, 'Of an earthquake at Lisbon on 31 March 1761' from Charles Molloy to Keane Fitzgerald
71 - Letter, 'Of the earthquake at Lisbon on 31 March 1761' from unknown author to Joseph Salvador
72 - Paper, 'Titles of papers in their Transactions' from the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
73 - Letter, 'Of Dr Wilkin's 'Essay towards a real character and a philosophical language'' from T Cunningham to Charles Morton
74 - Letter, 'An apparatus to show the passing of two bodies of equal cube through each other' from T Cunningham to the Royal Society
75 - Letter, 'Of a case of ossification of muscles' from William Henry to William Cadogan
76 - Letter, 'On the Transactions of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences for 1754-5' from Emanuel Mendez da Costa
77 - Paper, 'On corals' by William Stukeley
78 - Paper, 'Of the earthquake of March 31 as observed at Funchal' by Thomas Heberden
79 - Paper, 'Of zoophytes' by William Stukeley
80 - Letter, 'Of corals' from John Stevens to Henry Baker
81 - Paper, 'A new method for taking the place of the Moon' by Samuel Dunn
82 - Letter, 'Of Civita Urchina near Corneto' from Thomas Jenkins to Thomas Hollis
83 - Letter, 'Of a glass mug melted by the discharge of a bomb at Fort St George, Feb 25 1761' from Ralph Taylor to William Hirst
Expand 84 - Paper, 'On the glass mug melted by the discharge of a bomb at Fort St George, Feb 25 1761; and on a stick insect' from William Hirst to Samuel Mead84 - Paper, 'On the glass mug melted by the discharge of a bomb at Fort St George, Feb 25 1761; and on a stick insect' from William Hirst to Samuel Mead
85 - Paper, 'On the loss of Malleus and an Incus after a putrid fever' by Philip Morant
86 - Letter, 'Concerning the post-mortem examination of the body of the late King' from Frank Nicholls to George Parker
87 - List, 'Papers read between St Andrew's Day 1760 and St Andrew's Day 1761'
88 - Letter, 'Of a burning rock near Islamabad and of a flaming well' from John Wood to J Perry
89 - Paper, 'Agitation of waters in Mounts Bay on 31 March 1761' by William Borlase
90 - Letter, 'A surgical case - a knife broken off in the body' from Thomas Baker to Thomas Birch
91 - Paper, 'Of the tides at Gibraltar' by Henry More
92 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations, 1761' by Peter Gabry
93 - Paper, 'Of a man stupified by by the smoke of seacoal' by Thomas Frowen
94 - Paper, 'Trial at sea of one of John Harrison's watches' by D Digges
95 - Letter, 'His late conjectures in an ineditied Parthian coin' from John Nixon to John Swinton
96 - Paper, 'On the occasion of forwarding a book' by Johann Baptist Bohadsch
97 - Letter, 'On the aurora' from John Bartram to Benjamin Franklin
98 - Letter, 'Translation of a letter when forwarding two theses on the institutes of chemistry' from Jean Bernard to James Parsons
99 - Paper, 'Of the worm in wood; of swallows wintering; of copper springs; of fur of animals; and of noxious animals in England' by Richard Forster
100 - Letter, 'Of an agitation of the sea at Barbadoes' from Abraham Mason to Thomas Birch
Expand 101 - Paper, 'Of an octopus' by L Nicola101 - Paper, 'Of an octopus' by L Nicola
102 - Paper, 'Of double refraction in crystals' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria
103 - Letter, 'Observations of aurora borealis made in Sweden' from Thorbern Olof Bergman to Benjamin Wilson
104 - Paper, 'A singular halo' by J Merrick
105 - Letter, 'On withdrawing a paper' from Edward Hussey Delaval to Benjamin Wilson
106 - Letter, 'Three surgical cases' from John Huxham to William Watson
107 - Paper, 'Of the agitation of the sea on July 28 and of two thunderstorms' by William Borlase
108 - Letter, 'A case of mortification of limbs, a family at Wrathisham in Suffolk' from Charlton Wollaston to William Heberden
Expand 109 - Paper, 'Of a stone axe' by William Stukeley109 - Paper, 'Of a stone axe' by William Stukeley
110 - Letter, 'Of the Wrathisham case communicated by Charlton Wollaston' from James Bones to George Baker
111 - Paper, 'Of distilling fresh from sea water; attempy to use solar heat by means of a concave speculum' by John Robertson and James Lind
112 - Letter, 'Of the late lunar eclipse May 7 1762' from Samuel Dunn to the Royal Society
113 - Paper, 'Of a remarkable sepulchral monument found near Ashford in Derbyshire' by Samuel Watt
114 - Letter, 'Of finding longitude at sea by observation of the Moon' from Nevil Maskelyne to Thomas Birch
115 - Paper, 'Shows a white woodcock' by Grimston
116 - Paper, 'Of the laid wheat eaten by the sufferers in the Wrathisham case' by Henry Baker and James Bones
117 - Letter, 'On antique sculptures' from Edward Wortley Montagu to George Parker
118 - Letter, 'Of experiments on absorption of air in burning' from Comte de Saluces [Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo] to Henry Baker
119 - Paper, 'Of finding longitude at sea, by observations of the Moon' by Nevil Maskelyne
120 - Paper, 'Of the Julian calander' by William Rivet
121 - Letter, 'Of an earthquake on 9 June 1761' from John Stephens to the Royal Society
122 - Letter, 'Of an inundation' from William Arderon to Henry Baker
123 - Letter, 'On the occasion of sending books to the Society' from Amquetil Duperon to Thomas Birch
124 - Letter, 'The case of mortification described previously' from Charlton Wollaston to Thomas Birch
125 - Letter, 'Accompanying 31 coloured plates for a third part of his Gleanings of Natural History' from George Edwards to Thomas Birch
126 - Letter, 'Concerning the death of Dr Bradley on 13 July 1762' from Daniel Lysons to George Parker
127 - Letter, 'Of books presented' from Sauveur Francois Morand to George Parker
128 - Pamphlet, 'Premiums offered' from the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
129 - Pamphlet, 'Prize offered for 1764' from the Royal Academy of Surgery, Paris
130 - Letter, 'Presenting his treatise on pit-coal' from David Maine to the Royal Society
131 - Note, 'Problems in mechanics' by unknown author
132 - Letter, 'Dedicates his latest book to the Royal Society' from Rudolf Erich Raspe to George Parker
133 - List, 'Papers read before the Royal Society from St Andrew's Day 1761 to St Andrew's Day 1762'
134 - Paper, 'Observatio cometae qui mense Maio anno 1759 apparuit [Observation of a comet that appeared in May in the year 1759]' by Pieter Gabry
135 - Letter, 'Remarkable decrease of the river Eden' from William Milbourne to George Parker
136 - Letter, 'Of two celts from a bog near Castle Jane' from Richard Pococke to George Parker
137 - Letter, 'Of electricity in tetanus' from William Watson to the Royal Society
138 - Letter, 'Withdrawing from the Fellowship on election as Clerk' from Emanuel Mendez Da Costa to George Parker
139 - Pamphlet, 'Prize for 1764' from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris
140 - Paper, 'Account of his book 'Traduction nouvelle des pseaumes de David [New Translation of the Psalms of David]' by Langlois
141 - Letter, 'Of the plague at Aleppo' from Thomas Dawes to Charles Lyttelton
142 - Letter, 'Forwarding copies of his memoir on the prevention of epidemics' from Jean Baptiste Nicholas Boyer to the Royal Society
143 - Letter, 'On cold in St Petersburg in the winter of 1762-3' from Simon Peter Pallas and Emanuel Mendez Da Costa
144 - Letter, 'On astronomical matters' from Paolo Frisi to the Royal Society
145 - Letter, 'Of a remarkable darkness on 19 October' from James Stirling to John Duncan
146 - Letter, 'Of a marine insect' from Andrew Peter Dupont to Emanuel Mendez Da Costa
147 - Letter, 'Send specimens of newspaper from a plant called Bayssus filamentis plumosis volantibus' from Alexander Dick to James Duncan
148 - Letter, 'Address to the President Councill and Fellows of the Royal Society from the Governers of the King's College of the province of New York' from Kings College, New York
149 - Letter, 'Concerning the gift of the latest volume of the Memoirs of the French Academy of Sciences' from the French Academy of Sciences to the Royal Society
150 - Letter, 'In defense of Mercator's chart' from William Mountaine to Charles Morton
151 - Paper, 'An account of da Saluce's 'Memoire sur le fluide elastique de la poudre a canon [On the elastic fluid of gunpowder]'' by John Ellicott
152 - Paper, 'Of a species of Ophrys probably that names by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica' by Georg Dionysius Ehret
153 - Letter, 'On electrical experiments' from Ebenzer Kinnersley to Benjamin Franklin
154 - Letter, 'On electricity and thunderstorms' from Thorbern Olaf Bergman to Benjamin Wilson
155 - Paper, 'A meteor seen at Bideford 5 December 1762' by B Donn
156 - Letter, 'Remarks on swallows on the Rhine' from Francois Achard to Peter Collinson
157 - Paper, 'Of a new Peruvian plant' by Georg Dionysius Ehret
158 - Letter, 'With a book 'L'application de l'algebre a la physique [The application of algebra to physics]' from Jacopo Belgrado to
159 - Letter, 'Of two Roman inscriptions found at Netherby' from John Taylor to Charles Lyttelton
160 - Letter, 'Of a curious fish' from James Ferguson to Thomas Birch
161 - Letter, 'Of willow-bark in ague' from Edward Stone to George Parker
162 - Letter, 'An observation in optics (vision in fish)' from George Edwards to Thomas Birch
163 - Paper, 'To get timely notice when a house is on fire' by Arthur Reid
164 - Letter, 'Of a fire escape' from Arthur Reid to the Royal Society
165 - Letter, 'On a fire escape' from Samuel Dunn to Thomas Birch
166 - Letter, 'On his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society' from Michel Adanson to George Parker
167 - Letter, 'Sending a treatise by Delius 'De ovis muliebribus'' from Hill to George Parker
168 - Letter, 'Of purifying air in hospitals' from Thomas White to Thomas Birch
169 - Letter, 'Eclipse of the Sun 1 April 1764' from James Ferguson to George Parker
170 - Letter, 'Of an earthquake in the East Indies and two eclipses observed at Calcutta' from William Hirst to Thomas Birch
171 - Paper, 'Earthquake at Islamabad 2 April 1762' by Edward Gulston
172 - Letter, 'Of earthquakes' from Edward Gulston to John Carnac
173 - Letter, 'Of earthquakes' from Edward Gulston to John Carnac [Copy]
174 - Letter, 'A medical case' from Josiah Colebrooke to George Parker
175 - Letter, 'Electrical experiments' from John Bevis to Benjamin Wilson
176 - Paper, 'Of animal and vegetable motion' by unknown author ('a country gentleman')
177 - Paper, 'Of securing chimneys in high winds' by William Payne
178 - Paper, 'A hard winter in Warsaw' by N M Wolfe
179 - Paper, 'Roman inscriptions at Tunis copied in 1730' by John Locke
180 - List, 'Papers read before the Royal Society from 13 January 1763 to 22 December 1763'
181 - Memorandum, 'On the meteorological report for 1763 sent by Peter Gabry and a letter desiring the election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Jean Ferapie Dudieu' by Emanuel Mendez da Costa
182 - Paper, 'Of the hot wind of the Arabian desert' by Kidd
183 - Paper, 'Of the belemnite' by Joshua Platt
184 - Paper, 'Of the areameter for land surveying' by Robert Lewis
185 - Letter, 'Of lime-tree bark' from Reverend Bryce to James Douglas
186 - Paper, 'Stones from the Cabrach, Banffshire' by unknown author
187 - Letter, 'Sheaves of rays from the Sun among clouds' from Samuel Dunn to Thomas Birch
188 - Letter, 'Of rainfall' from William Borlase to James Douglas
189 - Letter, 'Barometer readings' from Robert Wardale to James Douglas
190 - Letter, 'Of a substance like paper (asbestos) from Cortona' from Ludovico Coltellini to the Royal Society
191 - Paper, 'Of the cicada of North America' by Peter Collinson
192 - Paper, 'Of the plague at Constantinople' from Mordach Mackenzie to James Porter
193 - Letter, 'Of an extraordinary tide at Bristol' from Josiah Tucker to Thomas Birch
194 - Letter, 'Of gordii - horse-hair worms - with literary news' from Emanuel Mendez da Costa to Thomas Birch
195 - Letter, 'Observations of Jupiter's satellites' from Samuel Dunn to Thomas Birch
196 - Paper, 'Thermometric observations in 1763' by unknown author
197 - Paper, 'Of Vitaliano Donati's death' by Comte de Perron
198 - Letter, 'Of Polish cochineal' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker
199 - Letter, 'Thanks for his election to the Royal Society' from Ferdinand Berthoud to
200 - Letter, 'An account of the fish from Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia] called Jaculator' from Johann Albrecht Schlosser to Peter Collinson
201 - Paper, 'Two remarkable sunspots' by Samuel Dunn
202 - Paper, 'A machine for navigators to ascertain in thick mist the height' by E of Bremen
203 - Paper, 'Of pholas' by La Faille
204 - Paper, 'Of the scallop' by William Hutchinson
205 - Paper, 'Observations of the lunar eclipse of 17 March at Liverpool' by James Ferguson
206 - Letter, 'Observations of an eclipse of the sun' from Mark Day to Thomas Birch
207 - Letter, 'Of cold in Bedfordshire, 22 November 1763' from John Howard to John Canton
208 - Letter, 'Of the solar elipse of April 1' from Edward Spry to James Douglas
209 - Letter, 'Of inscriptions on marble brought from the coast of Barbary' from John Wilkinson to Henry Baker
210 - Letter, 'Concerning a book on Surinam' from J P Spiering to Edward Mendez da Costa
211 - Pamphlet, 'The prize for 1765' from the Royal Academy of Surgery, Paris
212 - Paper, 'A medical case [taenia] by George Wood
213 - Letter, 'Astronomical observations' from Christian Mayer to James Douglas
214 - Letter, 'Of the gout' from Josephus de Brodo to George Parker
215 - Paper, 'Of the eclipse of the Sun of 1 April 1764 and of telescope glasses' by John Bevis
216 - Letter, 'Of the vegetating flie of Dominique' from John Martin Butt to Charles Lyttelton
217 - Paper, 'Eclipse of the Sun of April 1 1764' by The Spalding Society, communicated by William Stukeley
218 - Paper, 'Of the use of the ganglions of the nerves' by James Johnstone
219 - Paper, 'Of the singular effect of a foetid spozem in hysterick melancholy' by Philip Friedrich Gmelin
220 - Paper, 'Of an injury to the skull and brain of a child seven years old' by Francis Geach
221 - Letter, 'Solar spots' by Samuel Dunn
222 - Letter, 'Of three fiery meteors in New England' from Thomas Clap to John Pringle
223 - Memorandum, 'Da Costa presents a small bottle made of 'caoutchouc'; Duane present twenty five fossils [minerals] from Sheffield'
224 - Letter, 'Plan for strengthening ship's decks' from Thomas Ferguson
225 - Paper, 'Conjectures upon the nature and motion of meteors' by Thomas Clap
226 - Letter, 'Of protection from lightning' from William Watson to George Parker
227 - Paper, 'Prevention of ill effects of lightning, anent Captain Dibden's observations' by Benjamin Wilson
228 - Letter, 'The solar eclipse of April 1, observed at Rome' from the Collegio Romano, Rome, communicated by John Morgan
229 - Paper, 'On two kinds of latkspur, Delphinium consolidum and D latum' by Philip Friedrich Gmelin
230 - Letter, 'Latin letter' from Michael O'Brien to the Royal Society
231 - Letter, 'Of a steering machine' from James Towers to the Royal Society
232 - Letter, 'Of a machine for for forcing up any great weight' from Edward Beavess to the Royal Society
233 - Paper, 'Account of a Latin MS volume entitles 'Miscellanea Optica'' by Michael O'Brien
234 - Letter, 'Of a strange appearance in the northern sky' from Isaac Gray to Templeman
235 - Letter, 'Refers to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and send a prospectus of a book' from Jean Paul De Gua de Malves
236 - Paper, 'Of the effects of lightning on three ships in the East Indies' by Robert Veitch
237 - Paper, 'A leaf of the true rhubarb, raised from seed in Siberia' by Henry Baker
238 - List, 'Papers read before the Royal Society from St Andrew's Day 1763 to St Andrew's Day 1764'
239 - Letter, 'An account of the 'Memoire sur le Pholade' by Delafaille' from James Parsons to Thomas Birch
Expand 240 - Paper, 'Of an ear of corn drawn out the bladder of a man' by Terence Brady240 - Paper, 'Of an ear of corn drawn out the bladder of a man' by Terence Brady
241 - Memorandum, 'Henry Baker presents a monstrous Siberian lamb to the Royal Society'
242 - Paper, 'An account of an uncommon hydrocephalus' by John Huxham
243 - Paper, 'Of a centrifugal engine for raising water' by Robert Erskine
244 - Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Riga for December 1763 and January-March 1764 and on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society' from Nicholas de Himsel and Charles Messier
245 - Letter, 'Of an earthquake at Lisbon 26 December 1764' from unknown author to Samuel Chandler
246 - Letter, 'A petrified tree from a quarry at Portland' from Thomas Gilbert to the Royal Society
247 - Paper, 'Meditationes de eiaculatione aquae per concursum vis centrifugae [The reflection of the firing of water through the fusion of the centrifugal force]' by Gottfried Heinrich Grummert
248 - Papers, 'De destincta per lentes latas visione [The distinct vision through the lens fenders]' and 'De duobus paradoxis in scienta optica [The two paradoxes in the science of optics]' by Gottfried Heinrich Grummert
249 - Letter, 'Republic of letters' from Augustinus Seassarius to the Royal Society
250 - Letter, 'Covering books by Giovanni Battista Paitoni' from De Vignola to the Royal Society
251a - Paper, 'Concerning Mr Erskine's centrifugal machine' by John Bevis
251b - Paper, 'Antiquities of Westmoreland' by Thomas Machell
252 - Letter, 'On lenses' from G Maria della Torre to Thomas Birch
253 - Letter, 'Of an improved barometer' from Edward Spry to James Douglas
254 - Paper, 'A surgical case' by Thomas Adams
255 - Letter, 'A beautiful Chinese pheasant - the argus' from George Edwards to Peter Collinson
256 - Paper, 'Observatio singularis botanica de Delphinis D. Consolidum et D. Elatum [Botanical observations of the delphiniums, D. Consolidum and D. Elatum]' by Philip Friedrich Gmelin
257 - Letter, 'Account of Gmelin's work on the fossils of Wirtemberg' from Edward Mendez da Costa to Peter Collinson
258 - Paper, 'Concerning the axial motion of the Moon' from James Ferguson to George Parker
259 - Letter, 'Electrical and optical experiments' from S Hardy to John Maud
260 - Letter, 'Of longitudes at sea' from Joseph Miguel to the Royal Society
261 - Letter, 'Of improving the harbours and inland navigation of Great Britain' from C Holmes to James Douglas
262 - Letter, 'Of Mr Hardy's paper on colours produced by electricity' from Benjamin Wilson to Edward Hussey Delaval
263 - Paper, 'Testing residues of Harrogate waters' by unknown author
264 - Letter, 'Of a sondiell' from Charles Webb to George Parker
265 - Letter, 'On his book given to the Royal Society; new table of the Moon' from A C Clairault to John Bevis
266 - Paper, 'Of tides' by Heaton
267 - Letter, 'A dissertation on the nature of evaporation and on several phenomena of air, water and of boiling liquors' from Hugh Hamilton to Charles Dodgson
268 - Letter, 'History and practise of inoculation in the British American colonies' from Benjamin Gale to John Huxham
269 - Paper, 'A balance of a new construction, useful in the woollen manufacture' by William Ludlam
270 - Letter, 'On the treatment of snake-bite with salt' from Benjamin Gale to John Huxham
Expand 271 - Paper, 'Of the mineral elastic spirit or air contained in spa water' by William Brownrigg271 - Paper, 'Of the mineral elastic spirit or air contained in spa water' by William Brownrigg
272 - Paper, 'Of Roman coins found at Stowlangtofy in Suffolk in a pot' by Thomas Harmer
273 - Paper, 'The treatment of smallpox' by Silvester Gardiner
274 - Letter, 'Of Rheum palmatum' from John Hope to John Pringle
275 - Paper, 'Of a microscope' by unknown author
276 - Letter, 'Of new glasses for microscopes made at Naples by de Torre' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray
277 - Letter, 'Of green hemlock only a palliative in a case of cancer' from Josiah Colebrooke to Thomas Birch
278 - Letter, 'Of the impregnation of vegetables' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray
279 - Letter, 'Of an improved barometer' from James Ferguson to Thomas Birch
280 - Memorandum, 'Of fossil wood [and lignite]' by Emanuel Mendez da Costa
281 - Letter, 'Of the prevention of fires' from B A to the Royal Society
282 - Paper, 'Of a small orerry invented by J F' by James Ferguson
283 - Letter, 'Of the migration of swallows' from Samuel Finlay
284 - List, 'Papers read before the Society in 1765'
285 - Paper, 'Account of an uncommon dropsy' by John Huxham
286 - Report, 'On Mr Canton's experiments' by the Committee
287 - Letter, 'On the sexes of plants' from Francis Haskins Eyles Stiles to Daniel Wray
Expand 288 - Paper, 'A new baro-thermometer' by Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan288 - Paper, 'A new baro-thermometer' by Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan
289 - Paper, 'Effects of a thunderstorm on Pembroke College' by Griffith
290 - Letter, 'Of the nature and formation of sponges' from John Ellis to Daniel Charles Solander
291 - Paper, 'Le retour de la celebre comete de 1682 [The return of the famous comet of 1682]' by Charles Messier
292 - Letter, 'Accompanying a case of Roman medals' from Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan to Edward Mendez da Costa
293 - Paper, 'The solar eclipse of 16 August 1765 as observed at Colombes, Paris' by Charles Messier
294 - Letter, 'Of Roman coins found at Stowlangtoft. Now 12,000 more besides the first 240' from Thomas Harmer to the Royal Society
295 - Paper, 'Of an undescribed species of the stickle-back' by Thomas Harmer
296 - Paper, 'Of Palmyrene inscriptions at Teive' by John Swinton
297 - Letter, 'Of the water of Somersham, Hant' from Daniel Peter Layard to William Heberden
298 - Letter, 'On Somersham water' from Michael Morris to Daniel Peter Layard
299 - Letter, 'On electricity in medicine' from unknown author to James Douglas
300 - Letter, 'Of some new electrical experiments' from Giovanni Battista Beccaria to Thomas Birch
301 - Letter, 'Of the eclipse of the sun on 16 August 1765' by Joannes Luloss to Charles Morton
302 - Letter, 'Of an inedited Greek coin [colony]' from John Swinton to Thomas Birch
Expand 303 - Paper, 'Of a pump at Seville' by William Bowles303 - Paper, 'Of a pump at Seville' by William Bowles
304 - Letter, 'On the double horns of the rhinoceros' from James Parsons to James Douglas
305 - Paper, 'Formation of milk' by Thomas Percival
306 - Letter, 'Of native tin' from William Borlase to Edward Mendez da Costa
307 - Letter, 'A remarkable emphysema' from John Huxham to William Watson
308 - Letter, 'Of a new barometer' from Henry Pyefinch to Thomas Birch
309 - Letter, 'A journey from Cairo to the written mountains' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson
310 - Letter, 'Of two new comets' from Charles Messier to the Royal Society
311 - Letter, 'Influence of the imagination in pregnancy' from John Huxham to the Royal Society
312 - Paper, 'Of treating the opisthonos and tetanus' by John Wilkinson
313 - List, 'Papers read before the Royal Society'
314 - Letter, 'Of the petrified trees at Gilsland' from J Farish to James Douglas
315 - Letter, 'Of the poisoning of a family by eating roots mistaken for parsnips' from J Wilmer to William Watson
316 - Letter, 'Of a comet observed at Kirknewton' from Alexander Bryce to James Douglas
317 - Paper, 'Report on de Torre's miscroscope-glasses' by Henry Baker
318 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus on June 6, 1761' by Fredericus Mallet
319 - Paper, 'A hepatitus treated' by Robert Smith
320 - Paper, 'A further enquiry after an original universal standard for measures and weights' by Samuel Reynardson
321 - Paper, 'Another new comet, first seen on April 8' by Charles Messier
322 - Letter, 'Of the two comets of 1766' from Charles Messier to the Royal Society
323 - Paper, 'Experiments on the Peruvian bark' by Arthur Lee
Collapse 324 - Paper, 'New experiments on electricity' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria324 - Paper, 'New experiments on electricity' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria
325 - Paper, 'Proposals of a method for measuring degrees on longitude upon parallels of the equator' by John Michell
326 - Letter, 'The poisonous root named no. 315 not Cicuta but Hyoscyamus niger' from J Wilmer to William Watson
Expand 327 - Paper, 'A stone hammer-head from a hillock in St Cuthbert's Carlisle' by Charles Lyttelton327 - Paper, 'A stone hammer-head from a hillock in St Cuthbert's Carlisle' by Charles Lyttelton
328 - Letter, 'A specimen of of Blakia trinervis' by J Hill
329 - Letter, 'Of the second comet of 1766 - ephemeris calculates for May and June' from Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan and Charles Messier to Matthew Maty
Expand 330 - Paper, 'Observations on the ascarides' by John Philip de Limbourg330 - Paper, 'Observations on the ascarides' by John Philip de Limbourg
Expand 331 - Paper, 'Of an uncommon large hernia' by George Carlisle331 - Paper, 'Of an uncommon large hernia' by George Carlisle
332 - Paper, 'Further observations of the Jaculator fish' by Hommel
333 - Letter, 'Of the Jaculator fish' from Peter Simon Pallas to Peter Collinson
334 - Paper, 'Experiments on factitious air' by Henry Cavendish
335 - Paper, 'Of amphibious bipes' by John Hunter
336 - Paper, 'Further account of Polish cochineal' by N M Wolfe
337 - Paper, 'On the variation of the magnetic needle as observed on board H M S Montagu, 1760-62 by David Ross' by William Mountaine
338 - Letter, 'Of measuring the velocity of the wind' from Alexander Bryce to James Douglas
339 - Paper, 'Observations on the country and mines in Spain and Germany and of the foundation of the emery stone' by William Bowles
Expand 340 - Paper, 'Of a clock showing the age and phases of the Moon and the tides' by James Ferguson 340 - Paper, 'Of a clock showing the age and phases of the Moon and the tides' by James Ferguson
341 - Paper, 'Experiments on factitious air, part II' by Henry Cavendish
342 - Letter, 'Offers premium for optical glass' from Cesar Francois Cassini de Thury to Matthew Maty
343 - Paper, 'Experiments on factitious air, part III' by Henry Cavendish
Expand 344 - Paper, 'Commentarius de indole electrica turmalini [Commentary on the nature of the electrical Turmaline]' by Thorbern Olaf Bergman344 - Paper, 'Commentarius de indole electrica turmalini [Commentary on the nature of the electrical Turmaline]' by Thorbern Olaf Bergman
345 - Letter, 'Theory of the parallaxes of the altitude of the sphere' from Fredericus Mallet to the Royal Society
346 - Letter, 'On Blakey's fire engine; On Mungo Murray's astronomical clock; Of a contrivance for steaming a limb in bed' from James Ferguson to James Douglas
347 - Paper, 'Catalogue of the fifty plants for 1765 from the Chelsea Garden, numbers 2151-2200' by William Hudson
348 - Letter, 'Of the eclipse of 1765' from Emanuel Croy to James Douglas
349 - Paper, 'Of the East Indian elks' by James Parsons and Peter Collinson
350 - Paper, 'Of an operation for the extraction of 3 inches 10 lines of the bone of the upper arm' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat
351 - Letter, 'Of a new method of determining longitudes of places from observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites' from Peter William Wargentin to Nevil Maskelyne
352 - Letter, 'Of Coluber cerastes, the horned viper of Egypt' from John Ellis to James Douglas
353 - Paper, 'The weather at Quebec 1765-6' by Alexander Rose
354 - Letter, 'Of two Parthian coins' from John Swinton to James Douglas
355 - Paper, 'Account of a successful operation for Hydrops pectoris' by William Moreland
356 - Paper, 'Foetus humain monstreaux [A monstrous human foetus]' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat
357 - Paper, 'Of three substances mentioned by Arabic physicians - tabasheer, maimaraan, mamithsa' from John Channing to William Watson
Expand 358 - Paper, 'Of the curve formed by the shadow of an oblate spheroid' by George Witchell358 - Paper, 'Of the curve formed by the shadow of an oblate spheroid' by George Witchell
359 - Paper, 'An attempt to account for the universal deluge' by Edward King
360 - Paper, 'Of a monstrous calf' by P F J R
361 - Paper, 'An attempt to account for the formation of spars and crystals' by Edward King
362 - Paper, 'Experiments with camphor' by Alexander
363 - Paper, ' A remarkable aquatick insect' by Edward King
364 - Paper, 'The treatment of a medical case' by Thomas Percival
365 - Letter, 'Of the protection of buildings from lightning' from Paolo Frisi to Charles Morton
366 - Letter, 'Of a new invented instrument for fractured legs' from William Sharpe to James Parsons
367 - Letter, 'Locked jaw and paralysis cured by electricity' from Edward Spry to Charles Morton
368 - Letter, 'A narrative of the discovery of the Patagonias on the Easterly point of South America' from Matthew Maty
369 - Paper, 'Experiments on Rathbone-place water' by Henry Cavendish
370 - Paper, 'On andrachne' by George Dionysius Ehret
371 - Paper, 'Of Blakey's steam-engine' from James Ferguson to James Douglas
372 - Letter, 'The last eruption of Vesuvius' from William Hamilton
373 - Paper, 'Of a foetus with an imperfect brain and some supplementary observations on the use of ganglions' by James Johnstone
374 - Letter, 'Of three cures by electricity' from John Wyatt to Henry Baker
375 - Paper, 'Congitata de cometis' by John Winthrop
376 - Letter, 'Of swallowing a plum-stone' from Alexander Powell to James Douglas
Expand 377 - Paper, 'Attempt to ascertain the knowledge of the ancients about the East Indies' by John Caverhill377 - Paper, 'Attempt to ascertain the knowledge of the ancients about the East Indies' by John Caverhill
378 - Paper, 'Distance of the sun from the earth' by Samuel Horsley
379 - Paper, 'A hole burnt in a mahogany table by the sun shining through a glass decanter of water' by Owen Salusbury Brereton
380 - Paper, 'Of a way of increasing the power of electrical machines' by Charles L'Epinasse
381 - List, 'Papers read before the Society'
382 - Paper, 'Of barometer and thermometer readings for 1766, with notes from Dr William Borlase and from Lancelot St Aubyn on rain at Bridgwater 1765-6' by George Carlyle
383 - Letter, 'Of the heat of Bath-waters' from John Howard to William Watson
384 - Letter, 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to James Douglas
385 - Paper, 'Sur la plica polonica [On the Polish plait]' by unknown author
386 - Paper, 'Eclipse of the Sun 5 August 1766, observed at Newfoundland' by James Cook, communicated by John Bevis
387 - Letter, 'Of certain rural undertakings' from Maupine to the Royal Society
388 - Letter, 'Of the heat in Bengal' from William Martin to Emanuel Mendez da Costa
389 - Letter, 'De ponte Agrippinense [The Agrippinense bridge]' from Clifton Wintringham to Matthew Maty
390 - Paper, 'Experiments on Peruvian bark' by Thomas Percival
391 - Paper, 'The parallax and magnitude of fixed stars calculated from the quantity of their light' by John Michell
392 - Letter, 'Thermometric observations at Derby' from John Whitehurst to Benjamin Franklin
393 - Letter, 'Of a Parthian coin' from John Swinton to James Douglas
394 - Paper, 'A treatise on the natural history of the river Volga' by John Reinhold Forster
395 - Paper, 'Hydro-enterocele mortel' by Claude Nicholas Le Cat
396 - Paper, 'On the fecundity of fishes' by Thomas Harmer
397 - Paper, 'A set of electrical experiments' by Giovanni Battista Beccaria
398 - Paper, 'Specimen historiae naturalis volgensis' by Johann Reinhold Forster
399 - Letter, 'Some medical cases' from James Makittrick to the Royal Society
400 - Paper, 'An algebraical problem - evolution of a mechanical curve' by Pio Fantini
401 - Paper, 'Of improved water-wheels and the utilization of river power' by Frederic Mallet
402 - Paper, 'A new method of constructing sundials for any use' by James Ferguson
403 - Paper, 'Of the line described by the nave of a wheel compared to that of the tire' by George Morland
404 - Paper, 'Of a cataleptic patient' by Anthony Fothergill
405 - Paper, 'Of the formation of islands' by Alexander Dalrymple
406 - Letter, 'On the temperature of the Bath-waters in September 1752' from John Canton to the Royal Society
407 - Paper, 'The height of the Sun's atmosphere calculated from the height of the Sun's spots' by Samuel Horsley
408 - Letter, 'Of cubick equations' from Edmund Stone to the Royal Society
409 - Letter, 'Of Pompey's pillar in Egypt' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson
410 - Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Plymouth and of intense cold there during the winter' from William Watson and John Huxham
411 - Letter, 'Of a new electrical machine [electrometer] and of some experiments made with it' from Timothy Lane to Benjamin Franklin
412 - Paper, 'Of the increase and mortality in Madeira' by Thomas Heberden
413 - Letter, 'Of elephants teeth' from Peter Collinson to Matthew Maty
414 - Letter, 'Of medicines for canine madness' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker
415 - Paper, 'Catalogue of the 50 plants for 1766 sent to the Royal Society from the Chelsea Garden' by William Hudson
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