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1 - Letters, 'The approaching transit of Venus (includes copy of letter from the Empress Catherine to Count Orlow from Moscow)' from James Short to Matthew Maty
2 - Paper, 'Of some neutral salts made with vegetable acids and that the salt of amber is a particular salt' by Donald Monro
3 - Letter, 'The eruption of Mount Vesuvius of 1767' from William Hamilton to James Douglas
4 - Letter, 'Ascent of Vesuvius, January 24' from unknown author to Matthew Maty
5 - Paper, 'Of a worm voided by the penis' by J Vaughan
6 - Paper, 'Of the connexion between the parallaxes of the Sun and Moon; their densities and their disturbing forces on the ocean' by Patrick Murdoch
7 - Paper, 'On the force of percussion' by William Heberden
8 - Paper, 'Observations on the bones, supposed to be those of elephants, found near Ohio' by William Hunter
9 - Paper, 'A note concerning the the cold of 1740 and of this year' by James Short and John Bevis
10 - Paper, 'The latitude and longitude of the islands of St John and Cape Britain' by Wright
11 - Paper, 'The present air temperatures in Italy and that of seventeen centuries ago' by Daines Barrington
12 - Paper, 'Account of Dr Priestley's new experiments in electricity drawn up by Benjamin Franklin'
13 - Paper, 'An account of rings of prismatic colours formed by electrical explosions on metal surfaces' by Joseph Priestley
14 - Paper, 'On a method of preserving acorns in wax fit for vegetating; with a letter of approval from William Aiton of Kew' by John Ellis
15 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Carlisle in 1767' by George Carlyle
16 - Paper, 'Rainfall at Bridgewater, 1767' by unknown author
17 - Paper, 'Rainfall at Ludgvan, 1767' by William Borlase
18 - Letter, 'On the good effects of quasi root in some fevers' from Donald Monro and James Farley to Matthew Maty
19 - Paper, 'On pinguins' by Thomas Pennant
20 - Paper, 'Of the application of Dr Saunderson's therem to a curious question in chronology' by James Horsfall
21 - Paper, 'Of determining the solar parallax from the last transit of Venus' from Anders Planman to Matthew Maty
22 - Paper, 'Account of a new society in Holland for saving the lives of those apparently drowned' by Jan Albert Schlosser
23 - Paper, 'Of the manner of inoculation practised on the coast of Barbary and in Bengal' by Chais
Expand 24 - Paper, 'Memoire sur l'origine de la Belemnite [Memorandum on the origin of Belemnite]' by Philippe Fermin24 - Paper, 'Memoire sur l'origine de la Belemnite [Memorandum on the origin of Belemnite]' by Philippe Fermin
25 - Letter, 'Biblical chronology' from Antoine Gebelin to James Hutton
Expand 26 - Paper, 'On Croton spiciatum' by Peter Jonas Bergius26 - Paper, 'On Croton spiciatum' by Peter Jonas Bergius
Expand 27 - Paper, 'A medical case' by Giuseppe Benvenuti27 - Paper, 'A medical case' by Giuseppe Benvenuti
28 - Letter, 'On comparitive language' from Antoine Gebelin to James Hutton
29 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Plymouth, 1767' by William Farr
30 - Paper, 'A new instrument, the dendrometer, for measuring heights, distances and angles' by John Duncombe
31 - Letter, 'Inoculation in Arabia' from Patrick Russell to Alexander Russell
32 - Letter, 'Of the winter in Warsaw' from N M Wolfe to Henry Baker
33 - Letter, 'Of the winter in Stockholm' from Peter William Wargentin to Nevil Maskelyne
34 - Paper, 'Introduction to Smeaton's papers no 35 and 36' by Nevil Maskelyne
35 - Paper, 'Of the menstrual parallax' by John Smeaton
36 - Paper, 'A new method of observing the heavenly bodies out of the meridan' by John Smeaton
37 - Paper, 'Two medical observations' by Giuseppe Benvenuti
38 - Paper, 'A new method of comparing curvilineal areas' by John Landen
39 - Paper, 'Preparation of animal tissues for study' by Joseph Reverdit
40 - Paper, 'Of a case of sleeping fits of long duration' by Maynard
41 - Paper, 'Of a chameleon' by James Parsons
42 - Paper, 'Regulations for the institution of an academy at Warsaw', on behalf of Stanislaw August Poniatowski, King of Poland
43 - Letter, 'Of a Punic coin from Gozo; of an inedited Punic coin' from John Swinton to Matthew Maty
44 - Letter, 'Of Mr Miller's experiments on sowing wheat' from William Watson to the Royal Society
45 - Paper, 'On the theory of cirulating decimal fractions' by John Robertson
46 - Paper, 'List of 50 plants (2251-2300) from Chelsea Garden' by William Hudson
47 - Paper, 'Account of observations made by Mason and Dixon for determining a degree of latitude in the province of Maryland' by Nevil Maskelyne
48 - Paper, 'Account of a new map of the River Volga' by Johann Reinhold Forster to Matthew Maty
49 - Letter, 'Of the lymphatic system in birds' from William Hewson to William Hunter
50 - Letter, 'Of the heat in Rome August 1768' from James Byres to Matthew Maty
51 - Paper, 'Observations on Manchester waters' by Thomas Percival
52 - Letter, 'Of an Etruscan coin of Paestum; of a denarius of the Veturian family' from John Swinton
53 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made in the forks of the River Brandiwine, as to the local effect of gravity on the going of a clock sent out by the Royal Society' by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
54 - Letter, 'Of astronomical observations at Ewetzingen in 1767-8' from Christian Mayer to Charles Morton and James Douglas
55 - Paper, 'An easy method of making a phosphorus that will imbibe and emit light' by John Canton
56 - Paper, 'Of a blue substance found in a peat-moss, 12 miles from Aberdeen' by Sylvester Douglas
57 - Paper, 'Observations for determining the length of a degree of latitude in Maryland and Pennsylvania' by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
58 - List, 'Of the 53 papers reading during 1768 and of 8 papers missing'
59 - Letter, 'Weather at Totnes' from Edward Spry to Charles Morton
60 - Letter, 'On telescopes' from Leonhard Euler to the Royal Society
61 - Paper, 'On one of the laws of the resistance of fluids' by Etienne Francois Dutour
62 - Letter, 'Of a new method of preparing salep' from J Moult to Thomas Percival
63 - Paper, 'Of some caustic parabolic speclums, prepared at Dresden by the late M Hoesen' by N M Wolfe
64 - Paper, 'Stating that 4 years ago he has injected the lacteals of a tortoise with mercury' by Alexander Monro
65 - Letter, 'The writer claims priority over Dr Monro, as having injected the lacteals of a tortoise 5 years ago' from William Hewson to Matthew Maty
Expand 66 - Paper, 'Of an instrument for showing the places of the sun and moon, and the times of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites' by James Ferguson66 - Paper, 'Of an instrument for showing the places of the sun and moon, and the times of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites' by James Ferguson
67 - Letter, 'Of the analogy between the Greek, Hebrew and Latin tongues' from Gebelin to James Hutton
68 - Paper, 'Of pins swallowed and discharged at the shoulder' by Daniel Lysons
69 - Letter, 'Of selling smallpox' from Robert Rymer to Daines Barrington
70 - Paper, 'Of M de Charniere's megameter' by unknown author
71 - Letter, 'Of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty
72 - Letter, 'On trees supposed to be indigenous to Great Britain (Oak, chestnut)' from Daines Barrington to William Watson
73 - Paper, 'A surgical case' by Charles White
74 - Letter, 'Origin of a natural paper' from John Strange to Matthew Maty
75 - Paper, 'A Dutch account of a smallpox epidemic at the Cape of Good Hope' by Tycho Hoffman
76 - Letters, 'On a specimen of native tin' from Henry Rosevarne and William Borlase to Charles Morton
77 - Letter, 'On ague' from Ham Stacey to James Douglas
77a - Sketch, unnamed [Celestial longitude and its effects] by unknown artist
78 - Paper, 'Experiments on the latent force of electriccal explosions' by Joseph Priestley
79 - Paper, 'Account of Roger Joseph Boscovich's dissertationes quinque as dioptricam pertinentes' by John Bevis
80 - Letter, 'Asks the advice of the Royal Society on the protection of the cathedral from the lightning' from the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral to James West
81 - Letter, 'Earthquake at Macao and account of monkeys without tails found in the interior part of Bengal' from Stephen De Visme to Henry Baker
82 - Letter, 'A high tide and bore on 21 January' from John Huxham to William Watson
83 - Letter, 'Of a death from lightning' from J Hinchcliffe to William Watson
84 - Paper, 'Demonstration of a law of motion in the case of a body deflected by two forces tending constantly to two fixed points' by John Robertson and John Jones
85 - Letter, 'Of the medicinal virtue of the bark of the wild cabbage tree of Jamaica' from Donald Monro to Matthew Maty
86 - Letter, 'Of interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphics' from James Stuart to Charles Morton
87 - Letter, 'Of nux vomica' from John Peter Wiel to the Royal Society
88 - Paper, 'Of Macao monkeys' by Sidney Swinney
89 - Paper, 'Meteorological register for 1768 at the Royal Hospital Plymouth' by William Farr
90 - Letter, 'Effect of a thunderstorm on the church of Buckland Brewer' from William Paxton to Jeremiah Milles
91 - Paper, 'Sketch of a work Sopra le riproduzioni animali [Above the animal reproductions]' by Lazzaro Spallanzani
92 - Letter, 'Of a plant lately discovered in the Isle of Skye' from John Hope to William Watson
93 - Letter, 'On the Irish language' from William Watkins to the Royal Society
94 - Paper, 'Dissertatio epistolaris de ossibus et dentibus elephantum [Dissertation about the bones and teeth of elephants] by Rudolf Eric Raspe
95 - Letter, 'Thanks for presenting his work to the Royal Society' from Lazzaro Spallanzani to Matthew Maty
96 - Paper, 'On animalcula in vegetable infusions' by John Ellis
97 - Paper, 'Of a remarkable Aurora borealis seen at Paris' by Charles Messier
98 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Ludgvan, 1768' by William Borlase
99 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Bridgwater' by Jeremiah Milles
100 - Letter, 'Of the computation of the Sun's distance from the earth by the theory of gravity' from Samuel Horsley to Matthew Maty
101 - Paper, 'On the last transit of Venus' from James Horsfall to James Burrow
102 - Letter, 'Of the late transit of Venus, with observations from Six, Ridout and Dean' from W D Brych to Charles Morton
103 - Letter, 'Of the late transit of Venus' from Samuel Dunn to Charles Morton
104 - Letter, 'On the transit of Venus' from Lionel Charlton to John Bevis
105 - Paper, 'An extra-uterine foetus' by John Dixon
106 - Paper, 'Report on preserving St Paul's Cathedral from the effects of lightning' by the Royal Society Committee
107 - Paper, 'The transit of Venus and the solar sclipse of 3 June' by Nevil Maskelyne
108 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus' by Thomas Hornsby
109 - Letter, 'Of the solar eclipse' from James Horsfell to the Royal Society
110 - Letter, 'Of the transit of Venus and the solar eclipse' from John Canton to Nevil Maskelyne
111 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus and solar eclipse, as observed at Kew' by John Bevis
112 - Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Horsley
113 - Letter, 'Of sepulchral inscriptions and carved figures discovered at Bonn in 1755' from John Strange to James West
114 - Paper, 'The lymphatic system in amphibious animals' from William Hewson to William Hunter
115 - Letter, 'Update on Endeavour voyage' from James Cook to Charles Morton
116 - Letter, 'Update on Endeavour voyage' from Charles Green to the Royal Society
117 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations in the northern districts of North America' by Samuel Holland
118 - Paper, 'Observations at Hammerfost' by Jeremiah Dixon
119 - Letter, 'Astronomical observations near Quebec' from Thomas Wright to Nevil Maskelyne
Expand 120 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus' by William Hirst120 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus' by William Hirst
121 - Paper, 'Of the transit of Venus as observed at Norton near Leicester' by William Ludlam
122 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made at Hammerfest for the Royal Society' by Jeremiah Dixon
Expand 123 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made a North Cape for the Royal Society' by W Bayley 123 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made a North Cape for the Royal Society' by W Bayley
124 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made for the Royal Society at Prince of Wales Fort, on the north west coast of Hudson Bay' by William Wales and Joseph Dymond
125 - Letter, 'The case of a cuticular glove' from B Gooch to Joseph Warner
126 - Paper, 'The lymphatic system in fish' by William Hewson
127 - Paper, 'Observatio ingressus Veneria in solem die 3 Junii 1769' by Anders Mayer
128 - Paper, 'Observation of the solar eclipse of 4 June 1769 near Leeds' by John Smeaton
129 - Letter, 'The solubility of iron in simple water by the intervention of fixed air' from Timothy Lane to Henry Cavendish
130 - Letter, 'A refracting telescope fitted for use as a microscope' from Thomas Short to the Royal Society
131 - Letter, 'Of rheum palmatum in bloom' from James Inglish to the Royal Society
132 - Letter, 'Of optical matters' from J H Magalhaens to Nevil Maskelyne
133 - Letter, 'Of the transit of Venus' from Joseph Jerome le Francois de Lalande to Nevil Maskelyne
134 - Letter, 'Transit of Venus observed at Stockholm' from Benedict Ferner to Nevil Maskelyne
135 - Letter, 'Of an oil sent from North Carolina by George Brownrigg' from William Watson to the Royal Society
Expand 136 - Paper, 'Of the lymphatics of the urethra and the head of a bladder' by Henry Watson136 - Paper, 'Of the lymphatics of the urethra and the head of a bladder' by Henry Watson
137 - Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden for the year 1768' by William Hudson
138 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations for 1767' by Charles Messier
139 - Paper, 'Luminouness of the sea' by John Canton
140 - Letter, 'Of certain poisonous herbs' from de Norte to the Royal Society
141 - Letter, 'The transit of Mercury' from John Winthrop to Nathaniel Bliss
142 - Paper, 'Of Mr Tuberville Needham's conjecture as to the connexion between Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Chinese charters' by Charles Morton
143 - Plates, various figures and drawings by John Swinton and Francis Wollaston
144 - List, 'Papers read before the Royal Society in 1769'
145 - Paper, 'Account of his method of taking impressions by means of the tartareous particles of certain sources of water in Tuscany' by Leonardo de Vegni
146 - Letter, 'Of the Patagonians; written on board the the Swallow at Fort Famine' from Philip Carteret
147 - Paper, 'Of a method of working the object-glasses of refracting telescopes' by James Short
148 - Letter, 'A journey to Mount Etna' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty
149 - Letter, 'Of a camelopardis found about the Cape of Good Hope' from Philip Carteret to Matthew Maty
150 - Paper, 'Experiments in support of the author's views as to the uses of the ganglions of the nerves' by James Johnstone
151 - Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Musgrave
Collapse 152 - Paper, 'Of bones in the rock of Gibraltar' by John Boddington152 - Paper, 'Of bones in the rock of Gibraltar' by John Boddington
153 - Paper, 'Attempts to ascertain the temperature of the sea at great depths on the coasts of Lapland and Norway' by Charles Douglas
154 - Paper, 'De modo marmoris albi producedi [On the white marble produced]' by Rudolph Erich Raspe
155 - Letter, 'Of the supposed change in the Italian climate' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty
156 - Paper, 'Account of a remarkable young musician, Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart' by Daines Barrington
157 - Paper, 'The transit of Venus of 6 June 1761 and of 3 June 1769' by Samuel Dunn
158 - Letter, 'A medical case' from Rupert Gettliffe to Ferguson
159 - Letter, 'An improved wheel barometer' by Keane Fitzgerald to Charles Morton
160 - Letter, 'Of a boy who died of a gunshot wound' from Thomas Woolcombe to John Huxham
161 - Paper, 'The autumnal equinox ascertained' by William Rivet
162 - Paper, 'The weather at Prince of Wales Fort, Hudson Bay 1768-9' by J Dymond and William Wales
163 - Letter, 'Some rare British birds' from Daines Barrington to Charles Morton
164 - Letter, 'An account of some very perfect and uncommon specimens of Spongiae' from John Strange to James West
165 - Letter, 'On a method for preparing birds for preservation' from Thomas Davies to John Ellis
166 - Letter, 'On the appearance of lightning on a mainmast conductor' from Captain I L Winn to Benjamin Franklin
167 - Paper, 'Of lateral explosions in an electrical discharge' by Joseph Priestley
168 - Paper, 'Observations on charcoal' by Joseph Priestley
169 - Letter, 'Of the transit of Venus and the aberration of light' from John Winthrop to Benjamin Franklin
170 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations for 1769 at Bridgwater and Ludgvan' by Jeremial Milles and William Borlase
171 - Letter, 'Of the late transit of Venus' from Nathaniel Pigott to John Bevis
172 - Letter, 'On medical subjects' from Johann Peter Wiel to the Royal Society
173 - Letter, 'Of the manna tree and the tarantula' from Domenico Cirillo to William Watson
174 - Paper, 'Various notes on the transit of Venus as observed at Dinapoor 4 June 1769' communicated by the Court of Directors of the East India Company
175 - Paper, 'Of a machine for finding the roots of equations universally' by John Rowning
176 - Paper, 'Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions depending upon survivorship' by Richard Price
177 - Paper, 'Of the blunt headed cachalot' by James Robertson
178 - Paper, 'A case of lithotomy' by Planque et al
179 - Letter, 'Of the annual overflow of the Nile' from Thomas Gale to James West
180 - Letter, 'On the preservation of dead birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckhan
181 - Paper, 'Experiments and observations on various phenomena attending the solution of salts' by Richard Watson
182 - Letter, 'Occultation of the star Tauri by the Moon' from William Ludlam to Nevil Maskelyne
183 - Paper, 'Experiments on the blood' by William Hewson
184 - Letter, 'On the preservation of birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckahn to the Royal Society
185 - Letter, 'Astronomical observations' from J A Mallet to John Bevis
186 - Paper, 'To determine the lateral pressure of water' by unknown author
186a - Paper, 'Some new theorums for computing the areas of certain curve lines' by John Landen
187 - Letters, 'Extracts from various letters' from Alexander Rose to Patrick Murdoch
188 - Letter, 'Of an appearance like an aurora' from Edward King to the Royal Society
189 - Letters, 'On the preservation of birds' from Tesser Samuel Kuckahn to the Royal Society
190 - Paper, 'On the degree of heat which coagulates the lymph' by William Hewson
191 - Paper, 'The transit of Venus observed in California' by Vincent Doz
192 - Letter, 'Of certain medical cases' from John Latham to Joseph Warner
193 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made at Cavan for the Royal Society' by Charles Mason
194 - Paper, 'Of coagulable lymph and stopping haemorrhage' by William Hewson
195 - Paper, 'List of 50 plants from Chelsea Garden nos 2351 - 2400 for 1769' by William Hudson
196 - Letter, 'Twenty cases of compound interest' from John Robertson to James West
197 - Paper, 'Consideration of difficulties in the Newtonian theory of light' by Samuel Horsley
198 - Letter, 'Of a meteor seen at Oxford' from John Swinton to Matthew Maty
199 - Paper, 'Observations of the transit of Mercury at Norrington' by William Smith et al
200 - Paper, 'Observations of the immersions and emersions of Jupiter's first satellite at Funchal' by Thomas Heberden
201 - Letter, 'The transit of Venus observed at St Domingo' from Alexandre Gui Pingre to Nevil Maskelyne
202 - List, 'Papers read during 1770'
203 - Letters, 'On a new species of illicum linnæi, or starry aniseed tree, lately discovered in West Florida' from John Ellis to William Aiton
203a - Letter, 'The figure and character of that elegant American evergreen called by the gardeners the Loblolly Bay' from John Elllis to Carl Linnaeus
204 - Letter, 'Of the Abbe Chappe's observations on the transits and of his death' from Charles Messier to John Hyacinth de Magellan
205 - Letter, 'Observation of the transit of Mercury, giving times observed by J Winthrop' from Benjamin Franklin to Nevil Maskelyne
206 - Letter, 'Of the soil of Naples and the neighbourhood' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty
207 - Letter, 'Of a bird from the East Indies' from George Edwards to James West
208 - Paper, 'Observations on the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius' by John Howard
209 - Letter, 'Of a new comet' from Charles Messier to J H Magalhaens
210 - Paper, 'Register of Holycross, Salop, from Michaelmas 1760 to Michaelmas 1770' by William Gorsuch
211 - Letter, 'About his late father's papers' from John Corham Huxham to the Royal Society
212 - Paper, 'Of the desirability of Navy surgeons testing the herbs of the countries they visit' by William Draper
213 - Letter, 'Of the manner in which the Chinese heat their rooms' by Stephen de Vismes and Gramont to Matthew Maty
214 - Letter, 'Of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty
215 - Letter, 'Of the effects of a thunderstorm on St Kevern's church' from Anthony Williams to William Borlase
216 - Paper, 'Of a new equatoreal telescope' by Edward Nairne
217 - Letter, 'Of the weather at Plymouth' from John Corham Huxham to Charles Morton
218 - Paper, 'The nature of aurum mossaicum' by Peter Woulfe
219 - Letter, 'Of a supposed hermaphrodite' from Watson to the Royal Society
220 - Paper, 'Of a new hygrometer' by John Smeaton
221 - Paper, 'Of an extraordinary steatomous abdomical tumour' by P Hanly
222 - Paper, 'Account of Elden Hole in Derbyshire, with observations thereon by E King' by John Lloyd and Edward King
223 - Paper, 'The nyl-gau, an Indian animal' by William Hunter
224 - Letter, 'On chestnut trees' from Andrew Coltee Ducarel to William Watson
225 - Letter, 'On chestnut trees' from Daines Barrington to Matthew Maty
226 - Paper, 'Of the aphides of Linnaeus' by William Richardson
227 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Ludvagan, 1770' by William Borlase
228 - Letter, 'Experiments with the new phosphorus' from Giovanni Battista Beccaria to John Canton
229 - Letter, 'Of the cold in Cambridge' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty
230 - Letter, 'Concerning the new comet' from J H Magalhaens to Matthew Maty
231 - Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Lyndon, Rutland' from Thomas Barker to James West
232 - Paper, 'On some bivalve insects near Copenhagen' by O F Muller
233 - Letter, 'Of an epidemic in Hanover' from F E Wichmann to the Royal Society
234 - Letter, 'Description of two new tortoises' from Thomas Pennant to Mathew Maty
235 - Letter, 'Of Mr Wirz's machine for raising water' from R Valltravers to Matthew Maty
236 - Paper, 'Of Nyctanthes elongata' by Peter Jonas Bergius
237 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Caen in the years 1765-69' by Nathaniel Piggott
238 - Letter, 'Of a newly-discovered fish from the South Seas' from Michael Tyson to Michael Lort
239 - Paper, 'Observations on the comet of 1769 and on the remarkable appearances in the heavens in Oct and Nov of the same year' by Edward King
240 - Paper, 'A new mole from North America' by Daines Barrington
241 - Paper, 'Extracts from his journals, beginning 9 November 1770' by James Cook
242 - Letter, 'Descriptions of specimens of soils and rocks sent (with paper) from Naples and neighbourhood' by William Hamilton
243 - Paper, 'Of the falling of rain (at different heights)' by Marshall
244 - Paper, 'Experiments made in North Wales to learn the quantities of rain falling at different heights' by Daines Barrington
245 - Letter, 'Of a lightning conductor fixed on the steeple of Trinity Church, Chester' from John Haygarth
246 - Paper, 'On fluents and assignable by arcs of conic sections' by John Landen
247 - Letter, 'Of the height of his rain gauge' from Thomas Barker to James West
248 - Letter, 'Of the management of carps in Polish Russia' from Johann Reinhold Forster to Daines Barrington
249 - Letter, 'Elements of the recent comet' from Charles Messier to J H de Magelhaens
250 - Paper, 'Plan of a new observatory at Geneva' by Frederic Mallet
251 - Letter, 'Of a remarkable cold at Glasgow' from Alexander Wilson to Nevil Maskelyne
252 - Paper, 'Some experiments on putrefaction' by Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell
253 - Letter, 'Of some plants indigenous to several parts of England' from Richard Hill Waring to Daines Barrington
254 - Paper, 'List of the 50 plants from Chelsea Garden for 1770, nos 2410-2450' by Stanesby Alchorne
255 - Paper, 'An enquiry into the value of the ancient Greek and Roman money' by Matthew Raper
256 - Paper, 'Transits of Venus and Mercury, 4 June and 10 November 1769, observed at Batavia [Jakarta, Indonesia]' by Johan Maurits Mohr
257 - Paper, 'Observations made at King George Island, in the South Seas' by Charles Green and James Cook
258 - Letter, 'Of a hard vein (quartz) in Pelletstown, Ireland' from Thomas Wilkes to
259 - Paper, 'Experiments and observations on the Colombo root' by Thomas Percival
260 - Paper, 'Problems of a crust of spherical particles covering a surface' by Samuel Horsley
261 - Paper, 'Of Solway moss' by unknown author
262 - Paper, 'Of the going of an astronomical clock' by Francis Wollaston
263 - Paper, 'Of natron from Tripoli' by Donald Monro
264 - Paper, 'An attempt to explain some of the principal phenomena of electricity by means of an elastic sluid' by Henry Cavendish
265 - Letter, 'Configuration in a bottle' from James Ferguson to Matthew Maty
266 - Letter, 'Account of an uncommon bird from Malacca' from James Badenach to Matthew Maty
267 - Letter, 'The late eruption of Solway Moss' from Clarke to the Royal Society
268 - Letter, 'Of specific characters which distinguish the rabbit from the hare' from Daines Barrington to Samuel Wegg
269 - Paper, 'The preparation of essential oil of roses' by Daines Barrington
270 - Letter, 'On the body of Sir Reginald Bray, K.G., exhumed in Bury chapel, Windsor (in a suit of armour, temp Henry VII)' from John Corham Huxham
271 - Paper, 'An account of the sulphureous mineral water of Castle Leod & Fairbairn, Ross-shire and Pikeathly' by Donald Monro
272 - Letter, 'On the explosion of the Hounslow powder-mills' from J Hawkeens to John Yorke
273 - Letter, 'A curious medical case' from Thomas Henry to Thomas Percival
274 - Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Portsmouth' from Captain Wallis to George Witchell
275 - Letter, 'The transit of Venus' from J Lorimerto the Royal Society
276 - Letter, 'Of the irruption of Solway Moss' from John Walter to James Stuart
277 - Letter, 'Meteorological observations at Lyndon, 1771' from T Barker to James West
278 - Letter, 'Celestial phenomena' from John Hyacinth de Magellan to Matthew Maty
279 - Paper, 'Directions for using the common micrometer' by James Bradley
280 - Paper, 'An attempt to explain why it is so much warmer in Europe than in America in the same degrees of north latitude' by George Edwards
281 - Paper, 'The moon does not spin' by William Gardiner
282 - Letter, 'On roots used by the Indians near Hudsons Bay to dye porcupine quilla' from Johann Reinhold Forster to William Watson
283 - Paper, 'The Sun's parallax deduced from obsevations of the recent transit of Venus' by Anders Johann Lexell
284 - Paper, 'Observations on different types of air' by Joseph Priestley
285 - Paper, 'Proof that no oil of vitriol is present in water impregnated with fixed air from chalk' by William Hey
286 - Letter, 'Titles of papers read before the Swedish Acadmey of Sciences between July 1770 and June 1771' from Peter Wargentin to John Ellicott
287 - Paper, 'Intestinal concretions from a horse' by John Dickins
288 - Letter, 'Observations during a voyage to Mocha; a new chart of the Red Sea' from Charles Newland to Nevil Maskelyne
289 - Letter, 'Additions and alterations to Hadley's quadrant' from Peter Dollond to Nevil Maskelyne
290 - Paper, 'Sending a bird from Gilbert White for the Royal Society' by Daines Barrington
291 - Letter, 'Concerning the evacuation of vessels; a hydraulic disquisition' from Charles Wildbore to the Royal Society
292 - Letter, 'An account of a new and singular species of oak' from John Zephaniah Holwell
293 - Paper, 'Of the migration of birds' by Daines Barrington
294 - Paper, 'Of a death by lightning in Tottenham Court Road chapel' by William Henley
295 - Letter, 'On electrical phenomena' from Thomas Ronayne to Benjamin Franklin
296 - Letter, 'A criticism of Charles Wildbore's paper' from Samuel Horsley to the Royal Society
297 - Paper, 'The sieve of Erathosthenes - his method of finding prime numbers' by Samuel Horsley
298 - Letter, 'A sketch of the signs of the zodiac found in a pagoda near Cape Cormorin in India' from John Call to Nevil Maskelyne
299 - Letter, 'On the effects of elder in preserving growing plants from insects' from Christopher Gullett to Matthew Maty
300 - Paper, 'Of some quadrupeds from Hudsons Bay' by Johann Reinhold Forster
301 - Letter, 'An account of the flowing of tides in the South Sea, observed from the bark Endeavour' from James Cook to Nevil Maskelyne
302 - Paper, 'The dip of the magnetic needle' by Robert Waddington
303 - Paper, 'Supplement to RR/5/297, being extracts from Nicomahus and Boethius' by Samuel Horsley
304 - Letter, 'Of a new electrometer by William Henley; and of several experiments made by him' from Joseph Priestley to Benjamin Franklin
305 - Paper, 'Meteorological observations at Ludgvan for 1771' by William Borlase
306 - Paper, 'Remarks on Hadley's quadrant' by Nevil Maskelyne
307 - Paper, 'Geometrical solutions of two celebrated astronomical problems' by Henry Pemberton
308 - Paper, 'Description of birds sent from Hudsons Bay' by Johann Reinhold Forster
309 - Letter, 'Of a thunderstorm near Aix en Provence and of the rainfall there in April 1771' from George Greville to the Royal Society
310 - Paper, 'Of the digestion of the stomach after death' by John Hunter
311 - Paper, 'Concerning a recommendation to him from the Royal Society Council on his setting out on a South Polar expedition' by Johann Reinhold Forster
312 - Letter, 'Of the well-preserved body of Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, uncle of Henry V, round at St Edmundsbury' from Charles Collignon
313 - Paper, 'Experiments and observations on Buxton water' by Thomas Percival
314 - Letter, 'Of the medical effects of a poisonous plant' from Richard Pulteney to William Watson
315 - Paper, 'Of making insinglass in Russia' by Humphry Jackson
316 - Letter, 'Of the cavern in Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny' from Adam Walker to Charles Morton
317 - Paper, 'Catalogue of the 50 plants 2451-2500, from Chelsea, for 1771' by Stanseby Alchorne
318 - Letter, 'Some electrical experiments made with charcoal' by Ebenezer Kinnersley
319 - Letter, 'Electrical experiments and phenomena' from William Hunter to the Royal Society
320 - Letter, 'Experiment with a black-bulb thermometer' from Richard Watson to Matthew Maty
321 - Letter, 'Fixed air in malignant fevers' from Thomas Percival to the Royal Society
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323 - Paper, 'A new construction of the sea-quandrant' by John Hyacinth de Magellan
324 - Letter, 'Of certain chestnut-woods in Kent - controversy with Daines Barrington' from John Thorpe to Matthew Maty
325 - Letter, 'On the early cultivation of botany in England, with some particulars of John Tradescant' from Andrew Coltee Ducarel to William Watson
326 - Paper, 'Astronomical observations made at Chislehurst' by Francis Wollaston
327 - Letter, 'Of chestnut woods in Kent' from Daines Barrington to the Royal Society
328 - Letter, 'On a solar iris and an Aurora borealis' from John Swinton to the Royal Society
329 - Paper, 'De intenso frigore [The intense cold]' by J H van Swinden
330 - List, 'Papers presented to the Royal Society in 1772, distinguishing between those printed and those not printed'
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Collection highlights

Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

The Royal Society

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oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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