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1 - Some extracts from Council Minutes, 1663-1776
2 - Undated rough Council Minutes
3 - Rough copy from the minutes of a meeting of the Royal Society, 27 November 1776
4 - Rough copy from the minutes of a meeting of the Royal Society, 9 April 1778
5 - Anonymous memorandum on magnetic and meteorological observations
6 - Draft of a letter from the Royal Society to the Admiralty
7 - Letter from William P Jones, Philadelphia, to the Royal Society
8 - 'La quadrature du cercle' ('Squaring the circle'), by E Freytag
9 - 'Note on the Pearl Fishing Enquiry'
10 - Letter from C R Weld, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to the Council of the Royal Society
11 - Draft of instrument authorising the sale by the Royal Society of "the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds three pounds per cent consolidated Bank Amenities"
12 - 'Valuation of Freehold Property in Sheffield belonging to the Duke of Norfolk and offered as a Security for an advance of £12000 on mortgage at 3 1/2 per cent', by F Fowler
13 - Copy of the 'Report of the Committee appointed to visit and inspect the landed estates of the Society and to report on the rentals and present value of the same'
14 - List of Royal Society Fellows titled 'List of members who have compounded'
15 - Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. A
16 - 'Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. B'
17 - Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. C
18 - Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. D
19 - Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. E
20 - Paper relating to the question of fee reduction. F
21 - Instrument by Joseph Banks appointing George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, Deputy President of the Royal Society
22 - Instrument by Joseph Banks appointing Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Deputy President of the Royal Society
23 - Instrument by Joseph Banks appointing Sir William Hamilton, Deputy President of the Royal Society
24 - 'A Liste of the Engagements, made by Several Members of the Royal Society, for contributing to the building of a College upon the Ground near Arundel-house...'
25 - 'Subscriptions towards building a College'
26 - Draft of the Petition of the Royal Society for the grant by Charles II of Chelsea College and lands
27 - 'Report of Warren De La Rue FRS on the proposal to remount the Object Glass of Huyghens'
28 - Some notes about the Norfolk Library
29 - Some notes about the Norfolk Library
30 - 'Outline of a Report on the Miscellaneous Literature in the Library of the Royal Society', by Charles Tomlinson
31 - Notes by Edward Sabine and C R Weld on the standard weights and measures
32 - Duplicate receipt for, and schedule of, the standard weights and measures, by Edward Sabine and C R Weld
33 - Note about the inspection of the Royal Society standards of weight and length on 11 February 1864
34 - Letter from the Treasury to the William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society
35 - Letter from the Treasury to the William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society
36 - Barometer comparisons made by the Royal Society
37 - Barometer comparisons made by the Royal Society
38 - Barometer comparisons made by the Royal Society
39 - Barometer comparisons made by the Royal Society
40 - Report of the Meteorological Log Committee
41 - Notes from the minutes of meetings of the Purfleet Magazine Committee
42 - Titled 'Greenwich Observations'
43 - Note of a meeting concerning a William Spottiswoode memorial
44 - Memorandum about the Hudson's Bay Company and the Magnetic Survey of North America
45 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwoch, to Sir J W Lubbock
46 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Lord Northampton
47 - 'Answers to the Circular issued to Foreign Members'
48 - Extract from the Will of Henry Baker
49 - Letter from James Caird, Dundee, to Sir Archibald Geikie
50 - Memorandum proposing the setting-up of a body that would become the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)
51 - Letter from the Henry M Vane, Charity Commission, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
52 - Letter from the Henry M Vane, Charity Commission, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
53 - Order for the transfer of funds from the Charity Commission to the Royal Society
54 - Letter from Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, London, to Sir Joseph Banks
55 - Minutes of the Rumford Medal Committee
56 - Minutes of the Rumford Medal Committee
57 - Copy of the probate of the Will of Godfrey Copley
58 - Copy of the probate of the Will of Godfrey Copley
59 - Rules for the performance of the annual experiment to be made under the terms of the Copley Bequest
60 - Letter from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to Sir Edward Sabine
61 - Letter from William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to Sir Edward Sabine
62 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Lord Rosse
63 - Some notes about the Pearl Fishery papers
64 - Letter from JH Poynting, Birmingham, to the Royal Society
65 - 'Report on Experiment to determine the Mean Density of the Earth by the ordinary balance', by JH Poynting
66 - Anonymous note titled, 'Therome, Le rapport de 25 a 8...est le veritable rapport de la circonference du cercle au diametre'
67 - 'Perpetual motion', by W F Stevenson
68 - 'Observations on the Survey of the Thames made by AJ Lloyd Esqre from London Bridge to the Sea'
69 - 'An account of the Magnetical Experiments made on the Western Coast of Africa 1830', by Edward Belcher
70 - Squaring the circle, by W McCormick
71 - 'On the Contents of Solids', by John Walsh
72 - Some slips of paper, evidently additions or corrections to a paper by Marshall Hall
73 - Letter on longitude, by Thomas Johnstone
74 - 'On the Constitution of Pigotite, and on the Mudesous and Mudesic Acid', by James FW Johnston
75 - 'On the Interaction of Linear Differential Equations', by B Bronwin
76 - 'On the power of Amalgams to conduct Heat', FC Calvert & R Johnson
77 - Propositions upon arithmetical progressions, by F Elefanty
78 - 'Sur les proprietes electriques des corps isolants. Memoire de Carlo Matteucci (extrait)
79 - 'On the Curvature of the Indian Arc of Meridian', by JH Pratt
80 - 'Notice of the Royal Charter Storm in October 1859'
81 - An addendum or supplement of some sort to MM/11/80 ('Notice of the Royal Charter Storm in October 1859')
82 - 'Note on the "Calculus of Chemical Operation"', by Prof Williamson
83 - Reports of an eclipse of the Sun on 18 August 1868, from the masters of three ships of the P & O Company
84 - 'Addendum...to the Revd S J Perry's Report', by E Walter Maunder
85 - Remarks on an amethyst 'looted from the treasure of the Temple of the God Indra at Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny', by Edward Heron-Allen
86 - 'Report of the Assistant Secretary relative to the Hall Porter and his Duties' by C R Weld
87 - Extract from the minutes of the Council of the Royal Society of 18 June 1840, calling for the establishment of a magnetical and meteorological observatory "in the neighbourhood of London", signed J W Lubbock
88 - "Extract from a note made by G B Airy immediately after the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society on July 9 or 10 1840"
89 - "Extract of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 11 August 1840, sanctioning the Magnetic Establishment and limiting its duration"
90 - "Total Annual Expense of the Magnetic & Meteorological Establishment connected with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich"
91 - A List of Chinese books, by A Walker
92 - 'The Memorial of Lieutenant Thomas EL Moore, late in command of Her Majesty's hired Barque 'Pagoda', on a voyage of Magnetic Observation in the South Polar Seas', by Thomas EL Moore
93 - Report by the Charter Committee of the Royal Society
94 - Papers endorsed 'Motion in Council June 1846', from the Charter Committee
95 - 'Second Report of the Charter Committee, agreed upon at their Meeting held on the 25 November 1846'
96 - Correspondence arising from a letter from the Society of Antiquaries to the Office of Works on the cleaning of Somerset House
97 - Specification of painting work to be done at the Society's apartments in Somerset House
98 - Draft of a recommendation from the President and Council of the Royal Society to the Government to reimburse the Hudson's Bay Company for any expenses they may have incurred during the Magnetic Survey in the "British Posessions in North America"
99 - 'List of Stations and Objects observed by General Roy with the Great Instrument in 1787-8'
100 - Endorsed 'List of Fellows who voted at the Anniversary 1848'
101 - Simultaneous readings of two barometers by James Glaisher
102 - Copy from the minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society
103 - 'Statement addressed to the President and Council of the Royal Society', by Thomas Wharton Jones
104 - 'To divide an angle into three equal parts', by Sylvester O'Sullivan
105 - Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Irish Academy
106 - Resolutions adopted at the New Haven meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
107 - Schedule of property at Acton belonging to the Royal Society proposed to be compulsorily acquired for the North & South-Western Junction Railway
108 - This number omitted when numbering the manuscripts for this volume
109 - This number omitted when numbering the manuscripts for this volume
110 - This number omitted when numbering the manuscripts for this volume
111 - This number omitted when numbering the manuscripts for this volume
112 - Letter from Francis Galton, Athenaeum
113 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Colinton, to Sir Archibald Geikie
114 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Banavie, to Sir Archibald Geikie
115 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Caledonian Canal, to Sir Archibald Geikie
116 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Westal, Cheltenham, to Sir Archibald Geikie
117 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Edinburgh, to Sir Archibald Geikie
118 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Westal, to Sir Archibald Geikie
119 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Westal, to Sir Archibald Geikie
120 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, St Ives, to Sir Archibald Geikie
121 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, St Ives, to Sir Archibald Geikie
122 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Westal, to Sir Archibald Geikie
123 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Westal, to Sir Archibald Geikie
124 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Brooklyn, Grantown-On-Spey, to Sir Archibald Geikie
125 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Brooklyn, Grantown-On-Spey, to Sir Archibald Geikie
126 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Brooklyn, Grantown-On-Spey, to Sir Archibald Geikie
127 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Brooklyn, Grantown-On-Spey, to Sir Archibald Geikie
128 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Cortachy, Kirriemuir, to Sir Archibald Geikie
129 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Cortachy, Kirriemuir, to Sir Archibald Geikie
130 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Cortachy, Kirriemuir, to Sir Archibald Geikie
131 - Letter from Edward A Wilson, Cortachy, Kirriemuir, to Sir Archibald Geikie
132 - Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine
133 - Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine
134 - Letter from Sir Edward Sabine
135 - Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine
136 - Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine
137 - Letter from Francis Grant to Sir Edward Sabine
138 - Letter from Sir Edward Sabine to Francis Grant
139 - Letter from WC Bond, Boston, Massachusetts, to J F W Herschel
140 - Letter from Martyn Roberts, St James's Street, to Sir James Clerk Ross
141 - Letter from James Apjohn, Knock
142 - Letter from Steinheil, Munich, to J F W Herschel
143 - Letter from Captain HD Trotter to P M Roget
144 - Letter from J W Lubbock to J F W Herschel
145 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich Observatory, to Lord Northampton
146 - Letter from J W Lubbock to JD Roberton, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society
147 - Copy letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to John William Lubbock, dated at Collingwood
148 - Copy of a letter from Lieutenant Yule, Bengal Engineers, Aden, to the East India Company
149 - 'Proceedings of the Committee assembled...to inspect and report upon such magnetical Instruments as may be laid before them by Lieutenant Yule, Bengal Engineers'
150 - Letter from Edward Sabine, London, to Col WH Sykes
151 - Letter from East India Company, East India House, to Lord Northampton
152 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to C Wheatsone
153 - 'Circular to the Magnetic Observations' by from Humphrey Lloyd
154 - Letter from Luke Howard, Tottenham, to W.H. Sykes
155 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood
156 - Letter from Admiralty to the Secretary of the Royal Society
157 - Letter from the Rev W C Cotton, Oxford and Cambridge Club, to Peter Mark Roget
158 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood
159 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Tonbridge
160 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J F W Herschel
161 - Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine
162 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel
163 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J F W Herschel
164 - Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel
165 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel
166 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood
167 - Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel
168 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to J W Lubbock
169 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel
170 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel
171 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to the Physical Committee
172 - Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to J F W Herschel
173 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood
174 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine
175 - Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy
176 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to E Sabine
177 - Letter from Edward Sabine, 12 Park Place, to G B Airy
177A - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory, to Edward Sabine
178 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy
179 - Letter from AT Kupffer, St Petersburg, to Edward Sabine
180 - Letter from F Lamont, Munich, to Edward Sabine
181 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J W Lubbock
182 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to G B Airy
183 - Letter from F Lamont, Munich, to Edward Sabine
184 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to J F W Herschel
185 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to J F W Herschel
186 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to J F W Herschel
187 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to J F W Herschel
188 - Copy of a letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to E Sabine
189 - Report of a subcommittee of the Physical Committee on the use to which the building 'formerly occupied by the Observatory at Kew' could be put, in case of its being offered to the Society
190 - Draft letter, signed by J F W Herschel, Charles Wheatstone and Edward Sabine, forwarding the report of the Joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal Society
191 - Draft of a letter from J F W Herschel to Edward Sabine
192 - Letter from J F W Herschel to Edward Sabine
193 - Letter from Humphrey Lloyd, Trinity College Dublin, to Edward Sabine
194 - Letter from Edward Sabine
195 - 'A memorandum on the subject of Pendulum Experiments, to be submitted to the joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal Society', by Edward Sabine
196 - 'Schedule of the documents referring to the purchase at Audouin's sale'
197 - List of lots, some with prices
198 - Letter from D Nutt, 158 Fleet Street, to W E Shuckard
199 - Another list of notes
200 - Letter from A Asher, Paris, to D Nutt
201 - Copy of a letter from J W Lubbock to D Nutt
202 - Letter from D Nutt, 168 Fleet Street, to W E Shuckard
203 - Letter from Brockhaus and Avenararius, Paris, to D Nutt
204 - Letter from Brockhaus and Avenararius, Paris, to D Nutt
205 - Letter from Brockhaus and Avenararius, Paris, to D Nutt (?)
206 - Letter from Brockhaus and Avenararius, Paris, to D Nutt
207 - Bill of loading in respect of a parcel of books
208 - Letter from Hippolyte Bailliere, 219 Regent Street, to JD Roberton
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