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1 - Copy of Resolution by the Council of the Royal Society, by P M Roget
2 - Copy of minute of meeting from the Catalogue Committee
3 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, Royal Society, to J W Lubbock
4 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Duke of Sussex
5 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Duke of Sussex
6 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, 2 Gower Street, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
7 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
8 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
9 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Richard Taylor
10 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to J W Lubbock
11 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, Royal Society, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
12 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
13 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to the Secretary of the Royal Society
14 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
15 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Panizzi
15A - Draft of letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Panizzi
16 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, 2 Compton Street East, to P M Roget
17 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Panizzi
18 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Pannizzi
19 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
20 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
21 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
22 - Copy of a letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Panizzi
23 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, J G Children
24 - Letter from J G Children, British Museum, to Francis Baily
25 - Copy of letter from J G Children, British Museum, to Anthony Panizzi
26 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to J G Children
27 - Copy of letter from J G Children, British Museum, to Anthony Panizzi
28 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to J G Children
29 - Letter from J G Children, British Museum, to P M Roget
30 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Duke of Sussex
31 - Summary of correspondence etc about Anthony Panizzi and the disputed catalogue, 1832-1834, by P M Roget
32 - Summary of the points in Panizzi's pamphlet 'A letter to HRH of the President of the Royal Society on the New Catalogue of that Institution now in the Press', by P M Roget
33 - Draft of a reply to Anthony Panizzi's pamphlet, by P M Roget
34 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to the Duke of Sussex
35 - Letter from Francis Baily to P M Roget
36 - 'Defence of the Resolution for omitting Mr Panizzi's Bibliographical Notes from the Catalogue of the Royal Society'
37 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Lord Northampton
38 - Letter from Lord Northampton, Castle Ashby, to J W Lubbock
39 - Letter from P M Roget, Royal Society, to Anthony Panizzi
40 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
41 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Lord Northampton
42 - Copy of letter from Lord Northampton, Castle Ashby, to Anthony Panizzi
43 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Lord Northampton
44 - Letter from C Pew to J W Lubbock
45 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Lord Northampton
46 - Copy of a letter from Lord Northampton, Castle Ashby, to Anthony Panizzi
47 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to Lord Northampton
48 - Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, to P M Roget
49 - Letter from C Pew to J W Lubbock
50 - Letter from C Pew, Covent Garden, to J W Lubbock
51 - Letter from P M Roget, Bernard Street, to Anthony Panizzi
52 - Letter from C Pew, Covent Garden, to J W Lubbock
53 - Letter from C Pew, Covent Garden, to JED Bethune
54 - Note by J W Lubbock on the arbitrator's (JED Bethune's) award to Anthony Panizzi, for Panizzi's work on the Royal Society's catalogue of scientific books
55 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
56 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
57 - Letter from JO Halliwell, 35 Bedford Place, to J W Lubbock
58 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
59 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
60 - Letter from JO Halliwell to J W Lubbock
61 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
62 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to P M Roget
63 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
64 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
65 - Letter from W E Shuckard, Royal Society Library, to J W Lubbock
66 - Letter from James Nasmyth, Bridgewater Foundry, to Lord Rosse
67 - Letter from Lord Rosse, Parsonstown, to Sir Edward Sabine
68 - Letter from Lord Rosse, Parsonstown, to Sir Edward Sabine
69 - Letter from David Brewster, St Andrews, to C R Weld
70 - Letter from Charles Piazzi Smyth, London, to W H Smyth
71 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Thomas Bell
72 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Lord Rosse
73 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Lord Rosse
74 - Letter from James Nasmyth, Manchester, to Lord Rosse
75 - Letter from William Lassell, Valletta, to Thomas Bell
76 - Letter from J W Lubbock to Thomas Bell
77 - Letter from J F W Herschel to Thomas Bell
78 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Thomas Bell
79 - Letter from EJ Cooper, Markree, to Thomas Bell
80 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Thomas Bell
81 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Thomas Bell
82 - Letter from TR Robinson, Armagh, to Lord Rosse
83 - Letter from Sir Edward Sabine, Woolwich, to Thomas Bell
84 - Drawing of a telescope by James Nasmyth
85 - Distribution list for the Southern Telescope correspondence
86 - Distribution list for the Southern Telescope correspondence
87 - Memorandum by JA Broun on the '4th and 5th heads of inquiry proposed by the Board of Trade'
88 - Report of the Standards Office Committee, signed by G B Airy, AR Clarke and George Gabriel Stokes
89 - Memorandum by Colonel AR Clarke on the Standards Office Apparatus
90 - 'Evidence relating to the Bottle exhibited in the Vestibule of Lloyd's'
91 - 'Evidence relating to the Bottle recieved from the Royal Society and exhibited in the Vestibule of Lloyd's'
92 - Extract from the Cape Observatory estimates for the financial year 1881-2, by David Gill
93 - Memorandum on the Cape Telescope, by David Gill
94 - Fair copy of a Memorandum on the Cape Telescope, by David Gill
95 - Copy of a letter from H Grubb to David Gill
96 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
97 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
98 - Letter from William Spottiswoode, Athenaeum, to Warren de la Rue
99 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
100 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue
101 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 73 Portland Place, to G B Airy
102 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue
103 - Copy of a letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to David Gill
104 - Copy of a letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to G B Airy
105 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
106 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
107 - 'Notes on proposed Equatorial for the Cape', by David Gill
108 - Letter from AW Ackermann, Cape Town, to David Gill
109 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
110 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
111 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
112 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to G B Airy
113 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 75 Portland Place, to William Spottiswoode
114 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 75 Portland Place, to William White
115 - Letter from W Spottiswoode, 41 Grosvenor Place, to W de la Rue
116 - Letter from Charles Pritchard to William White
117 - Letter from G B Airy, Playford near Ipswich, to Warren de la Rue
118 - Letter from JR Hind, Twickenham, to Warren de la Rue
119 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 73 Portland Place, William White
120 - Letter from Henry Bessemer, Denmark Hill, to Warren de la Rue
121 - Letter from the Duke of Devonshire, Devonshire House, to Warren de la Rue
122 - Copy of letter from Warren de la Rue, 73 Portland Place, to David Gill
123 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 73 Portland Place, to William Spottiswoode
124 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to Warren de la Rue
125 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Warren de la Rue
126 - Letter from Warren de la Rue to William White
127 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to Warren de la Rue
128 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to William Huggins
129 - Letter from David Gill, Cape Observatory, to the Admiralty
130 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to Warren de la Rue
131 - Letter from Howard Grubb, Dublin, to William Huggins
132 - Rough draft of a letter from Warren de la Rue to David Gill
133 - Letter from William Huggins, Athenaeum, to Warren de la Rue
134 - Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to Warren de la Rue
135 - 'An Account of Title Deeds belonging to the Royal Society of London delivered to Mr William Combes Kirkby their Solicitor on the Tenth Day of December 1767'
136 - 'An Account of Title Deeds belonging to the Royal Society of London delivered to Mr William Combes Kirkby their Solicitor on the Tenth Day of December 1767'
137 - 'Schedule of Deeds and papers relating to property belonging to the Royal Society'
138 - 'Schedule of Deeds and papers relating to property belonging to the Royal Society'
139 - 'Schedule of Deeds and papers relating to property belonging to the Royal Society'
140 - 'Schedule of Deeds and papers relating to property belonging to the Royal Society'
141 - 'Schedule of Deeds and papers relating to property belonging to the Royal Society'
142 - A list of the contents of the Iron Safe
143 - A list of the medals in the Treasurer's small Iron Chest
144 - A list of the standards held by the Society
145 - A note of the rent received from the Mablethorpe Estate, 1691-1720, by Joseph Banks
146 - Abstract of lease, of land on the Mablethorpe estate, from the Royal Society to Vincent & Henry Cross
147 - Valuation of Royal Society's Mablethorpe estate, by John Parkinson
148 - Two newspaper cuttings about a sea bank at Trusthorpe
149 - Resolution passed at a meeting of Mablethorpe landed proprietors, on the bulding of a sea wall at Trusthorpe
150 - Plan of the Royal Society's Mablethorpe estate dated 1814
151 - Resolution passed at a meeting of Mablethorpe landed proprietors concerning tithes
152 - A note about Mablethorpe tithes
153 - Letter from T Birkett, Cloak Lane, to the Royal Society
154 - Letter from William Allwright, Coleman Street, to the Royal Society
155 - Resolution passed at a meeting of Willesden landed proprietors
156 - Letter from Thomas Essex, Acton, to Sir Joseph Banks
157 - Draft petition to Parliament for leave to introduce an inclosure bill re the Willesden properties
158 - Report by Few & Co, Solicitors, into inclosures at Old Oak Common, Acton
159 - Report by Few & Co, Solicitors, into inclosures at Old Oak Common, Acton
160 - 'Royal Society Plan of Estate at Acton'
161 - 'Royal Society Plan of Estate at Acton'
162 - Cutting from the 'Acton Gazette' about new railways in Acton
163 - Report by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley on the Acton Estate Parsonage site
164 - Report by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley on land the North & South Western Junction Railway Company propose to purchase from the Royal Society in Acton, for the building of a passenger station
165 - Report by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley on the Royal Society's estate at South Acton
166 - Memorandum by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley of charges proposed for letting the Royal Society's South Acton estate for building purposes
167 - Report by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley to the Estates Committee of the Royal Society, concerning the Society's lands in South Acton
168 - Report by Daniel Smith Son & Oakley to the Estates Committee of the Royal Society, concerning work to be carried out on the Society's lands in South Acton
169 - 'Royal Society Plan of Estate at Acton'
170 - 'South Acton Estate'
171 - 'Plan of Acton Common Fields'
172 - Case that the Royal Society is not a Charity as contemplated by 43 Eliz cap 4 and is not affected by the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853
173 - Memorandum on the legal definition of a charity, with reference to the Royal Society's status
174 - Opinion from WHG Bagshawe on the charitable status of the Royal Society
175 - Draft clauses, by MJ Joyce, to protect the Society for inclusion in a Bill to amend the Charitable Trusts Acts
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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.

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