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1 - John Augustus Beaumont vs Emma Oliveira: Decretal order dated 16 December 1865
2 - John Augustus Beaumont vs Emma Oliveira: Report of a judgement given on 20 July 1868
3 - John Augustus Beaumont vs Emma Oliveira: Case and Counsel's opinion on the question of an appeal
4 - John Augustus Beaumont vs Emma Oliveira: Report of a judgement given on 21 January 1869
5 - Note by C R Weld on the Wintringham Bequest
6 - Report by the Finance Committee of the Royal Society on the Wintringham Bequest
7 - Minute of meeting of the Wintringham Bequest Committee
8 - Copy of the Will of Henry Dircks
9 - Dircks Bequest: instruction for a Bill, and Counsel's opinion
10 - Dircks Bequest: Royal Society vs Robinson, copy of Chief Clerk's certificate
11 - Dircks Bequest: Royal Society vs Robinson, proposed minute of decree
12 - Extract from the Will of Robert Keck
13 - Keck Bequest: case and Counsel's opinion
14 - Note of the Will of Thomas Fairchild
15 - Extract from the Will of Thomas Fairchild
16 - Extract from the Will of Thomas Fairchild
17 - Note from the Churchwardens of the Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, recommending Rev Hugh Hughes as Fairchild Lecturer
18 - Note from the Churchwardens of the Parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, recommending Hugh Hughes as Fairchild Lecturer
19 - Copy of application for an order of the Board of Charity Commissioners, authorising the transfer of Thomas Fairchild's New South Sea Stock
20 - Copy of application for an order of the Board of Charity Commissioners, authorising the transfer of Thomas Fairchild's New South Sea Stock
21 - Extract from the Will of Sir Humphry Davy
22 - Case and opinion "in the matter of the disposition of certain Plate by Sir Humphry Davy"
23 - Copy of the Will of Lady Sadleir
24 - Copy of the Will of Lady Sadleir
25 - Extract from the Will of Lady Sadleir
26 - Copy of the Will of Lady Sadleir
27 - Note about the property on Lambeth Hill, of which rent was paid to the Royal Society as part of the Lady Sadleir's Will
28 - Formal summons for a representative of the Royal Society to appear before a Court at Milan, in relation to Giralomo Ponti's intended bequest
29 - Formal summons for a representative of the Royal Society to appear before a Court at Milan, in relation to Giralomo Ponti's intended bequest
30 - The Royal Society's asking the opinion of their Counsel in relation to Giralomo Ponti's intended bequest to the Society
31 - Note on the Handley Bequest
32 - Extract from the Will of Edwin Hill Handley
33 - Copy of the Will of Edwin Hill Handley
34 - Counsel's opinion for the Royal Society on the case of Edwin Hill Handley's will
35 - Receipt for payment of legacy duty re the will of Edwin Hill Handley
36 - Note on the Stevenson bequest and the property involved
37 - Note on the Stevenson bequest and the property involved, titled 'Property between £70 & 90,000
38 - 'Particulars of the Stevenson bequest'
39 - Note on the Stevenson bequest and the property involved
40 - Report of a Royal Society Committee about the Stevenson Bequest
41 - Copy of the Will and codicils of W F Stevenson
42 - Counsel's opinion for the Royal Society on the case of W F Stevenson's will
43 - Stevenson Bequest; Ludlow vs Stevenson; judgement
44 - Receipt from Nevil Maskelyne for some apparatus, including an object case by Huyghens of 210 ft focal length, borrowed from the Royal Society
45 - "Instruments and Apparatus belonging to the Royal Society"
46 - "Instruments and Apparatus"
47 - A List of meteorological instruments "sent to Heath & Murray Jan 30/57"
48 - Copy of receipted papers given to Captain WJ Heaviside on his delivering over to Kew Observatory certain apparatus used in pendulum experiments in connection with the Trigonometrical Survey of India
49 - 'List of instruments for South Kensington'
50 - 'List of apparatus and instruments belonging to the Royal Society returned from Kew Observatory'
51 - 'List of apparatus and instruments belonging to the Royal Society not returned from Kew Observatory'
52 - 'List of instruments and apparatus belonging to the Royal Society returned from Kew Observatory'
53 - 'List of apparatus and instruments belonging to the Royal Society not returned from Kew Observatory'
54 - 'List of apparatus and instruments belonging to the Royal Society returned from Kew Observatory'
55 - List of apparatus and instruments belonging to the Royal Society not returned from Kew Observatory
56 - 'List of instruments in the Instrument Room'
57 - A list of instruments
58 - 'Plans of the Apartments of the Royal Society in Somerset Place and the Agreement relative thereto signed by the President & Council'
59 - 'The Commentaries on the 2 Conditions' as to the occupancy of Burlington House
60 - Minutes of a meeting of the Burlington House Committee
61 - Minutes of a meeting of the Removal Committee
62 - Minutes of a meeting of the Removal Committee
63 - Minutes of a meeting of the Officers of the Royal, Linnean and Chemical Societies
64 - Press cuttings reporting the debates in the House of Commons on the estimates for the conversion of Burlington House, on 12 and 19 June 1857
65 - "...statement of the accommodation deemed requisite for the Royal Society, in case of its removal into a new building"
66 - "The following is the accommodation that will be required by the Royal Society in a new building"
67 - Inventory of effects belonging to the Royal Society
68 - A schedule of the number and size of rooms required by the Royal Society in Burlington House
69 - A sketchplan on the number and size of rooms required by the Royal Society in Burlington House
70 - Extract from the lease for Burlington House, granted by the Commissioners of HM Works and Public Buildings to the Royal Academy of Arts
71 - Outline specification by Sydney Smirke of work to be done at Burlington House
72 - "Inventory of Articles belonging to the Royal Society in Store Closet on back Stairs, February 1869"
73 - Outline specification by Sydney Smirke of work to be done at Burlington House
74 - "Specification of Sundry works required to be done in internal Fittings for the Society", by Banks & Barry
75 - "Specification of Sundry works required to be done in internal Fittings for the Society", by Banks & Barry
76 - Statement of expenditure approved by the Council of the Royal Society for Furniture, Carpets, Meeting Room Seats, and Removal of Fittings, from the Society's rooms in Burlington House
77 - Rough specification for three Library tables for the Royal Society
78 - "Burlington House Bells"
79 - "Statement of unfinished Joinery and Fittings and Imperfections at the Royal Society, received from Mr Spottiswoode"
80 - 'Number of Students, and other Persons, who have passed through the Hall between 10am and 4pm from Thursday October 19th to Saturday October 23rd inclusive'
81 - Plan of Basement story of the Royal Society's apartments in Burlington House
82 - Plan of a floor of the Royal Society's apartments in Burlington House
83 - Plan of Ground Floor of the Royal Society's apartments in Burlington House
84 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
85 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
86 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
87 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
88 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
89 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
90 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
91 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
92 - Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee
93 - Committee of Papers
94 - Minutes of the Finance Committee Meeting
95 - Minutes of a meeting of the Excise Committee
96 - First report of the Excise Committee
97 - Second report of the Excise Committee
98 - Copies of reports by the Commissioners of Excise by TW Carr
99 - Letter from the Treasury to the Duke of Sussex, President of the Royal Society
100 - Copy of letter from Commissioners of Excise to the Treasury
101 - Letter from WH Christie, Secretary, Royal Society, to the Treasury
102 - Letter from the Royal Society, Somerset House, to the Treasury
103 - Letter from the Treasury to the Royal Society
104 - Letter from the Commissioners of Excise to the Royal Society
105 - Copy of memorial to the Commissioners of Excise by Alexander Allan
106 - Copy of letter from W Gutteridge, Budge Row, to the Commissioners of Excise
107 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Commissioners of Excise, to J W Lubbock
108 - Letter from Davies Gilbert, 27 Bower Street, to J W Lubbock
109 - Copy of letter from Davies Gilbert, 27 Bower Street, to J W Lubbock
110 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Commissioners of Excise, to J W Lubbock
111 - Letter from John Archer, Globe Road, Mile End, to the Commissioners of Excise
112 - "Particulars of some empty casks weighed in a dry state...", and afterwards when wet, by John Warters
113 - Memorandum on gauging casks
114 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, to J W Lubbock
115 - Letter from J Rouchetti, Hatton Garden, to Michael Faraday
116 - "Description of J Rouchetti's Glass or Platina Stem Hydrometer"
117 - Letter from RB Bate, Poultry, to the Royal Society
118 - 'Remarks upon the present system of ascertaining Quantity in Rolling Casks used in the conveyance of British Spirits in the Distilleries of the United Kingdom', by Henry Browning
119 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, to P M Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society
120 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, to P M Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society
121 - Letter from Benjamin Bate, 21 Poultry, to the Royal Society
122 - Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to the Royal Society
123 - Letter from Benjamin Bate, Kensington, to the Royal Society
124 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Royal Society, to P M Roget
125 - Letter from J W Lubbock to P M Roget
126 - Letter from William Tite, 42 Lowndes Square, to Edward Sabine
127 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, to J W Lubbock
128 - Letter from E Russell to J W Lubbock
129 - Letter from J W Lubbock to J Hudson
130 - Letter from Henry Browning to J W Lubbock
131 - Letter from Clayton Freeling, Excise Office
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