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1 - Sheets of notes by Michael Faraday, from a notebook headed 'Glass furnace note book Vol 2'
2 - Extracts from the minutes of the Optical Glass Committee subcommittee on experiments
3 - 'Estimate of Works proposed to be done for Dr Young at the Royal Institution Abermarle Street', by Joshua Ramsey
4 - Letter from J Marshall, Truro, to Davies Gilbert
5 - Letter from J Marshall, Truro, to Davies Gilbert
6 - Letter from Joshua Ramsey, on the cost of constructing furnaces for the use of the Optical Glass Committee
7 - Eight bills and receipts relating to the work of Optical Glass Committee
8 - Extracts from the minutes of the Philosophical Club, concerning the question of the juxtaposition of learned societies
9 - Extract from a minute of the Linnean Society Council
10 - Extract from the minutes of Grantham Town Council, on the erection of a monument to Sir Isaac Newton on Saint Peter's Hill
11 - 'Account of Expenses incurred for four Balloon Ascents described in Mr Welsh's report printed in the Philosophical Transactions of 1853', by J P Gassiot
12 - Report by WH Miller on a paper
13 - Memorandum from William Parsons, Lord Rosse
14 - Report from the Library Committee to the Council of the Royal Society
15 - Copies of letters from Few & Co, solicitors to the Royal Society, about the Handley Bequest
16 - 'Instructions for the Zoologist of the Zambesi Expedition' by Richard Owen
17 - 'Suggestions as to the appointment of a Botanist to Dr Livingstone's Expedition; with Instructions', by J D Hooker
18 - 'Zoological Instructions for the Naturalist of the Expedition to Vancouver's Island', by Richard Owen
19 - 'Memorandum of Suggestions' for the Vancouver Island Expedition by Edward Sabine
20 - Extract from a despatch from Kongone by David Livingstone
21 - Report on the Acton enclosures by William Tite and J P Gassiot
22 - 'Particulars of lease of land at Acton granted by the Royal Society to James Stephens of Turnham Green, Cowkeeper'
23 - A theory of geology, by Joseph Plimsoll
24 - 'The Treasurers Financial Report to the President and Council of the Royal Society', by Edward Sabine
25 - Printed circular about the establishment of a Scientific Relief Fund
26 - 'Report of the Commission appointed to consider the subject of lighting picture galleries by gas'
27 - An extract from the will of Robert Cappe
28 - 'Note on a proposal by Sir William Denison for the preparation of works on Natural History in British Colonies', by John Phillips
29 - Memorandum by Michael Faraday
30 - Memorandum by Edward Sabine on C R Weld's application for an increase in salary, for his post as Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society
31 - Report by the Committee on C R Weld's proposed Salary rise, in his role as Assistant Secretary to the Royal Society
32 - Letter enclosing and commenting on a report of a speech by Lord Shaftesbury at West Bromwich on the conflict between the conclusions of geological researches and Biblical authority, by 'Polaris'
33 - 'On Comets', by James Macdonald
34 - Copy of 'Suggestions for improvement in the form of Vessels, Sails, Casting of Ordnance etc', by Rev J Pearson
35 - 'Theory of the Motions in the Solar System'
36 - 'Extract from the Instructions to Captain James Ross 14th September 1839', Admiralty
37 - Extract from a letter to 'The Times' 26 September 1839, from 'Cui Bono', entitled 'The Mistake in the Antarctic Voyage'
38 - Report from the Meteorological Committee
39 - Letter from William Spence, 18 Lower Seymour Street, to S H Christie
40 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to the Royal Society
41 - Letter from George and Jane Barnard, Liverpool Road, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
42 - Letter from Jane Barnard, Liverpool Road, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
43 - Incomplete Register of Papers received by the Royal Society, 1850-1853
44 - Copy of letter from David Douglas to the Earl of Elgin
45 - Letter from Lord Elgin, Dunfermline, to David Douglas
46 - Letter from TG Law, Edinburgh, to David Douglas
47 - Letter from J Drummond Robertson,Torquay, to William Douglas
48 - Letter from MW Meikle, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, to William Douglas
49 - Letter from Lord Elgin, Dunfermline, to William Douglas
50 - Letter from J Drummond Robertson., Torquay, to William Douglas
51 - Copy of letter from William Douglas to the Earl of Elgin
52 - Letter from Alexander Miller, Edinburgh, to William Douglas
53 - Letter from JA Vollgraff, Leyden, to the Royal Society
54 - Letter from J C W Herschel, Brackley, to the Royal Society
55 - Copy of letter from the Royal Society to J C W Herschel
56 - Letter from JCW Herschel, Slough, to the Royal Society
57 - Copy of letter from the Royal Society to JCW Herschel
58 - Copy of letter from the Royal Society to J C W Herschel
59 - Letter from JCW Herschel, Brackley, to Sir Alfred Egerton
60 - Copy of letter from Sir Alfred Egerton to JCW Herschel
61 - Letter from J C W Herschel, Brackley, to Sir Alfred Egerton
62 - Copy of letter from the Royal Society to Miss Herschel
63 - Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to C R Weld
64 - Letter from G B Airy, Greenwich, to Charles Wheatstone
65 - Letter from J P Joule, Salford, to the Royal Society
66 - Additions by WS Harris to Dr Phipson's certificate
67 - Copy of a letter from Edward Sabine to F Elliot, on the proposed Melbourne Telescope
68 - Account of expense of the Acton enclosure
69 - 'Note by General Sabine referring to the suggestions contained in Dr Robinson's and Sir George Everest's letters'
70 - Copy of letter from CH Darling, Melbourne, to Edward Cardwell
71 - Letter from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, to JP Basevi
72 - 'On the expediencey of instituting in the body of the Royal Society a new class of Foreign Associates to be designated "Correspondents" or "Corresponding Members"', by Hugh Falconer
73 - Copy of Board of Treasury Minute 16616 of 28 November 1864
74 - Memorandum on the Meteorological Office by Edward Sabine
75 - Copy of a memorandum on meteorological forecasts and cautions by TH Babbington
76 - Draft memorandum from the Royal Society to the Board of Trade on iron ships and their compasses
77 - 'Memorandum from the President and Council of the Royal Society to the Board of Trade on the subject of Iron Ships and their Compasses, by E Hopkins
78 - Application from James Challis for a Royal Society grant to enable Edward Walker to publish his Cambridge University Adams Prize essay
79 - Note from JC Adams supporting James Challis's application for a Royal Society grant to enable Mr Edward Walker to publish his Adams Prize essay
80 - Copy of letter from the Government of Victoria, Australia, to Professor W P Wilson
81 - Official letter from WP Wilson, University of Melbourne, to Charles Pasley
82 - Private letter from WP Wilson, University of Melbourne, to Charles Pasley
83 - Letter from Charles Pasley, Gravesend, to Edward Sabine
84 - Letter from EJ Russell, Woodstock, to the Royal Society
85 - Letter from F W Oliver, Limpsfield, to EJ Russell
86 - Letter from F W Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
87 - Letter from F W Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
88 - Letter from F W Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
89 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
90 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
91 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
92 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
93 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
94 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
95 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
96 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
97 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
98 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
99 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
100 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
101 - Letter from FW Oliver, Dar el Nabati, to EJ Russell
102 - A sheet of notes on dust storms by FW Oliver
103 - 'Appendix to Sir Humphry Davy's paper on a method of preventing explosions from the firedamp in coal mines'
104 - Letter from the Registrar of the University of London to Lord Wrottesley
105 - Letter from JT Walker, Dehra Doon, India, to Edward Sabine
106 - Prospectus of the Quekett Microscopical Club
107 - Byelaws of the Quekett Microscopical Club
108 - Memorandum by Captain James P Basevi on temperature corrections for pendulums for the Indian Pendulum survey
109 - Notice by the Board of Trade of the suspension of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade's system of storm warnings
110 - 'Weather forecasts and storm warnings, by 'Polaris'
111 - 'The Earth a great electrifying machine', by 'Polaris'
112 - Comments on the Earth as a 'great electrifying machine', by 'Polaris'
113 - Photograph of Wadham College, Oxford
114 - 'Specimen pages of a table of the logarithms of all numbers up to one million', by Edward Sang FRSE
115 - List of paintings solicited for exhibition from the Royal Society
116 - List of paintings offered for exhibition by the Royal Society
117 - List of paintings offered for exhibition by the Royal Society
118 - Copy of a letter from Charles Fox and others to Lord Romilly, Master of the Rolls about the indexing of specifications at the Patent Office
119 - 'Sketch of a New Theory of the Oceanic Tides, based upon examinations of the causes assigned to exceptional 'tidal' waves', by JW Beilby
120 - Return showing how much of the Royal Society's income for 1869 came from public funds and how much from private investments
121 - Extracts from physiological works by HW Lobb and O Funke, by William Sharpey
122 - 'Account of the Silver Plate melted down for the Royal Society'
123 - Receipt from the Royal Mint, of Plate to be melted down for the Davy Medal Fund
124 - Receipt from the Royal Mint, of Plate to be melted down for the Davy Medal Fund
125 - Note from the Royal Mint concerning Plate to be melted down for the Davy Medal Fund
126 - Description of the silver plate to be melted down for the Davy Medal Fund
127 - Inventory of Plate to be melted down for the Davy Medal Fund
128 - Details on the five bars of silver, resulting from the melting down of the Silver Plate
129 - Printed leaflet by Hyde Clarke showing his unauthorised use of 'FRS'
130 - A list of 15 volumes of observations made at Melbourne presented by GB Neumayer to the Royal Society
131 - Letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to Sir John Lubbock
132 - Letter from Godfrey Copley to Thomas Kirke
133 - Copy of report on the working of the Great Melbourne Telescope, by RLJ Ellery
134 - Letter from 21 Fellows (including Richard Owen and T H Huxley) supporting an application by William Saville Kent for a grant towards the expenses of his proposed Marine Biological Expedition to the coast of Portugal
135 - 'Statement of Works proposed to be done...for an Arcade at the Entrance to the New Royal Academy', by Sydney Smirke
136 - A mathematical theorem by J Rouget
137 - Copy of a bill for an equatorial telescope, by Thomas Grubb
138 - Letter from Henry Wilde, Alderley Edge, to the Royal Society
139 - Anonymous Note, 'Mortality in Diss, Norfolk 1841-50'
140 - Letter from William Thomas Brande to the Royal Mint
141 - Letter from Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Tooting
142 - Letter from FW Dyson, Greenwich, to Joseph Larmor
143 - Letter from Bandinell to Edward Sabine
144 - Letter from H Barth, Alpha Road, to Edward Sabine
145 - Letter from Elizabeth Sabine, 13 Ashley Place to RH Scott
146 - Letter from R H Scott, Meteorological Office, to J D Hooker
147 - Bond in the sum of £500 for the good performance of Jonas Dryander's duties as Librarian to the Royal Society
148 - Joint bond in the sum of £1000 for the good performance of Mary Robertson and John Robertson in their duties as housekeeper and Assistant Secretary to the Society
149 - Draft of letter from BC Brodie, Royal Society, to Sir Charles Trevelyan
150 - Letter from TM Mason, 28 York Terrace, to the Duke of Sussex, President of the Royal Society
151 - 'On Linear Differential Equations No. 2', by WHL Russell
152 - Report on a paper by Thorpe and Young on the combined action of heat and pressure on the paraffins, by Carl Schorlemmer
153 - Letter from CW Thompson, Belfast, to George Gabriel Stokes
154 - Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to August Dupre
155 - Letter from Warren de la Rue, 110 Bunhill Row, to George Gabriel Stokes
156 - Letter from Donald MacFarlane, Glasgow, to George Gabriel Stokes
157 - Letter from A C L G Gunther, British Museum, to George Gabriel Stokes
158 - Letter from DT Ansted, 33 Brunswick Square, to George Gabriel Stokes
159 - Letter from PE Chase, Philadelphia, to Edward Sabine
160 - Letter from A Macalister, Trinity College Dublin, to William Sharpey
161 - Letter from John Spiller, Highbury New Park, to George Gabriel Stokes
162 - Letter from August Dupre, Westminster Hospital, to George Gabriel Stokes
163 - Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, University of London, to George Gabriel Stokes
164 - Letter from Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to Alfred W Ewing
164a - Letter from WF Barrett, Dublin, to Sir Alfred Ewing
165 - Letter from Gisbert Kapp, Wimbledon, to Sir Alfred Ewing
166 - Letter from A Gray, Bangor, to Sir Alfred Ewing
167 - Letter from WH Price, GPO London, to Sir Alfred Ewing
168 - Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, Liverpool, to Sir Alfred Ewing
169 - Letter from AE Kennelley, Orange, New Jersey, to Sir Alfred Ewing
170 - Letter from JD Everett, Belfast, to Sir Alfred Ewing
171 - Letter from AE Kennelley, Orange, New Jersey, to Sir Alfred Ewing
172 - Anonymous letter to Sir Alfred Ewing
173 - Letter from EP Culverwell, Trinity College, Dublin, to Sir Alfred Ewing
174 - Letter from EP Culverwell, Trinity College, Dublin, to Sir Alfred Ewing
175 - Letter from G Griffith, Harrow, to Sir Alfred Ewing
176 - Letter from S Sekiya, Kobe, Japan, to Sir Alfred Ewing
177 - Letter from Osmond, Paris, to Sir Alfred Ewing
178 - Letter from John Perry, 13 Brunswick Square, to Sir Alfred Ewing
179 - Letter from TC Medenhall, Washington DC, to Sir Alfred Ewing
180 - Letter from Sir William Anderson, Woolwich Arsenal, to Sir Alfred Ewing
181 - Letter from SP Thompson, Chislett Road, to Sir Alfred Ewing
182 - Copy of 'Memorandum concerning the Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs drawn up by the Royal Society', by William Sharpey
183 - Circular letter from WH Miller, asking librarians (of Foreign Academies) to add to an enclosed printed list the names of any journals containing papers which they think should be included in the Royal Society's 'Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs'
184 - Printed list, which was enclosed with a circular letter from WH Miller, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society, asking librarians of other scientific institutions to add the names of any journals containing papers which they think should be included in the Royal Society's 'Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs'
185 - 'Despatch list of Titles and Circular'
186 - 'Rectifications etc to the twelfth list of Transactions published by the Royal Society', by GR Grotsch
187 - Letter from the Academie Imperial des Sciences, St Petersburg, to the Royal Society
188 - Letter from the Observatoire Imperiale, Paris, to the Royal Society
189 - Letter from the Academie Royale de Medicine Belgique, Brussels, to the Royal Society
190 - Letter from the Cambridge University Library, to the Royal Society
191 - Letter from the University Librarian, Leiden, to the Royal Society
192 - Letter from William Mattreas, Red Lion Court, to the Royal Society
193 - Letter from the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, to the Royal Society
194 - Letter from the K Academie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, to the Royal Society
195 - Letter from the K Bayerische Academie der Wissenschaften, Munich, to the Royal Society
196 - Letter from the Accademia Gioenia, Catania, to the Royal Society
197 - Letter from the Reale Instituto Lombardo, Milan, to the Royal Society
198 - Letter from the Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna, to the Royal Society
199 - Letter from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, to the Royal Society
200 - Letter from the K Boehmische Gesell der Wiss, Prague, to the Royal Society
201 - Letter from the K Acad der Wetenskapen, Amsterdam, to the Royal Society
202 - Letter from WH Miller, Cambridge
203 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna
204 - Letter from the Videnskabense Selskab, Trondhjem, to the Royal Society
205 - Letter from the Royal Library, Berlin, to the Royal Society
206 - Letter from the University Librarian, Leiden, to the Royal Society
207 - Letter from Robert Caspary, Konigsberg, to the Royal Society
208 - Letter from WH Miller, Cambridge
209 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna, to the Royal Society
210 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna, to the Royal Society
211 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna, to the Royal Society
212 - A list of journals sent by Senoner
213 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna, to the Royal Society
214 - Letter from Senoner, Vienna, to the Royal Society
215 - Letter from Asher & Co Berlin, to the Royal Society
216 - Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, to the Royal Society
217 - Letter from W Haidinger, Vienna, to the Royal Society
218 - Letter from Josef Durdiz, Prague, to the Royal Society
219 - Letter from WA Miller, Royal Society, to W White
220 - Letter from WC Trevelyan, Athenaeum, to the Royal Society
221 - Letter from A Bone, Vienna, to the Royal Society
222 - Letter from A Bone, Vienna, to the Royal Society
223 - Letter from William Sharpey, 33 Woburn Place, to W White
224 - A list of journals sent by William Sharpey
225 - A list of journals sent by William Sharpey
226 - A list of journals sent by Senoner
227 - A list of journals sent by Senoner
228 - Letter from A Bone, Vienna, to the Royal Society
229 - A list of journals sent by A Bone, Vienna, being additions to the Royal Society's 'Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs'.
230 - Letter from Augustus Kanitz, Vienna
231 - Letter from Senoner
232 - A list of journals sent by Senoner
233 - Anonymous list of journals
234 - Anonymous list of journals
235 - Anonymous list of journals
236 - Letter from EH Weber, Leipzig
237 - A list of journals sent by the Instituto Tecnio Superiore, Milan
238 - A list of journals sent by the Academie Imperial des Sciences, St Petersburg
239 - A list of journals sent by the Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam
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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.

Papers of Robert Boyle
Papers of Robert Boyle
Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius
Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
Papers of Colin Pillinger
Papers of Colin Pillinger
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