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1 - Copy of "Further Experiments and Observations on Iodine", by Humphry Davy
2 - Copy of "An Account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit", by Charles Wheatstone
3 - Letter from Fearon Fallows, Cape Town, to Sir John Barrow
4 - Copy of notes on determining the heights of mountains by the barometer, by Nevil Maskelyne and Charles Hutton
5 - "On Spontaneous Nitrification", by CF Schoenbein, University of Bale
6 - List of letters to Sir JC Ross in the collection of Sir Edward Sabine's correspondence
7 - Letter from Walter E Smith to George Gabriel Stokes, with reply
8 - Letter from GJ Romanes to George Gabriel Stokes
9 - Rough estimates of the cost of various pieces of equipment, evidently for some deep sea dredging undertaking
10 - Copy of a letter from Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Paris, to Martin Folkes
11 - "The cause of the luminous phenomeno called Aurora Borealis", by Alexander Ansorini
12 - Letter from JLF Bertrand, Paris, to the Royal Society
13 - Letter from J J Sylvester to Arthur Cayley
14 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
15 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Maddox Street, to Arthur Cayley
16 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Maddox Street, to Arthur Cayley
17 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
18 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
19 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
20 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
21 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
22 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
23 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
24 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Maddox Street, to Arthur Cayley
25 - Letter from J J Sylvester, Athenaeum, to Arthur Cayley
26 - Incomplete letter from JWL Glaisher, on the vacancy in the Gresham Professorship of Astronomy
27 - An "obligation" written out in WB Clarke's own hand, on observing the rules and regulations regarding his Fellowship of the Royal Society
28 - Draft of a letter or memorandum about the Meteorological Office
29 - Letter from Sophie Colenso, Amersham, to WE Armstrong
30 - "Books of the late Board of Longitude, deposited with the Royal Society Feb 16 1830"
31 - 'A list of the inscriptions on a number of Roman medals and / or coins'
32 - "A List of Curiosities presented by Captain William Walker to the Royal Society"
33 - "A List of the Instruments and other Things made use of by the late Mr Stephen Gray FRS about his Electricall Experiments, presented to the Royall Society by his Nephew Mr John Gray MD of Canterbury"
34 - "A List of Curiosities from New England and the parts adjoining, presented to the Royal Society by John Winthrop Esqr FRS June 27 1734"
35 - "A List of Minerals given to the Royal Society on Febry 18 1685/6 by Dr (now Sir Hans) Sloane Bart, President etc"
36 - "A list of 20 medals found in a Pott full of the like sort found 1691 in the Island of Calde...by the proprietor Mr John Williams and by him sent to Sr Robert Southwell"
37 - "A list of the items found in two boxes, presented to the Royal Society by Dr Short"
38 - List of "Fossils from Matlack [Matlock] in Derbyshire sent by Mr Moreton Gilks"
39 - List of "the collection of 300 Fossils bought by Mr Professor John Anderson of Glasgow of Emanuel Mendes da Costa in July 1767"
40 - 'Bill of Costs'
41 - Statement concerning a legal action, which mentions Dr Brown's property in Crane Court
42 - Statement concerning a legal action, which mentions Dr Brown's property in Crane Court, titled 'Sir Stephen Anderson agt Isaac Weaver'
43 - Statement concerning a legal action, which mentions Dr Brown's property in Crane Court
44 - A duplicate of one of Marcello Malpighi's communications to the Society
45 - Report of a subcommittee appointed to confer with the Royal Geographical Society Arctic Committee
46 - Rough minutes of a meeting of the officers of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, Royal Astronomical and Chemical Societies
47 - Report by Edwin Dunkin to the Committee of Papers on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
48 - Report by RS Ball on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
49 - Report by GH Darwin on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
50 - Report by WHM Christie on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
51 - Further comments by GH Darwin on a paper by FC Penrose on the orientation of a number of Greek temples
52 - Drawing illustrating a paper by G Thin on the anatomy of connective tissue
53 - Drawing illustrating a paper by G Thin on the anatomy of connective tissue
54 - Drawing illustrating a paper by G Thin on the anatomy of connective tissue
55 - Drawing illustrating a paper by G Thin on the anatomy of connective tissue
56 - Letter from M O'Brien, Upper Norwood, to the Royal Society
57 - "The stresses and strains in isotropic elastic solid elipsoids in equilibrium under bodily forces derivable from a potential of the second degree", by Charles Chree
58 - "Index to Papers Received June 1885 to June 1905"
59 - Copy of letter from J F W Herschel, Collingwood, to Edward Sabine
60 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt
61 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt
62 - Letter from G B Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, to WR Birt
63 - Letter from CP Smyth, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to WR Birt
64 - Incomplete letter from Arthur Gamgee, Owens College Manchester, to the Royal Society
65 - Report by JW Hulke on a paper by JD Macdonald on the physiology of the eye
66 - Report by William Spottiswoode on a paper by Logan
67 - Letter from AE Fridell, National Photo Mezzo Tint Gallery, to George Gabriel Stokes
68 - Letter from WF Tiffin to Royal Society
69 - Letter from J A Broun to George Gabriel Stokes
70 - Fragment of a copy of a letter from Charles Lyell to a person unknown on evolution
71 - Cuttings from 'The Times' containing James South's letter about pseudo-Fellows, and some genuine, lending their names to the promotion of Railway schemes
72 - A memorandum on the suggested functions of a proposed Royal Society Committee on Evolution
73 - 'Evolution Commitee of the Royal Society'
74 - Manuscript draft of a circular letter titled, ''Evolution Commitee of the Royal Society'
75 - Manuscript draft of a circular letter titled, ''Evolution Commitee of the Royal Society'
76 - A note on the variation in common herring by WFR Weldon, for the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
77 - A printed circular letter by WFR Weldon, on a resolution passed by the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
78 - Draft of a printed circular letter by WFR Weldon, on a resolution passed by the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
79 - Printed circular letter by Francis Galton, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
80 - Draft of a printed circular letter by Francis Galton, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
81 - Memorandum on the work of the Royal Society's Evolution Committee by Sir Michael Foster
82 - Copy of an excerpt from the minutes of the Royal Society's Evolution Committee
83 - Report of the Evolution Committee to the Council of the Royal Society
84 - Report of the Royal Society's Evolution Committee
85 - Letter from WFR Weldon to Francis Galton, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
86 - Letter from J T Cunningham, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
87 - Draft of a letter from Francis Galton to the Secretary of the Royal Society, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
88 - Copy of a letter from Francis Galton to the Secretary of the Royal Society, on the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society
89 - Letter from WFR Weldon to Francis Galton
90 - Letter from WFR Weldon to Francis Galton
91 - Letter from WFR Weldon to R Harrison
92 - Letter from WFR Weldon to R Harrison
93 - Letter from William Bateson to Francis Galton
94 - Letter from Michael Foster to R Harrison
95 - Letter from WFR Weldon to R Harrison
96 - Letter from Francis Galton, Karnac Hotel, Luxnor, to Michael Foster
97 - Letter from WFR Weldon to Michael Foster
98 - Letter from WFR Weldon to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society
99 - Letter from Raphael Meldola to the Royal Society
100 - Letter from Karl Pearson to the Royal Society
101 - Letter from W T Thiselton-Dyer, Kew, to Michael Foster
102 - Printed circular with two printed enclosures, relating to a collective inquiry of the Evolution Committee of the Royal Society, into progressive melanism in moths
103 - Letter from W Somerville, Cambridge, to the Royal Society
104 - Letter from Sir Norman Lockyer to Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society
105 - Extracts from Council Minutes of the Royal Society, on the creation of a Committee to consider the subject of the proposed Astronomical survey of Ancient British Monuments
106 - Report of the Astronomical Survey of Ancient British Monuments Committee
107 - Letter from CH Read, Society of Antiquarians, London, to Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary of the Royal Society
108 - Memorandum to Lord Rayleigh, President of the Royal Society, concerning a memorial from the Society of Antiquarians calling for the appointment by the Government of an Inspector of Ancient Monuments
109 - Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to HH Watson
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