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1 - Paper, ['Concerning the differences in the magnetic needle, on board the Investigator, arising from an alternation in the direction of the ship's head'] by Matthew Flinders in a letter to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks
2 - Paper, 'On some chemical agencies of electricity being the Bakerian Lecture' by Humphry Davy
Expand 3 - Paper, 'On the precession of the equinoxes' by Reverend Abram [Abraham] Robertson3 - Paper, 'On the precession of the equinoxes' by Reverend Abram [Abraham] Robertson
4 - Paper, 'An account of two children born with cataracts in their eyes, to shew that their sight was obscured in very different degrees; with experiments to determine the proportional knowledge of objects acquired by them immediately after the cataracts were removed' by Everard Home
Expand 5 - Paper, 'Observations on the structure of the different cavities, which constitute the stomach of the whale, compared with those of ruminating animals, with a view to ascertain the situation of the digestive organ' by Everard Home5 - Paper, 'Observations on the structure of the different cavities, which constitute the stomach of the whale, compared with those of ruminating animals, with a view to ascertain the situation of the digestive organ' by Everard Home
6 - Paper, 'On the formation of the bark of trees' in a letter from T [Thomas] A [Andrew] Knight to Right Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks
7 - Paper, 'An investigation of the general term of an important series in the inverse method of finite differences' by Reverend John Brinkley
8 - Paper, 'On fairy-rings' by Wm [William] Hyde Wollaston
9 - Paper, 'Some account of the different stomachs of animals, who do not ruminate, compared with the more complex stomachs of those who do' by Everard Home
Expand 10 - Paper, 'Experiments for investigating the cause of the coloured concentric rings discovered by Sir I [Isaac] Newton between two object glasses laid upon one another' by William Herschel10 - Paper, 'Experiments for investigating the cause of the coloured concentric rings discovered by Sir I [Isaac] Newton between two object glasses laid upon one another' by William Herschel
11 - Paper, 'On the economy of bees' in a letter from T A [Thomas Andrew] Knight to the R Hon Sir Jos [Joseph] Banks
12 - Paper, German version of ['Observations and measurements of the planet Vesta'] by Johann Hieronymus Schroter
13 - Paper, English translation of ['Observations and measurements of the planet Vesta'] by Johann Hieronymous Schroter
14 - Letter, regarding observations of planet Vesta from Stephen Groombridge to Stephen Lee
15 - Letter, 'Extract of a letter from Dr [Heinrich] Olbers FRS to Dr [Thomas] Young, For Sec RS, announcing the discovery of a new planet'
Expand 16 - Paper, 'A new eudiometer, accompanied with experiments, elucidating its application' by Wm [William] Hasledine Pepys16 - Paper, 'A new eudiometer, accompanied with experiments, elucidating its application' by Wm [William] Hasledine Pepys
Expand 17 - Paper, 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr [Heinrich] Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun' by Wm [William] Herschel17 - Paper, 'Observations on the nature of the new celestial body discovered by Dr [Heinrich] Olbers, and of the comet which was expected to appear last January in its return from the sun' by Wm [William] Herschel
Expand 18 - Paper, 'On the quantity of carbon in carbonic acid' by Wm [William] Allen and Wm [William] Hasledine Pepys18 - Paper, 'On the quantity of carbon in carbonic acid' by Wm [William] Allen and Wm [William] Hasledine Pepys
Expand 19 - Paper, 'An account of the Relistian tin mine' by Joseph Carne in a letter to Davies Giddy [Gilbert]19 - Paper, 'An account of the Relistian tin mine' by Joseph Carne in a letter to Davies Giddy [Gilbert]
20 - Paper, 'An analysis of the waters of the Dead Sea and the River Jordan' by Alexander [John Gaspard] Marcet
i - Fragment of notes following publication of 'A description of the anatomy of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Everard Home
ii - Fragment of paper, 'On the mode of breeding of the oviviviparous [sic] shark, and on the aeration of the fœtal blood in different classes of animals' by Everard Home
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