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1 - Material relating to 'Superficial Figures of Fluids' ('Phil. Trans.', 1676)
2 - Latin mathematical extract, evidently from Wallis.
3 - 'Materials for the Inquiring what the Soul of a Brute may be' (pencil)
4 - Headings for experiments with volatile salts.
5 - 'Memoirs for the Paralipomena'.
6 - Fragment of original version of 'Usefulness'.
7 - MS version of part of 'Things above Reason'.
8 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'
9 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
10 - Fragment from MS version of `Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes' Problemata de Vacuo' ('Hidden Qualities').
11 - Material relating to 'Effluviums'.
12 - Material relating to 'Spring, 1st Continuation'.
13 - Material relating to 'Respiration' ('Phil. Trans.', 1670)
14 - Fragment from MS version of `Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes' Problemata de Vacuo' ('Hidden Qualities').
15 - Fragment of original version of 'Usefulness'.
16 - Section of text from 'The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis'.
17 - [Workdiary 30, part 1]
18 - Series of passages concerning physical phenomena and theological reflections.
19 - Experiments on gold.
20 - Fragment of an unpublished part of 'Usefulness'.
21 - List of particulars of precious stones.
22 - 'Materials for the Inquiring what the Soul of a Brute may be' (pencil)
23 - Material relating to appendix to 'Final Causes'.
24 - Note to 'Cogitationes Physicae'
25 - Part of introduction to unpublished `Essay XIII' of 'Usefulness'.
26 - Section of text on sensation and sensible qualities.
27 - Unpublished paragraph concerning a MS 'about those rich and noble Gems, that grow in countrys very remote from ours', written after 'the foregoing Pentades' and obtained from 'the worthy Deputy Governor of the East India Company Mr T[avernier].'
28 - Fragment of unpublished Latin translation of 'Respiration' ('Phil. Trans.', 1670)
29 - Fragment of text of 'Of Subterraneal Steames As they are capable of affecting the Aire'.
30 - Passage on nature of propositions.
31 - `Tituli Ad Naturalem Atque Experimentalem Aeris Historiam', Latin titles for 'General History of Air'.
32 - Text concerning Boyle's views on occasionalism.
33 - Memoranda concerning various natural phenomena and philosophical and theological topics.
34 - MS version of parts of section I 'Final Causes'.
35 - Notes on Seneca on the senses, with list of miscellaneous phenomena relating to sensation on fol. 48v.
36 - Series of questions on metals and ores.
37 - Mathematical equations and notes.
38 - Unpublished experiment, showing the sympathetic vibration of guitar strings.
39 - Extract from Agostino Scilla, 'La Vana Speculazione Disingannata dal Senso' (Naples, 1670).
40 - List of magnetical experiments.
41 - Notes on rigidity and elasticity.
42 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II' and another section of text.
43 - (1) MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix' and (2) passages concerning admiration and understanding of God and his works; the correct use of words 'inconceivable' and 'incomprehensible'; and other topics.
45 - Fragment of 'Dialogue concerning Heat and Flame'.
46 - Fragment of the original version of 'Usefulness'.
47 - Extract from Wallis' 'Opera Mathematica'.
48 - MS version of part of 'Effluviums'.
49 - Experiments concerning 'klander' worm (imperfect).
50 - Notes on the nature of our suppositions.
51 - Phenomena to be remembered.
52 - Latin translation of part of experimental treatise.
53 - List of new experiments to be done 'in vacuo'.
54 - Draft of part of chemical treatise.
55 - List of phenomena to illustrate points in a treatise.
56 - Notes on measurement of weights.
57 - Unpublished observations on underwater plants.
58 - Material relating to 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
59 - Notes on mixture and its implication for explanation of qualities.
60 - `Notes on the Essay concerning Saltpetir'.
61 - Notes on traction.
62 - 'Heads of the Discourse of the Pores of Bodys & figures of Corpuscles'.
63 - MS version of the 21 titles for 'Cold'.
64 - Title and introductory section from unpublished `Essay the XI' of 'Usefulness' etc.
65 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
66 - Contents of the (as yet) unpublished parts of 'Usefulness'.
67 - Superceded version of part of 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
68 - Introductory note to book.
69 - MS version of part of 'Ex. & Obs. Physicae'.
70 - MS version of complaint about plagiarism by foreign writers, esp. in Germany and Italy.
71 - Note to 'Cogitationes Physicae'.
72 - Light: reconcileability of Epicurean and Cartesian theories.
73 - MS version of Advertisement to 'Strange Reports' in 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
74 - Phenomena to remember, and references.
75 - MS version of part of 'Notion of Nature'.
76 - `That Divers Occult Qualities may be Mechanically Produced', unpublished introductory paragraph, perhaps from an essay once intended for inclusion in 'Mechanical Qualities'.
77 - `Avertissemt. de Mr. Boyle Sur la perte qu'il a fait de plusieurs de ses Ecrits...'
78 - Notes on phenomena associated with baroscope and their implications.
79 - List of experiments and phenomena to discuss in an unspecified treatise, some of which are included in 'Effluviums'.
80 - List of titles of various works by Boyle, with numbered references to them.
81 - Sentence concerning production of bodies.
82 - Robert Hooke's comments on an MS version of 'Final Causes'.
83 - Text concerning saltness of sea.
84 - List of `Experiments to be made in seald R[eceiver]'
85 - Part of tract about flame.
86 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 1'.
87 - Latin treatise attacking van Helmont in favour of Paracelsus.
88 - Topics concerning mutual benefit of experimental and speculative philosophy, etc.
89 - Passages concerning types of experience.
90 - Material relating to 'Usefulness'.
91 - Experiment concerning effect of salt and snow on oil in pipe.
92 - Damaged note on experiment by 'Dr Faustus'.
93 - Record of results of experiment.
94 - Problems of reusing others' experiments.
95 - Observations and queries concerning springiness of bodies.
96 - `The History of Tast[e]s as they belong to the Object that is said to be endowed therewith'
97 - `The History of Odors as they belong to the Object that is said to be endowed therewith'
98 - Part of discourse addressed to Pyrophilus on artificial bodies.
99 - Note explaining lack of order in ensuing experiments.
100 - Experiment with plants growing without air.
101 - Introduction to `Essay the VII' of 'Usefulness'.
102 - Material relating to 'Mechanical Qualities'.
103 - Note on luminosity of bodies.
104 - Experiment on texture of camphire.
105 - Notes on eyes and teeth of fish/crabs.
106 - MS version of part of 'Mineral Waters'.
107 - 'Problemata Usus Septimae Tabulae'.
108 - Suppositions: why men overlook them.
109 - Material relating to 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix'.
110 - Experiments with oily liquors, etc.
111 - Material relating to 'Spring of the Air'.
112 - MS version of experiment III of `New Experiments about Explosions' ('Flame and Air').
113 - MS version of parts of 'Cold'.
114 - MS version of part of 'Degradation of Gold'.
115 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
116 - MS version of parts of 'Icy Noctiluca'.
117 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
118 - Fragment of 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
119 - Part of dialogue concerning planetary intelligences and divine beings in heaven.
120 - False suppositions, and phenomena which more significant than realised (headings).
121 - Material relating to appendix to 'Final Causes'.
122 - Preliminary note to treatise.
123 - MS material relating to 'General History of Air'
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