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1 - 'A Philosophicall Diary begun Sept. the 20th'[Workdiary 17]
2 - 'Distinguish'd Experiments Or more Private Observations Continu'd from 7ber the 29th 1688/9' [Workdiary 39]
3 - Fragment of an experiment on heating chemicals in vacuo.
4 - Miscellaneous papers, including observations and fragments of text
5 - 'Preliminar[y] Relation of the Mines in Scotland in Generall'.
6 - MS version of preface to 'General History of Air'
7 - List of titles for 'General History of Air'.
8 - Superseded version of preface to `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion')
9 - 'General History of Air'
10 - 'A Small Stone of the Kinde called by some Authors Oculus Mundi, being dry & clowdy weighed': table of weights of the stone when dry, wet, etc.; and experiment on it.
11 - 'Promiscuous Collections out of Parrac his fourth Tome': numbered observations on chemical matters.
12 - Further chemical notes and memoranda.
13 - `The Titles of the (Naturall and Experimental) History of the Air'
14 - List of titles for 'Human Blood'.
15 - Copy of published text of 'Natural History of a Country''.
16 - Titles for Natural Histories of Water and Sea.
17 - MS version of title III, experiment III, of 'Respiration' ('Phil. Trans', 1670)
18 - Miscellaneous accounts of experiments and sections of text
19 - 'Chap: XII', dealing with solution of simultaneous linear equations.
20 - Extracts from workdiaries
21 - Miscellaneous sections of text, dealing with fire, heat and smoke (fols. 68-71, 74), and hydrostatic phenomena (fols. 72-3).
22 - 'Enquirys about Lime'.
23 - Unknown correspondent to Boyle
24 - Extracts from workdiaries and pasted down sections of text, recipes and memoranda.
25 - Enquirys and Tryalls about Insects & sponteneata.
26 - 'De Centro Gravitatis' and 'De Libra'.
27 - [Workdiary 15, part 2]
28 - Miscellaneous recipes, etc.
29 - Miscellaneous sections of text, including MS version of experiment XX, second trial, of 'Spring, 1st Continuation' (fol. 106).
30 - Account of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations and of mechanical apparatus.
31 - MS version of part of 'Ex. & Obs. Physicae'.
32 - Extract from letter concerning barometric observations of tides.
33 - 'L'arte maestra d'Agrocultura in segna a moltiplicare il raccolto delle semenze'.
34 - MS version of parts of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
35 - Fragment of unpublished Latin translation by Henry Oldenburg of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'.
36 - Account of phenomenon in letter by 'Mr J.M.' to 'T.H.'
37 - 'To prepare a balance to measure the bulk of bodyes by the help of water'
38 - Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'
39 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'
40 - Unpublished Latin translation of part of 'Ex. & Obs. Physicae'
41 - Superseded version of part of `History of Fluidity' ('Certain Physiological Essays')
42 - [Workdiary 30, part 2]
43 - Miscellaneous recipes, etc., including ''The Vernish for Gilding Picture-Frames' in hand of John Evelyn
44 - Unpublished Latin translation of part of 'Ex. & Obs. Physicae'
45 - 'Sectio II'
46 - 'Essay the [...] Of the Atomicall Philosophy'
47 - Latin list of Boyle's works, 1661-87
48 - French translation of chs. 1-2 of Basil Valentin's 'Tractatus Chymico-Philosophicus de Rebus Naturalibus et Supernaturalibus' (Frankfurt, 1676), and 'Advis au Lecteur'.
49 - Transcript of German treatise, 'Bereitung des Stein Ignis'
50 - Synopses of parts of 'Usefulness'
51 - MS version of parts of 'Icy Noctiluca'
52 - MS version of part of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
53 - MS version of part of 'Porosity'
54 - (a) MS version of part of 'Flame and Air' and (b) section of text on effluviums
55 - MS version of part of 'Things above Reason'
56 - Reply to comments by a critic of 'Spring of Air', probably Francis Line
57 - MS version of part of 'Cold'
58 - 'New Experiments further elucidating The Nature of the Air Water & other Bodies' submitted to Royal Society, in reply to Boyle's pneumatic experiments, by 'J.W. gent.'.
59 - Unpublished experiment relating to 'Spring, 1st Continuation'
60 - Miscellaneous descriptions and lists of experiments, recipes and sections of text, some pasted down: includes diagrams of retorts, furnace, etc., experiment with white clay (fol. 210).
61 - `Experiments proposed to be made in Mr Boyles Pneumatick Engine'
62 - Latin paper giving formula for calculation and account of 'Some of Dr Elzholtz's curious and usefull Experiments'.
63 - List of titles for 'General History of Air'
64 - MS version of preface to 'General History of Air'
65 - Drawing of furnace.
66 - List of things to remember
67 - Details of costs of smelting silver in Cardinganshire.
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