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1 - Materials for a thesaurus or dictionary, including lists of words and phrases in English and Latin with numbered references, definitions, and indexes.
2 - Notes on distinction between venial and mortal sin.
3 - Table of barometric observations.
4 - Numbered list of experiments, including pencilled references to Experimenta et Observationes Physicae on fol. 128v.
5 - Lists, etc., of Boyle letters by Henry Miles, one on the back of a note from 'R.P.', 2 November 1745. Fol. 136 is a note from M.R. to Miles with memoranda on it by Miles.
6 - Alphabetical list of minerals and other substances.
7 - List of letters from Eliot to Boyle.
8 - Algebraic equation
9 - 'The Index to the Paralipomena'
10 - `The Dayly Reflection. To my Lady Ranalaugh'
11 - Paper on excellency of Christian religion, prehaps unpublished prefatory material for 'The Excellency of Theology'.
12 - 'Proposals for the propagating of the Christian Religion and converting of Slaves, Whether Negroes or Indians in the English Plantations'
13 - Methodological prescriptions.
14 - Notes on types of experiments.
15 - Copy of 'General Heads for the Natural History of a Country' ('Phil. Trans.', 1666)
16 - `Catalogue des Titres ou Chaptires de l'Histoire de l'Air', list of titles in French for 'General History of Air'
17 - 'Notes extracted out of the Florentine Booke'
18 - Chapter heads for putative tome 2 of Ex & 'Obs Physicae'
19 - `Tituli Ad Naturalem atque Experimentalem Aeris Historiam', lists of titles in Latin for 'General History of Air'
20 - Copy of a list of Boyle's unpublished writings.
21 - 'The Order of My Severall Treatises'
22 - Introductory note and index of chapters to ''Paralipomena''
23 - Inventory of Boyle's papers; copy of 'Contents of boxes A and B'
24 - Advertisement concerning Boyle's inability to receive visitors.
25 - Copies of letters to Oldenburg about Boyle's writings.
26 - A sequel referring to `the printed Advertisement I gave my Friends and other Virtuosi, that several of my Writings are (in probability) stolen away'
27 - Copy of letter to Oldenburg about Boyle's writings.
28 - Engraved plate of a sundial, signed 'Johannes Marke', London, 1667.
29 - 'The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis'
30 - Advertisement concerning Boyle's inability to receive visitors.
31 - Partial copy of account of Siam.
32 - Proposal for a Universal Society for reforming medicine, education, commerce and the mechanical arts by gathering and transmitting information from all over Europe and setting up schools.
33 - Alternative version of subsidiary remarks to section of 'Ex & Obs Physicae'dealing with medical topics.
34 - Robert Codrington, Latin ode to Boyle.
35 - List of chapters of 'Paralipomena'
36 - 'Memoir' and 'Advertisements' for 'Paralipomena'
37 - Engraved plates, mainly by Ger[ard] Vandergucht (early 18th-century), but including reversed version of fol. 201 (fol. 219)
38 - Printed Latin treatise dealing with apocalyptic speculation.
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