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1 - MS version of 'Articles of Inquiry Touching Mines' ('Phil. Trans.', 1666).
2 - Notes and sections of text on natural philosophy.
3 - MS version of part of 'Specific Medicines'.
4 - Unpublished passages of medical works.
5 - Geographical observations.
6 - Observations concerning a refrigerated/heated loadstone.
7 - Scientific notes.
8 - Latin medical notes
9 - Pasted up snippets of text.
10 - Notes on human imperfection and divine perfection, and things to remember in various writings.
11 - MS version of a section of `Medica Praescripta Commicata R.B'.
12 - [Workdiary 40, part 2]
13 - Brief notes of things to remember in various treatises (cf. BP 38, fol. 22); dated 'Aprill the 25th'.
14 - MS version of part of 'Examen'.
15 - Pasted-up notes, including fragments of 'Usefulness'.
16 - Passage of text on gems and causes of shining 'salino-sulphureous Particles'.
17 - Fragment of superseded version of part of 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'.
18 - MS versions of two passages in 'General History of Air'.
19 - Introductory passage to collection of data.
20 - Diagram of triangle.
21 - MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
22 - Fragment of Boyle's dialogue 'Of the Requisites of a Good Hypothesis.
23 - MS version of part of 'Effluviums'.
24 - [Workdiary 28, part 2]
25 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
26 - Account of experiment about transmission of colourless ink through wetted paper.
27 - MS version of part of 'Languid Motion'.
28 - MS version of part of 'Spring, 1st Continuation'.
29 - Experiment concerning heat.
30 - Notes relating to 'Effluviums'.
31 - Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'
32 - Latin account of chemical experiment.
33 - Section of text of 'Certain Physiological Essays'.
34 - Section of text concerning the circulation of the blood, and an experiment to illustrate it.
35 - Section of text related to 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'.
36 - MS version of part of 'Things above Reason'.
37 - Notes for 'Christ. Virt., I'
38 - Fragment from MS version of 'Languid Motion'.
39 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
40 - MS version of part of 'Degradation of Gold'.
41 - Two lists of scientific phenomena.
42 - Text relating to 'Cold'.
43 - Part of defence speech by 'E.G.'
44 - Part of original version of 'Usefulness'.
45 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
46 - Section of text on feelings of severed limbs.
47 - 'Introductory Preface'
48 - `Notes & Experiments belonging to the papers about the History of Qualities...'
49 - Sections of text on substantial forms, etc.
50 - Section of text relating to 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
51 - MS version of introduction to `Essay XIII' of 'Usefulness'
52 - Section of text dealing with concretion of liquors.
53 - MS version of part of 'Producibleness'.
54 - MS version of part of 'Continuation of Fluids contiguous to other Fluids' ('Phil. Trans.', 1677).
55 - Geographical notes.
56 - MS versions of two passages in 'Hidden Qualities' and five in 'General History of Air'.
57 - MS version of part of 'Things above Reason'.
58 - Texts concerning effluvia of celestial bodies, heat of sun, etc.
59 - MS version of part of 'General History of Air'.
60 - Part of paper about the pores and figures of liquors, describing various experiments, etc., interrupted by note accompanying a strange creature, resembling a grasshopper (fol. 104).
61 - Limitations to distillation etc. in determining the nature of vegetables.
62 - MS version of part of 'Certain Physiological Essays'.
63 - Introduction to Boyle's critique of orthodox medical practice, in the form of a letter.
64 - MS version of part of 'Theodora'
65 - MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
66 - MS version of part of 'Effluviums'.
67 - Section of text concerning distillation.
68 - MS version of part of 'Ex & Obs Physicae'.
69 - Inadequacy of anatomists' understanding of living organisms.
70 - Queries concerning electrical bodies, completing text in BP 22, fols. 197-9.
71 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
72 - MS version of part of 'Gems'
73 - Passage concerning methods of calcining gold.
74 - Passage complaining of inadequacies of existing writings on natural philosophy.
75 - Section of text on the nature of firm bodies.
76 - Material relating to 'General History of Air'.
77 - MS version of part of 'High Veneration'.
78 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
79 - Section of text as to whether amalgam of metals nobler than its constituents, or a hybrid living creature than its ancestors.
80 - Fragment of 'Dialogue on Heat and Flame'
81 - Conclusion of a discourse on liquors.
82 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
83 - Natural history observations (fungi and barnacles).
84 - Passages of text intended for insertion into 'Usefulness', or another, ancillary treatise.
85 - MS version of part of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
86 - Passage concerning composition of copper.
87 - MS version of part of 'Respiration' ('Phil. Trans.', 1670)
88 - MS version of part of 'Flame and Air'.
89 - Passage concerning the interpretation of others' experiments.
90 - MS version of parts of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2', etc.
91 - Fragments of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals' and related texts.
92 - Section of text relating to sequel to 'Alcali and Acid' ('Mechanical Qualities').
93 - 'The Latin version of the Christian Virtuoso': cover sheet.
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