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1 - Contents of the (as yet) unpublished parts of 'Usefulness', endorsed by Henry Oldenburg as having been received by him on 25 April 1666.
2 - `Essay III Containeing a further Declaration of the Usefullnes of Naturall Philosophy by manifesting that Physiologie much conduces to promote the Empire of Man over the Creatures'.
3 - `Notes upon the 27th Section'.
4 - Untitled list of heads on porosity.
5 - Fragment of original version of 'Usefulness'.
6 - Title and first two paragraphs of `Essay the VIII: That a Ground of expecting considerable things from Exper Philosophie is given by those things which have been found out by illiterate Trades-men of lighted on by change' ('Usefulness').
7 - Material relating to 'Usefulness'.
8 - Cover sheets. Fol. 62v endorsed 'Rough Papers belonging to the Vth Essay'; fol. 63, 'Promiscuous Addenda to my severall Treatises' [Title-page of Workdiary 22].
9 - 'The Order of My Severall Treatises'.
10 - 'Promiscuous Addenda to my severall Treatises' [Workdiary 22, part 1].
11 - 'A Continuation of (Printed) Addenda to my severall Treatises' [Workdiary 22, part 2].
12 - List of Raymond Lull's books.
13 - 'A Diurnall Miscellaneous Collection, Begun March the 25th 1648/9' [Workdiary 4].
14 - `Of the Study of the Booke of Nature. For the First Section of my Treatise of Occasional Reflections.'
15 - 'A Philosophical Diary. Begun this first of January 1654/5' [Workdiary 12].
16 - MS version of part of 'Notion of Nature'.
17 - MS version of part of 'Excellency of Theology'.
18 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
19 - Sections of 'An Essay of various Degrees or kinds of the Knowledge of natural things' interspersed by material on sense, reason and authority (fols. 167-8).
20 - Early version of publisher's note to 'Degradation of Gold'.
21 - MS version of experiment XVIII in 'Spring, 1st Continuation'.
22 - Unpublished Latin translation of part of 'Exp & Obs Physicae'.
23 - Sections of 'An Essay of various Degrees or kinds of the Knowledge of natural things' interspersed by 'Explications by real Qualities and substantial Formes' (fol. 186).
24 - Extract from Wallis' 'Opera Mathematica' concerning Euclid.
25 - MS version of section 7 of Essay I of 'Usefulness, II, sect. 2'.
26 - Latin treatise attacking van Helmont in favour of Paracelsus.
27 - Text concerning 'judiciary astrology' and celestial influences.
28 - Copy of first three paragraphs of published text of 'Natural History of a Country' ('Phil. Trans.', 1666).
29 - 'A Fragment of 'The Aspireing Naturalist' (A Philosophical Romance)'.
30 - List of scientific projects/desiderata.
31 - Sections of text, including introductory comments to 'Cogitationes Physicae'.
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