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Collapse 1 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-16621 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-1662
1 - 'Questions Propounded and agreed uppon to be sent to Tenariff' devised by Lord Brouncker and Mr Boyle
2 - 'A Brief Experimentall Accompt of the of the Production of Some Colours' by Dr Goddard
3 - 'Some Observations Concerning the Texture and Similar part of the body of a tree, which may hold also in Shrubs and other woody Plants' by Jonathan Goddard
4 - 'The Art of Refining' by Dr Merrett
5 - 'Experiment of the Weight of Bodies increased in the fire'
6 - 'Relation Concerning Bernacles' by Sir Robert Moray
7 - 'The Making of Ceruse' brought in by Sir Robert Moray from Mr [Sir Philibert] Vernatti
8 - 'The Manner of Making Green Coperas' by Mr Daniel Colwall
9 - 'Relation concerning the Academie at Paris' by Colonel Tuke
10 - 'Propositions of some Experiments to be made by My Lord Sandwich in his present voyage'
11 - 'Experiments made of the Sympathetick pouder' by Sir Gilbert Talbot
12 - 'An exact Relation of the Pico Tenariff taken from Mr Clappham by Mr Evelyn'
13 - 'A Brief Account of the Supposed Rain of Wheat by Colonel Tuke'
14 - 'An Account of Glasse Drops by Sir Robert Moray'
15 - 'Experiments concerning the force of blowing with a mans breath by Dr Wilkins'
16 - 'The History of the Making of Salt Peeter [saltpetre] By Mr Henshaw'
17 - 'A Relation Concerning the Making of Allum By Mr Daniel Colwall'
18 - 'Observations on the humble and Sensible Plants in Mr Chiffins Garden in St James's Parke Made August the 9th 1661 Present The Lord Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, Dr Wilkins, Mr Evelin, Dr Goddard, Dr Henshaw and Dr Clarke Brought in by Dr Clarke'
19 - 'The Description of the Island Hirta Brought in by Sir Robert Moray'
20 - 'Mr Hobbs's [Thomas Hobbes] Proposition To find two meane proportionalls betweene two straight lines Given'
21 - 'Answer to the foregoeing Probleme By The Lord Brouncker'
22 - 'An Experimentall Account of the Compression of Aire Made by Mr Boyle'
23 - 'The China Vernish Brought in By Dr Needham'
24 - 'Some Observations of a Cameleon' by Jonathan Goddard
25 - 'An Experimentall Account of the raising up of a weight hung at the bottome of an emptie Bladder' by William Croone
26 - 'China Vernish brought in By Mr John Clayton'
27 - 'Of Making Cloth with Sheeps wooll Delivered in By Sir William Petty'
28 - 'Observations of a Stone called Ocullus Mundi' by Jonathan Goddard
29 - 'An Account of the QuickSilver Experiment made at Mamhead by Mr William Ball'
30 - 'An Exact Account of the Making of Marbled Paper Brought in by Mr Evelyn'
31 - 'An Account of the Weight of a Carpe' by William Croone
32 - 'Of the Recoiling of Gunns by The Lord Brouncker'
33 - 'Direction for Sea-men bound for farre voyages' by Mr Rooke
34 - 'An Experiment of the Instrument for Sounding of Depths without a line or cord made the 19 of March 1662 By The Lord Brouncker and Sir Robert Moray'
35 - 'Direction for the Observations of the Eclipses of the Moone by Mr Rooke'
36 - 'A Demonstration of the vibration of a Pendulum in a Cycloid By the Lord Brouncker'
37 - 'Experiments propounded by Sir Robert Moray and Recommended to Dr Power'
38 - 'An Account of an Experiment made with Oyle in the Long Tube' by Lawrence Rooke and Jonathan Goddard
39 - 'Experiments of Refining Gold with Antimony. The first with severall parcells' by Dr Jonathan Goddard
40 - 'Account of the Sounding of the Depth of the Sea betweene Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, with the wooden Globe and Lead By My Lord Brouncker and Sir Robert Moray'
41 - 'The manner of making Tarr and Pitch in New England' by John Winthrop
42 - Account of making 'Aurum Musicum'
43 - 'Experiments of weighing glasses canes with the Cylinders of Quicksilver in them, according to the Torricellian Experiment' by Jonathan Goddard
44 - 'Dr Wallis his Accompt of the Experiment made at Gresham College'
45 - 'Mr Lord Brouncker's Account of the third Experiment made by Dr Goddard'
46 - 'Dr Charlton's Apparatus Phonocampticus or What Enquiries are principally to be made by such, who would attain to the certain knowledge of the Nature of Eccho's'
47 - 'Concerning the building of ships in New England by Mr Winthrop'
48 - 'Concerning Sider [Cider] by Dr Smith'
49 - 'Of the Breeding etc of Colchester Oysters by Mr Haak'
50 - 'Enquiries for the East Indies drawn up by Mr Colwall, Mr Hoskins, Mr Oldenburg'
51 - Index, 'A table of discourses, experiments, enquiries &c. contained in this register for the year 1661 & 1662', by Richard Waller
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10 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 10
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22 - Volume 1 of index to the journal, register and letter books
23 - Volume 2 of index to the journal, register and letter books

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