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Expand 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
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10 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 10
Collapse 11 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-172411 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-1724
0 - Index, for Register Book 11
1 - 'An account of the Cataract or Falls of Niagara taken at Albany October 10 1721 by the Honourable Paul Dudley from Monsieur Borassau a French Native of Canada'
2 - 'Description of an Engine to raise Water by the help of Quicksilver, invented by the late Mr Joshua Haskins and made practicable and usefull by J S Desaguliers'
3 - 'An Account of the new method of Cutting for the Stone' by John Douglas, Surgeon
4 - 'An Account of a Comet, which was observed at Berlin in the Royal Observatory Anno 1718 from January 18 to February 5 by Christfried Kirch'
5 - 'De Sectione Anguli' by Abraham de Moivre
6 - James Jurin's consideration of Pietro Antonio Michelotti's 'De Motu Aquarum fluentium'
7 - 'Observations on the Eclipse of the Moon June 18 1722 and the longitude of Port Royal in Jamaica determined thereby' by Edmond Halley
8 - 'The Longitude of Carthagena in America' by Edmond Halley
9 - 'Some Amendments and Additions to the Account of things found underground in Lincolnshire in the Transactions of May and June Anno Domini 1702 no 279' by Ralph Thoresby
10 - 'An Account of an extra-uterine Foetus, taken out of a woman after Death, that had continued five years and a half in the Body' by Robert Houstoun
11 - 'An Account of the Depth of Rain fallen from April 1 1722 to April 1 1723 observed at Widdrington in Northumberland' communicated to James Jurin by Reverend Horsley
12 - 'Observations and Experiments on the 'Sal catharticum amarum' commonly called Epsom Salt' by John Brown, chemist
13 - 'An account of a praeternatural Tumour on the Loins of an Infant attended with a cloven Spine' by William Rutty
14 - Observations of the transverse section of the colon by Abraham Wittemberg
15 - 'An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on Several bodies newly discover'd to be Electrical' by Stephen Gray
16 - 'An Account of two Chirurgical Cases etc' by Dr Steigertahl
17 - Observations of a 'burning island' in the Azores by Captain John Robeson
18 - 'An account of a Book intitled Geometria Organica Sive Descriptio Linearum curvarum universalis' by Colin Maclaurin
19 - Treatise of the plague of 1714 in Constantinople by Emanuel Timone
20 - 'On the foetus in the Uterus for 46 years' by Dr Steighterhall
21 - 'An account of a Foetus that continued 46 years in the mothers Body' communicated by Dr Steigertahl
22 - Copy of a letter of Monsieur Camerarius Professor at Tubingen on the subject of a foetus that remained in a woman's body for 46 years
23 - Solution to a geometrical problem recently proposed by Bernoulli
24 - 'William Sanderson's Observations on the Variation of the Needle made in the Baltick Anno 1720 communicated by Captain Soame'
25 - 'An account of the Poison wood Tree in New England by the honourable Paul Dudley' communicated by John Chamberlayne
26 - 'A Method for making Sugar from the Maple Tree in new England communicated by Mr Paul Dudley'
27 - 'A farther account of the same (Poyson) Tree by William Sherard'
28 - 'Of the Infinity of the System of the World' by Edmond Halley
29 - 'A Continuation of this last Subject and of the number of the fixt Stars etc ' by Edmond Halley
30 - 'Observations on the Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn made with a reflecting Telescope' by John Hadley
31 - 'A Description of the Moose Deer in America by the Honourable Paul Dudley' communicated by John Chamberlayne
32 - 'A Short account of a trading Voyage perform'd by Joseph Kellug an Englishman of New England in Company with Six French men from Canada to Missisippi in the year 1710 in two Canoos made of Birch Bark with some general Remark made by the Said Kellug'
33 - 'An answer to some objections that are newly rais'd against his high Operation by John Douglass'
34 - 'An account of the Aurora Borealis observ'd at Dublin on Munday the Sixth of February 1721 by J W'
35 - 'An account of two mock-Suns and an Arc of a Rainbow inverted with an Halo and its bright Arc seen on Sunday and munday October 22 and 23 1721 at Lyndon Comitat Rutland Communicated by William Whiston'
36 - 'A Scheme of the Longitude or a piece of Watch Work of new Construction that shall go upon Sea as regular as the best Pendulum Clock Shall go on Land By Mr Laurans'
37 - 'Remarks on Some attempts made towards a perpetual Motion' by John Desaguliers
38 - 'Observations of the Variation of the compass in the Western and Atlantick Ocean made in the Year 1706 on board the Dartmouth Man of War By Mr John Maxwell'
39 - 'Ad Phosphorum ex Cerebro conficiendum' by Dr Steighertal
40 - Account of an experiment to show descent of bodies with uniform motion
41 - 'Mercury in the Barometer' by J Desaguliers
42 - 'Experiments made upon the Bile of persons dead with the Plague' by Dr Deidier
43 - 'Observation of an extraordinary highth [height] of the barometer December 21 1721 by Mr George Graham Watchmaker'
44 - 'Mr Cheselden's Case of a fracture in the Skull'
45 - 'A Description of an Aurora Borealis seen at Cruwys Morehard in Devonshire February 6 1720 By Samuel Cruwys'
46 - 'An account of the Weather both before and after this Phaenomenon' by Samuel Cruwys
47 - 'Description Virtues and Use of a certain Bark call'd in French Du Chaeril and in Latin Cortex Elatherii done into English from the Memoires of the Royal Academy of Sciences with some Observations relating to its history and a Comparison between it and the Cortex Thuris of Dioscorides by J Douglas'
48 - 'Doctor Halley of a Valve near the Drum of the Ear'
49 - 'An account of an Aurora Borealis' by Mr Hadley
50 - 'An account of the manner of bending Planks in his Majesties yards at Deptford etc by a sand heat invented by Captain Cumberland' by Robert Cay
51 - 'The way of proceeding in the Small pox inoculated in New England Communicated by Henry Neuman Esq of the middle Temple'
52 - 'An account of the Quantity of Resin in the Cortex Eleuthariae by Mr John Brown Chymist'
53 - 'A Computation of the Size and number of Animalcules in Adams Seminal Vessels according to the Theory of generation established by Leeuwenhoek, Doctor Garden and others..'
54 - 'Explanation of the Picture describing the manner of Sowing, gathering and drying the Grana or Cochineal done by an Indian [sic] in the Bishoprick of Oaxaca in the Kingdom of Mexico in America'
55 - 'A Relation of a very pestilential Sickness which happen'd on board the Winchester Man of War Anno 1695 by R Harris'
56 - 'An account of a Child with a monstrous Head By Mr East'
57 - 'Observations of the Variation of the Compass on board the Royal African Pacquet in 1721 by Captain Cornwall'
58 - 'Mr John Rogers of Stamford Licentiate in Physick his account of the Worm which came out of his Wifes Ear: which worm he presented to the Royal Society on May 1722 by the hand of Peter Le Neve'
59 - 'An account of Colonel Molesworth's Hourglass by Mr G Graham'
60 - 'An account of two Observations on the Cataract of the Eye, contain'd in a Letter from Signor Antonio Benevoli master Surgeon in the hospital of S Maria Nuova In Florence to Dr Valsalva'
61 - 'Animadversions upon Some Experiments relating to the force of moving Bodies with two new Experiments on the same Subject by the Reverend Doctor Desaguliers'
62 - 'An account of a remarkable Instance of the Infection of the Small pox' by James Jurin
63 - 'An account of Some Experiment made to prove that the force of moving Bodies is proportional to their Velocities' by John Desaguliers
64 - 'Mr Becketts account of three long-liv'd Persons'
65 - Observations of the solar eclipse by Edmond Halley
66 - Observations of the solar eclipse by George Graham in Fleet Street, London
67 - 'An account of an Optical Experiment' by John Desaguliers
68 - 'An account of a new Invention for extinguishing fires'
69 - 'An account of a new Sort of Molosses made of Apples' by Paul Dudley
70 - 'Smelts transplanted' by Paul Dudley
71 - 'An account of the Rattle Snake' by Paul Dudley
72 - 'Some observations upon Vipers on occasion of the foregoing relation' by C J Sprengell
73 - 'An account of a Luxated Shoulder reduced by a newly approv'd machine' by Mr Becket
74 - 'An account of an Aurora Borealis' by J Desaguliers
75 - 'Description of a large fish' by Dr Samuda, Lisbon
76 - Mathemathical propositions with text from Pappus Alexandrinus by Robert Simson
77 - Concerning the herb 'arnica' and its medicinal properties by George Clacius
78 - 'An account of a Catadioptrick telescope made after the Invention of Sir Isaac Newton' by John Hadley
79 - 'A magnetical Experiment made by Mr William Palmer a Mechnick near York communicated by J Desaguliers'
80 - 'A description of some Cannons of a particular contrivance by Monsieur de la Chaumette, associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris'
81 - Account of a Book 'armonia Mensurarum sive analysis et synthesis...' by Roger Cotesium
82 - 'An account of an Experiment to ascertain the proportion of the Expansion of the Liquor in the Thermometer with regard to the Degrees of Heat' by Brook Taylor
83 - 'A Catalogue of Observations of the Variation of the Compass between the Lizard and Cape Passero in Sicily taken by Henry Wilson on board his Majesties Ship Barflour by Command of the honourable Sir George Bing Baronet'
84 - 'A Catalogue of 50 Plants presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries of London. Pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane Baronet President of the College of Physicians and Vice President of the Royal Society'
85 - Concerning cases of longevity in Tiguri by John Jacob Scheuchzer
86 - Summary by William Rutty of the treatise 'Idee generale de L'Economie animale et Observations sur la petite Veroles' by Helvetius, Physician in ordinary to the King of France
87 - 'An account by M Fevry of a monstrous double Birth in Lorrain' communicated by Colin Maclaurin
88 - Translation by Philip Zollman of Fevry's account of Siamese twins from Lorrain
89 - 'Several Instances of Foetuses found in the Cavity of the Abdomen' by Dr Houston
90 - 'Account of Observations made of the Variation of the horizontal Needle at London in the Latter part of the year 1722 and beginning of 1723' by George Graham watchmaker
91 - 'A Resolution taken in a Conference of the Evangelick Body, the 30th of January 1723 concerning the Celebration of Easter for the year 1724' communicated by Dr Steigertahl
92 - 'Observations of the Dipping made at London the beginning of the year 1723' by George Graham
93 - 'Dissertation on the Power of Gravity' by Dr Averani
94 - Account by Dr Stukeley of Frederick Ruysch's book entitled 'Adversariorum Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgicorum Decas'
95 - 'Observations upon dissecting the Body of a Person troubled with the stone' by Dr Perrot Williams at Haverford
96 - 'Account of the Appearance of the Matter of the Small Pox seen thro' a Microscope' by J Desaguliers
97 - 'Account of Roman Vessels found in Hartfordshire' by Simon Deggo
98 - 'Account of an extraordinary Cure by Sweating in hot Turf with a Description of the Indian hot houses' by Paul Dudley
99 - 'Account of a Roman Inscription found at Chichester' by Roger Gale
100 - 'Botanical Description of the flower and Seed Vessel of the Plant call'd Crocus Autumnalis Sativus that produces the true English Saffron of the Shops with a Figure' by James Douglas
101 - 'An attempt to account for the rising and falling of the water of some Ponds near the Sea' by J Desaguliers
102 - 'Account of the Appearance of Mercury passing over the Suns disk on the 29th of October 1723 determining the mean motion and fixing the nodes of that Planets Orb' by Edmond Halley
103 - 'Extract of a letter from Caspar Neumann to Dr Woodward'
104 - Concerning a new colour preparation sent to John Woodward
105 - John G Scheuchzer's account of a book entitled 'Prodromus Crystallographiae De Crystallis improprie...' by Antonio Cappeter
106 - Invitation to carry out meteorological observations by James Jurin
107 - Account of Leeuwenhoek's microscopes and how he made them by Martin Folkes
108 - 'Observations about Wasps and the Difference of their Sexes' by William Derham, Prebendary of Windsor
109 - 'An excretory Duct from the Glandula Renalis extracted from the Giornale di Literati of Venice for the year 1719'
110 - 'Araeometri novi Descriptio et usus' by D G Fahrenheit
111 - 'Account of the Dissection of an Eye with a Cataract' by John Ranby, surgeon
112 - 'Observations made in Italy of a Lunar Eclipse which happen'd the 8th of September 1718 Extracted from Giornale di Literati of Venice'
113 - 'Mr Brown's Experiments for making the Prussian Blew [blue]'
114 - 'Account of some new Experiments relating to the different and sometimes contrary motion of the Sap in Plants and Trees Made by Thomas Fairchild Gardner at Hoxdon'
115 - 'Experimenta et Observationes de congelatione aquae in vacuo' by D G Fahrenheit
116 - 'Observations upon the comet that appear'd in the months of October, November and December 1723' by Reverend Bradley, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford
117 - Concerning a book 'Flores geometrici' by Guido Grandi, Abbot of the Camaldolese
118 - 'Transit of Mercury over the Disk of the Sun observ'd in Fleet Street, London on October 29, 1723' by George Graham
119 - 'Account of the Analysis of several Vegetable Mineral and Animal Substances with some other Experiments' by Christopher White
120 - 'Account of a Dropsy in the left Ovary of a woman aged 58 cured by a large Incision made in the Side of the Abdomen' by Robert Houstoun
121 - 'Further observations relating to the foregoing Case' by Robert Houstoun
122 - Experiment to show that different liquids have different boiling points by D Fahrenheit
123 - Concerning a girl with a prolapsed bladder with a stone by Mr Meyer, surgeon
124 - Account of the dissection of a girl with a prolapsed bladder by Henry Kregel, Minister of Weidel
125 - Concerning the different gravities of different substances by D Fahrenheit
126 - 'Further Observations and Experiments upon the Prussian Blew [blue]' by John Brown, Chymist
127 - Observations of the weather for 1723 by Nicholas Cruquius
128 - Observations of the Island of New Providence made in 1723 by Mr Lightbody, surgeon in the service of the Bahama company communicated by J Douglas
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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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