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1 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-1662

2i - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663

2ii - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2ii, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663

3 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668

4 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675

5 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 5, copies of papers communicated 1675-1680

6 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687

7 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 7, copies of papers communicated 1687-1698

8 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-1700

9 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-1707

10 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 10

11 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 11, copies of papers communicated 1720-1724

12 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-1727

13 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-1728

0 - Index, for Register Book 13

1 - Discussing the lower abdomen of the alpine mouse by J G Scheuchzer

2 - To show how damp or stale air might be drawn out from a coal-pit or any sort of mine, well or subterraneous cavern by an engine designed by Dr Desaguliers

3 - Observations of the Aurora Borealis or 'Streaming' on 8 October 1726 by William Derham

4 - 'The same Aurora Borealis observed at Southwick in Northamptonshire by George Lynn'

5 - 'An account of a Tract de hyrometris et corum defectibus' by Martin Folkes

6 - 'An Account of Elephant's teeth and Bones found underground' by Hans Sloane

7 - Of fossil teeth and bones of elephants by Hans Sloane

8 - 'Remarks upon the Dissections lately published at Paris by the Reverend P Souciet against Sir Isaac Newton'

9 - 'Some further Remarks on P Souciet's Dissertation against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology in a letter to Dr Jurin by Dr Halley'

10 - 'Two Chirurgical Questions stated and answer'd by John Douglas, Surgeon'

11 - 'An account of some Experiments on the effects of Poyson [poison] of the Rattle Snake by Captain Hall'

12 - 'Remarks upon some experiments in Hydraulics, which seem to prove the forces of Equal moving Bodies are the Squares of their velocities' by John Eames

13 - Details of a child who had a tumour in his mouth by Peter Hardisway

14 - 'A curious Dissertation concerning the Causes of the Power and Effects of Musick' by Robert Hooke communicated by William Derham

15 - 'The Anatomy of the poisonous Apparatus of a Rattle Snake made by the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' and 'an Account of the quick Effects of the Poison by John Ranby'

16 - Details of an earthquake in New England

17 - 'A Summary Account by Dr Brook Taylor of a new System of Musick by M Rameau formerly Organist of the Cathedral Church of Clermont in Auvergne'

18 - 'An account of a Machine for measuring any Depth in the Sea with great Expedition and Certainty' shown to the Royal Society by J Desaguliers

19 - 'Of the Invention of Optick Glasses, Telescopes, Spectacles etc' by Benjamin La Motte

20 - 'An account of Several Stones taken out of the Stomach of a horse' by Dr Scheuchzer

21 - Observations of human anatomy by Mr Ranby

22 - Lunar and solar eclipses witnessed at Vera Cruz by Joseph Harris, communicated by Edmond Halley

23 - 'An account of the Cinnamon Tree in Ceylon and its several Sorts communicated by the Chief Inspector of the Cinnamon Trade and manufacture in that Island to Albertus Seba, a noted Druggist at Amsterdam'

24 - Concerning the eye with a cataract from a letter of Dr Walthier Rhaeti to Dr Scheuchzer

25 - Account of the vegetation of the coconut by Philip Miller to Dr Douglas

26 - 'Of two stones found in the Omatum of a horse at Kettering in Northamptonshire by Benjamin La Motte'

27 - 'The Description of a new species of 'Lilio narcissus" by James Douglas

28 - An account of an experiment to show a syphon running in vacuo by J Desaguliers

29 - 'The case of Robert Bryant of Bolesdale in the county of Suffolk' by H Stebbing, rector of Garboldsham, in a letter to William Rutty

30 - Rules for finding the number of impossible roots in equations from Mr Campbell at Edinburgh

31 - Four new discoveries to be registered

32 - 'An account of an Aneurism [aneurysm] dissected by Mr Edward Nourse Surgeon with some Observations thereupon' by William Rutty

33 - 'Some Account of the Spanish Scorpion' by Dr James Douglas

34 - Observations of the solar eclipse witnessed in Rome on 15 September 1727 by John Baptiste Carbone

35 - Astronomical observations from John Baptista Carbone transmitted by Isaac de Sequeira Samuda

36 - Observations of the solar eclipse witnessed at Bologna on 14 September 1727 by Eustachio Manfredi

37 - Observations of the sun witnessed in October 1727 by John Poleni

38 - Observations of the solar eclipse on 15 Spetember 1727 at Toulon by P Laval

39 - Observations of the transit of Venus with the moon witnessed at Toulon on 18 September 1727 by P Laval

40 - Observations of the satellites of Jupiter in 1727

41 - Astronomical observations from Peking by Ignatius Kogler

41a - Selected astronomical observations from Ingostadt by Ignatius Kogler

42 - Account of fungus from the distilled water of plants by J Scheuchzer

43 - Account of the aurora borealis witnessed at Florence on 19 October 1726 by Bartholomew Beccari

44 - 'The Astronomical Passage of a Lumen Boreale as observ'd at Bologna March 4 1727 by Eustachio Manfredi'

45 - Translation of the observations of the lumen borealis seen at Bologna on 14 March 1727 by Eustachio Manfredi

46 - 'An account of an Aneurysm in the Curvature of the aorta dissected by Mr E Nourse'

47 - 'A remarkable Case of an Aneurism [aneurysm] from the Memories of the Royal Academy of Sciences' by J Douglas

48 - 'Some Difference in Opinions concerning the causes of Aneurisms [aneurysms]' by Dr Stuart

49 - 'Some Observations on aneurisms [aneurysms] in general and in particular on the foregoing' by F Nicholls

50 - 'An Essay upon Glass and the several Uses of it among the Ancients with some Remarks upon a Dissertation of M Valois' by Charles Lamotte

51 - 'Experiments on Iron and its Oar [ore] by the Magnet in the year 1724 and 1725 by John Payne whereby it appears to him that the Power of Attraction between Iron and the Magnet is a Property produced by Art'

52 - Four accounts of the Aurora Borealis seen on 19 October 1726

53 - 'An account of some uncommon Anastomoses of the Spermatic Vessels in a Woman observ'd by Cromwell Mortimer'

54 - 'An abstract of several Letters from different Parts of Europe relating to the Aurora Borealis seen on 19 October 1726 by William Rutty'

55 - 'An account of several Strata of Earths and Fossils found in sinking the Mineral Wells at Holt by the Reverend Mr Lewis Vicar of the Place Communicated by John Brome'

56 - 'An account of several Stones found in the Kidneys of a Person open'd by Mr John Dobyns, Surgeon and Lithotomist to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital'

57 - 'An account of the Specifick Gravities of three several Pieces of Dr Nicholls Tin Ore' by Mr Francis Hauksbee'

58 - 'The Anatomical preparation of Vegetables' by Albertus Seba

59 - 'Extract of two uncommon Cases of Tumors of the Abdomen' by William Rutty

60 - Dr Mortimer's account of a Book intituled Fossils of all Kinds .... ' by John Woodward

61 - 'An account of an Experiment to be tried before the Society this Evening' by J Desaguliers

62 - Details of optical experiments made at the Royal Society in August 1728

63 - 'Account of the Culture and Management of Saffron in England' by James Douglas

64 - Account of a Book intitled 'Premier Recueil de Lecons de Mathematique ...'

65 - Isaac Rand's account of the first Decade of a Book entitled 'Joannis Martyn Historia Plantarum rariorum: printed at London by Richard Reily 1728' presented to the Royal Society by the author

66 - J Desaguliers' account of a Book intitled 'Traite de la Taille au haut Appareil...'

67 - 'Method of making Tin Plates extracted from the Memoires of the Academy of Sciences for the Year 1725 by William Rutty'

68 - 'An account of a Treatise of the Abbe de Molieres intitled: a Physical and mechanical Explication of the Percussion of elastic Bodies' by Benjamin Robins

69 - 'A Draught of a large American Aloe which blossom'd at Frankfort on the Mein, in the Garden of M Eberhardt Burgermaster of that Place' by Dr Scheuchzer

70 - Concerns cutting the sarcoma or fleshy excrescence of the uterus without danger of life with the woman restored to her former health by John Ranby

71 - Observations of the motion of fixed stars from a letter from the Reverend Mr James Bradley Savllian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford to Edmond Halley

72 - 'A Catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1727' by Isaac Rand

73 - 'A further Account of a new machine call'd the marine Surveyor design'd for the Mensuration of the Way of a Ship at Sea more correctly than by the Log at present in Use, or any other Method hitherto invented for that Purpose by M Henry de Saumarez of the Island of Guernsey, part of his Majesties ancient Dutchy of Normandy'

74 - Account of an epidemy of painful colic which occurred in 1724 by John Huxham of Plymouth

75 - Treatise on the causes of gravity sent by J F Bachstrohm

76 - 'Some Account of the Mines in Cornwall by Frank Nicholls'

77 - Observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites from 1700 to the year 1727 with comments about them by William Derham

78 - Account of how to measure the area of spherical triangles by Belidor

79 - Observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites in a letter from Eustachio Manfredi to William Rutty

80 - 'The construction of the famous annular Eclipse of the Sun at London March 21 1764 from Astro. Car. Ed. 3 in a letter from Mr Joseph Smith to Edmond Halley'

81 - Dr Scheuchzer's account of a book containing material from learned men in Italy about the origin of springs and rivers

82 - 'Reflections on M de l'Isles comparison of Paris with London' in a letter from Peter Davall of the Middle Temple to William Rutty

83 - 'Extract of a letter to the Publisher of 'Philosophical Transactions' from Monsieur de l'Isle Astronomer Royal at Petersbourg containing his Observations of the Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites from July 10 1726 to April 12 1728 taken at that Place'

84 - A second account of observations on composing a natural history of mines and metals by Frank Nicholls

85 - Dissertation about how to relieve gout by Michele Pinelli

86 - Translation of an extract of Pinelli's paper on treating gout by J Scheuchzer

87 - Concerning the villi of the stomach of oxen in a letter from Charles Price, Trinity College, Oxford

88 - Extract of a paper by John Boecleri about women with swollen abdomens

89 - Details of sinking land at Lymne in Kent in a letter from P Collinson

90 - 'Extract from a Letter of Doctor Eustachio Manfredi of Bologna to Sir Thomas Dereham relating to Rizzetti's Book against Sir Isaac Newton'

91 - 'Account of Remarks lately publish'd in Germany by an anonymous Author, concerning Pyrmont Waters in answer to a Treatise wrote by Dr Slare' by Conrad Sprengell

92 - 'An Account of a Book entitled: Vegetable Staticks, or an Account of some Statical experiments on the Sap in Vegetables; being an Essay towards a natural history of Vegetation' by Stephen Hales

93 - 'The Barometrical Method of measuring the height of Mountains with two new Tables shewing the height of the Atmosphere at given Altitudes of Mercury. Extracted chiefly from the Observations of John James Scheuchzer by John Gaspar Scheuchzer'

94 - 'Remarks on the height of Mountains in general and those of Swisserland [Switzerland] in particular; with an account of the Rise of some of the most considerable Rivers of Europe' by J G Scheuchzer

95 - 'An Account of some Observations made by a young Gentleman who was born blind, or lost his Sight so early that he had no remembrance of ever having seen and was couched between 13 and 14 years of Age' by William Cheselden, surgeon to her majesty

96 - Explanation of the instruments used in the new operation on the eyes by William Cheselden

14 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730

15 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 15, copies of papers communicated 1730-1731

16 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732

17 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732

18 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-1734

19 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 19, copies of papers communicated 1734-1736

20 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1736-1737

21 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1737-1739

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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