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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
Expand 2i - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-16632i - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 2i, copies of papers communicated 1662-1663
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Expand 3 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-16683 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
Expand 4 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-16754 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675
Expand 5 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 5, copies of papers communicated 1675-16805 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 5, copies of papers communicated 1675-1680
Expand 6 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-16876 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 6, copies of papers communicated 1685-1687
Expand 7 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 7, copies of papers communicated 1687-16987 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 7, copies of papers communicated 1687-1698
Expand 8 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-17008 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-1700
Expand 9 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-17079 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 9, copies of papers communicated 1699-1707
10 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 10
Expand 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
Expand 12 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-172712 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 12, copies of papers communicated 1724-1727
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Expand 14 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-173014 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730
Expand 15 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 15, copies of papers communicated 1730-173115 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 15, copies of papers communicated 1730-1731
Collapse 16 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-173216 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 16, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
0 - Index, for Register Book 16
1 - Engraving of a plan of a Roman amphitheatre in Umbria
2 - Concerning a hazelstick swallowed by a horse which came out of his side after some time
3 - 'An account of the Gold Mines in Brazil belonging to the King of Portugal communicated in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer by Jacob de Castro Sarmento
4 - 'Of the mixture of Bleu [blue] and white Peas in one Pod' by Reverend Henchman, the Prebendary of Sarum, to Joseph Ayloffe
5 - 'Of some ancient Inscriptions' in a letter to the Reverend John Villa by Mr La Croze
6 - Dr Houston's account of some plants from la Vera Cruz, with details of the cochineal harvest in Mexico
7 - Relating to the instantaneous freezing of water, giving an account of tulips and other bulbous plants flowering much sooner when placed in bottles filled with water than those planted in the ground by Marten Triewald
8 - Account of some experiments to show the flowering of tulips, narcissi etc in winter by placing their bulbs upon glasses of water by Marten Triewald
9 - 'Account of the Aurora Borealis seen in New England on 22 October 1730 by Isaac Greenwood, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in New England
10 - 'Account of the same aurora borealis by Mr Richard Lewis'
11 - 'Account of two women being poison'd by the simple distill'd Water of Laurel Leaves and of several Experiments upon Dogs' by Thomas Madden, MD of Dublin
12 - 'A new and exact Table collected from Several Observations taken from the Year 1721 to 1729 in nine Voyages to Hudson's Bay, North America by Captain C Middleton showing variation of the compass communicated by Benjamin Robins'
13 - 'An account of the praeternatural Delivery of a Foetus at the Anus' communicated by Edward Nourse, surgeon at St Bartholomew
14 - Account of a polypus resembling a branch of a pulmonary vein coughed up by an asthmatic person by Frank Nicholls
15 - Account of an uncommon cure for violent vomiting of blood communicated by Pietro Michelotti
16 - Account of the preceeding case of how violent vomiting of blood was cured by F Clifton
17 - An account of a treatise by M A Cappeller on the natural history of Mount Pilatus in Switzerland, taken from the Latin by Cromwell Mortimer
18 - 'An account of a Book entitled of the portable Laboratory by Peter Shaw and Francis Hauksbee' by John Henry Hampe
19 - 'The Description of an anchor invented by Mr da Camus Gentleman of Lorraine'
20 - 'An account of the contrayerva by William Houstoun Surgeon in the Service of the honorable South Sea Company'
21 - Several meteorological observations with comments by William Derham
22 - 'Examination of an Indian blew [blown] stone' by Mr A Godfrey
23 - 'The method of making the best Mortar at Madrass in East India communicated to Dr Halley by Isaac Pyke'
24 - Recommending the Duke of Lorraine and Count Kingski to the Royal Society by the Duke of Richmond in his letter to Sir Hans Sloane
25 - 'Lunaris Corona Romae observata Anno 1731' by Didacus de Revillas
26 - Account of Breynius's book about the natural history of 'Cocci radicum tinctorii' by Richard Middleton
27 - 'An account of a part of the left horn of a Stag drawn out of Ravens Barrow hold adjoining to holker Old Park by the net of a Fisherman on 20 June 1727' by J Hopkins in a letter to John Senex
28 - 'An account of an Experiment on Light and colours' communicated in a letter to Sir Hans Sloane by Marten Triewald
29 - Account of a storm that happened at Prestbury in Gloucestershire on 24 May 1731 by Reverend Francis Weller to William Derham
30 - 'An account of a book [by Philip Miller] entitled: 'The Gardener's Kalender, directing what works are necessary to be done every month...' by John Martyn
31 - 'A method for finding the contents of a Triangle'
32 - 'A description of an Instrument for finding the Latitude from two observations at any time of the Day' by Richard Graham
33 - Concerning an extraordinary impostumation of the liver by Thomas Short in a letter to Hans Sloane
34 - 'A Continuation of an Account of Mr Mark Catesby's Essay towards the natural history of Carolina and the Bahama Islands, with some Extracts out of the fourth Sett' by Cromwell Mortimer
35 - Concerning J P Biester's instrument to measure longitude at sea
36 - 'An account of a new Instrument for finding the Latitude etc mechanically and by inspection only' by Andrew Reid in a letter to John Machin
37 - 'An account of an uncommon Accident by Fire by the Marquis Massei Casena'
38 - 'Some Experiments concerning the poisonous quality of the simple Water distill'd from the Lauro-cerasus or common Laurel made upon Dogs at Toppingo Hall in Essex' by Cromwell Mortimer
39 - 'An account of the Experiment tried upon a Dog with Laurel Water in the presence of Several members of the Royal Society in their Repository upon Thursday October 20 1731 by Cromwell Mortimer'
40 - Observation of the solar eclipse on 15 July 1730 witnessed at Peking by Ignatius Kegler and Andrew Pereyra
41 - Immersions and emersions of the satellites of Jupiter observed in Peking by Ignatius Kegler and Andrew Pereyra
42 - 'An account of a monstrous Boy' in a letter from Andrew Cantwell to Thomas Stack
43 - Account of some curiosities from Cumberland by Sir John Clark, one of the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland, to Roger Gale
44 - Concerning a man who slept for maximum 30 minutes per day for 20 years before his death
45 - 'The Description of a new Quadrant for Altitudes either on Sea or Land call'd Elton's Quadrant' by Captain J Elton communicated by James Hodgson
46 - 'An Extract of Observations of the Latitude from the Journal of Captain Walter Hoxton Commander of the ship Baltimore from the River of Thames to Mary Land on the continent of America by Davis's (or the common) Quadrant, with the horizon, and without the horizon by Elton's a new invented quadrant, described in the foregoing Paper'
47 - Concerning the case of a foetus being cut out of the groin extracted from a book entitled 'La veritable Chirurgie...'
48 - 'An account of West Ashton mineral Water' by Thomas Beach
49 - 'An examination of the foregoing Waters' by Ambrose Godfrey
50 - 'Scheme of a collection of medical Essays and observations proposed to be published yearly at Edinburgh by a Society'
51 - 'Of the Electricity of Water' in a letter from Stephen Gray, Charterhouse, to Cromwell Mortimer
52 - 'De Camphora Thymi' by Carl Neumann
53 - Concerning an earthquake in Northampton by Reverend J Wasse, rector of Aynho in Northamptonshire
54 - Meteorological observations by John Marchionus sent to James Jurin
55 - Concerning an 'arcuccio' from a letter by Oliver St John
56 - 'The Anatomy of a Female Beaver, and an account of Castor found in her' by Cromwell Mortimer
57 - Account of a book by James Paisley entitled 'Treatise on harmony'
58 - 'An account of a Company of curious Persons sent by the King of Poland into Africa, in order to enquire into the natural history of those parts' by Cromwell Mortimer
59 - Concerning the magnetical qualitites of iron from an abstract of a letter by Arnold Marcel (nephew of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek) to the Royal Society
60 - 'An account of a Person who for two years could not swallow any Liquid' communicated by Theophilus Lobb to Cromwell Mortimer
61 - Meteorological observations from Hudson's Bay by Captain Christopher Middleton in his letter to Benjamin Robins
62 - 'Description of an universal Dial' by Joseph Jackson and George Adams
63 - 'Description of an Instrument for taking heights and distances at Sea' by Stephen Plank
64 - 'An Account of an uncommon Death' in a letter from Christopher Wolff to the late William Rutty
65 - Mathematical tract with two propositions about fluid bodies in rotation upon an axis by Monsieur Maupertius, Royal Academy of Paris
Expand 17 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-173217 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 17, copies of papers communicated 1731-1732
Expand 18 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-173418 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 18, copies of papers communicated 1732-1734
Expand 19 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 19, copies of papers communicated 1734-173619 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 19, copies of papers communicated 1734-1736
Expand 20 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1736-173720 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1736-1737
Expand 21 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1737-173921 - 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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