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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
Expand 13 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-172813 - Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 13, copies of papers communicated 1727-1728
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
Expand 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
Collapse 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
0 - Index, for Register Book 17
1 - Concerning the singing of the cicada in an extract of a letter written in 1717 by Dr John Baptist Felice of Florence to Pascasio Gianetti, lecturer of Physic in Ordinary at the University of Pisa
2 - Concerning John James Scheuchzer's book on the history of plants to Hans Sloane
3 - 'Some observations on a Case lately published in Philosophical Transactions by Dr Stewart communicated to Dr Mortimer'
4 - Observations of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites for 1731 by Edmund Weaver communicated by William Stukeley
5 - 'Description of an Instrument to shew the difference between the true and Apparent horizon' by Stephen Plank
6 - Description of a Dial invented by William Ross of Hanly Castle in the county of Worcester
7 - 'Description and Use of an improv'd equinoctial Dial for shewing the hour by the Sun or any of the Stars, with great Exactness Contrived and finish'd Anno 1727 by Richard Graham'
8 - 'Account of a Book intitled Catalogue des Ouvrages de Mr Fourmont l'Aine etc' by John Eames
9 - 'Some Remarks occasion'd by Doctor Madden's Account of the noxious quality of the distill'd Water of the Lauro cerasus' communicated in a letter to Philip Miller by Charles Alston
10 - 'An account of a remarkable Seeming Alteration in the Size and Shape of objects at a distance occasion'd by the Exhalations from the Earth by Peter Collinson'
11 - 'An account of Dr Frobenius's Experiment upon the Phosphorus' by Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz
12 - Concerning a brass statue found at Circencester by J Master
13 - Account of a murrain among cattle in Switzerland by Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane
14 - Additions to Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz's paper on phosphorus
15 - 'An account of a pretended Shower of Wheat' in a letter from William Stukeley to Roger Gale
16 - 'Account of the Ruins of an ancient City near Naples 30 feet underground' from John Green to William Sloane
17 - 'A Remark on a particular Load stone' by John Eames
18 - Account of a large skull of an ox with cores of horns, of a 'Plica Polonica' and of a tumour of man's eye' from James Theodore Klein to Hans Sloane
19 - Account of a woman who died of 'hydrops ovarii' when she was 33 years old from John Belchier, surgeon, to Cromwell Mortimer
20 - Account of an earthquake in China
21 - Account of an earthquake in 1253 on the west side of the River Euphrates from the travel book of William de Rubriquis
22 - John Eames' account of a book entitled 'Dissertationes Physico-mathematicae etc' by James Jurin
23 - Meteorological-barometrical-thermometrical ephemerides from Peter van Muschenbroek
24 - Account of the aurora borealis from J Frider. Weidler's meteorological journal
25 - 'Account of some magnetical Experiments' by John Theophilus Desaguliers
26 - 'Account of the Foramen ovale being found open in an Adult' by Claudius Amyand, surgeon to his majesty
27 - Concerns the treatment of smallpox in ancient China by Father Dentrecolle in his letter to Father du Halde
28 - Account of the method of determining the properties of mineral waters together with a catalogue of fossils by Thomas Short to Hans Sloane
29 - 'Some account of the experiments made on the distilled water of Lauro-cerasus from a letter of Andrew Cantwell to Thomas Stack
30 - 'Conjectures upon the Nature of intermitting and reciprocating Springs' by Joseph Atwell
31 - 'An attempt towards finding out a way to render Electrical Attraction permanent in Bodies' by Stephen Gray, Charterhouse
32 - 'An Account of an Inscription in unknown Characters found on a Rock in Taunton River in New England' by Isaac Greenwood in his letter to John Eames
33 - 'Proposals for making Anatomies of human Bodies in colour'd wax after the manner of those belonging to the Sieur Desnoues' by Abraham Chovet, surgeon
34 - Account of 'water of locusts' by Dr Stuart to Cromwell Mortimer
35 - Experiments to show fluid in nerves by Alexander Stuart
36 - 'Explanation of an Essay on the Use of the Bile in the Animal Oeconomy by Alexander Stuart
37 - On the thermal qualities of the waters at Baden by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
38 - Concerning the effects of cold by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
39 - Concerning a large kidney stone by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
40 - Observations of an aurora borealis by John James Scheuchzer from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
41 - Barometric observations to determine the height of Mount Gothard by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
42 - Account of earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring countries in 1728 and 1729 by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
43 - Concerning lightning at Mellingense by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
44 - Account of a white iris seen in the sky by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
45 - Account of an insect resembling a cricket found at Baden by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
46 - Account of a spring at Schonholzerchweil by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
47 - Concerning an unusual serpent ('draconum') found in Switzerland by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
48 - Continuing the study of using barometric observations to determine the height of Mons Gothard by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
49 - Observations of cataracts by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
50 - Glacial dendrites by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
51 - Kidney membrane from the uretera of a pig by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
52 - Some rare crystals from Switzerland by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
53 - Account of an earthquake in Switzerland in 1729 by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia', sent to Hans Sloane
54 - Account of Christina Kratzerin who lived without nourishment for nearly three years by John James Scheuchzer
55 - Experiments from Herzogio and Knechtio
56 - Concerning the salt from the baths at Baden by John James Scheuchzer
57 - Concerning salt crystals by John James Scheuchzer
58 - Worms in a weasel's pelt by John James Scheuchzer
59 - Concerning flies and gnats at Baden by John James Scheuchzer
60 - Concerning the roots of contrayervae by John James Scheuchzer
61 - Anatomy of a male badger by John James Scheuchzer
62 - Observations of the lunar eclipse witnessed at Lucerne on 29 February 1729 by John James Scheuchzer
63 - Concerning a 'mola vesiculosae' in the omasum of an ox by John James Scheuchzer, from a collection of papers entitled 'Otia aestivalia' sent to Hans Sloane
64 - Details of a case where a woman was bitten by a man by John James Scheuchzer
65 - 'Physico-medical observations on the latter part of the 1729 to the beginning of 1730 in a letter from Dr Scheuchzer to Hans Sloane
66 - Details of an epidemic in Europe by John James Scheuchzer
67 - The iris of an aurora borealis witnessed in February 1730 by John James Scheuchzer
68 - Meteorological observations for March to December 1730 by John James Scheuchzer
69 - Treatise on ambergris by Casper Neumann, Professor of Chemistry at Berlin
70 - Remarks by John Brown, chemist, on Casper Neumann's treatise on ambergris
71 - Experiments with ambergris for Hans Sloane by Ambrose Godfrey Hanckewitz, chemist
72 - Description of a new instrument for taking angles by John Hadley
73 - Edmond Halley's 'account of the progress he made in observing the Moon's Motion whereby he proposes to be able to find the Longitude at Sea within a Degree or 20 Leagues'
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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