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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
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
Collapse 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
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1 - 'An account of a Comet in a Letter to Doctor Halley from Mr John Dove on board the Monmouth in Table Bay
2 - 'Account of an uncommon Form of a Chicken' in a letter to John Eames from Evan Davies, Haverford West
3 - 'Account of a suddain violent Blast of Wind', in a letter from J Derby, dated at Minternmagna, to Henry Sheppard
4 - Account of a worm from Holland by G Sellius
5 - Account of a flying squirrel by James Theodore Klein
6 - 'Observations of Latitudes and variation taken on board the Hartford in her passage from Java-head to St Helena in 1731' by Edmond Halley
7 - 'Further account of Experiments relating to Electrical Attraction' in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer to Stephen Gray, Charterhouse
8 - Eclipse of the Moon observed in Fleet Street London on the night of 20 November 1732 by George Graham
9 - John Eames's 'a short Account of Dr Jurin's ninth and last dissertation: 'De vi motrice"
10 - 'Account of an Experiment contrived by Doctor Gravesande, Professor at Leyden, relating to the force of moving Bodies, now to be shown to the Royal Society by J Desaguliers
11 - Testimonial 'of a trial of George Reynoldson's hydrographical machine for measuring a Ships way at Sea between London and Gravesend'
12 - 'An account of Doctor Clifton's book intitled: The State of Physick ancient and modern briefly consider'd with a Plan for the improvement of it' by William Graeme
13 - 'A Proposition in Gunnery wherein is laid down a method of reducing a large piece of Ordnance of Cannon to a moderate Size' by John Allen
14 - Comments about the paper on gunnery with improvements by John Allen
15 - Concerns the use of 'Ipecacuanha' in France by William Cockburn after reading Monsieur Jussieu's 'Memoire'
16 - Account of the halo observed at Rome on 11 August 1732 by Thomas Dereham
17 - 'Extract of Doctor Timoni's history of the small Pox by Inoculation found among Dr le Duc's posthumous Papers, and communicated by Dr Horseman'
18 - 'A journal of meteorological Observations made at Petersburgh by the Reverend Mr Thomas Consett' extracted by Dr Derham
19 - 'Account of the cure of the Gout by Oils externally apply'd with an hypothesis on the cause of the Distemper conformable to this Practice' by Willilam Stukeley in his letter to Hans Sloane
20 - 'The Case of a Man who was poison'd by eating Monks-hood or Napellus' by Vincent Bacon
21 - 'Proposals for the Improvement of the history of Russia ...' by Gerhard-Friderich-Muller
22 - 'An account of the damp Air at Saltom Pitt' by Sir James Lowther
23 - 'An Account of some magnetical Observations made in the months of May, June and July 1732 in the Atlantick or Western Ocean: as also the Description of a Water-Spout' by Joseph Harris
24 - 'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1731: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand
25 - Immersions and emersions of the satellites of Jupiter witnessed in Peking by Ignatius Kegler and Andrea Pereira [Jesuit missionaries] in November 1730
26 - 'Mr Zollman's Account of a book intitled: De Bononiensi Scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academica'
27 - 'Description of a Barometer wherein the Scale of Variation may be increased at pleasure' by John Rowning, fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, communciated by Dr Smith
28 - 'An account of a Book intitled: Christiani Ludovici Gersten Tentamina Systematis novi ad mutationes Barometri ex natura elateris aereii demonstrandas... '
29 - Trial of the instrument for taking Angles by John Hadley
30 - 'A further Account of an Instrument for taking Angles etc in a postscript to the Account of Observations made on board the Chatham' by John Hadley
31 - 'A new Scheme for keeping of an account of Time in order to find the Longitude at Sea' by Captain John Wall
32 - 'An Abstract of a Book intitled: A short account of Mortifications, and the surprizing effect of the Bark in putting a Stop to their progress etc by John Douglas, Surgeon'
33 - Four papers by Henry Beighton
34 - Concerning the use of Peruvian bark to treat gangrene by John Shipton
35 - Abstract of meteorological observations from Berlin and Sweden by William Derham
36 - Account of the instrument to show the different velocities of a planet or comet in its motion around the sun by J Desaguliers
37 - 'An Account of Experiments proving the communication of electrical attraction at a distance without any Contact' by Stephen Gray
38 - Meteorological observations from Italy, India and Norway in 1727, communicated to the Royal Society by Peter Kinck, and abridged by William Derham
39 - 'The Case of a Cataleptic Woman' by Mr Reynell
40 - 'Observations of the appearances among the fixt Stars called Nebulous Stars' by William Derham
41 - 'Description of an Instrument for shewing the Latitude at Sea without the Horizon' by Stephen Planck [Plank]
42 - 'Observation of the Eclipse of the Sun on May 2 1733 in the afternoon by Mr George Graham in Fleet Street made with a Telescope of ten feet in length fitted with a Micrometer'
43 - 'An Account of a large bony Substance found in the Womb' by Edward Hody
44 - 'Conjectures for what purpose a Ring is given to Saturn' by J P Biester
45 - Doctor Mortimer's account of the R P Du Hald's proposals for printing a geographical and historical account of China
46 - Abstract of meteorological observations from Germany, England and Sweden by William Derham
47 - Account of a Book by Johannes Philippus Breynius entitled 'Dissertatio Physica de Polythalamics nova Testaceorum classe' or a Physical Dissertation of a new Class of Shell called 'Polythalamium'
48 - 'Continuation of an account of Mr Mark Catesby's Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands with some Extracts out of the fifth Sett' by Cromwell Mortimer
49 - Concerning a very large cow which was killed at the Hague by R Paul
50 - 'Of the Obstruction of the Biliary Ducts and an impostumation of the Gall Bladder' by Mr Amyand
51 - 'Some Observations on the Case of Mr La Grange' by Alexander Stuart
52 - 'An account of things performed by real, and by pretended strong men' by John Desaguliers
53 - Richard Graham's explanation of how a man could move a stone weighing 800 pounds using a frame communicated by John Desaguliers
54 - Concerning the movement of a clock in order to determine the difference between the lengths of Isochronal Pendulums in London and Jamaica communicated by James Bradley
55 - Table showing configurations of Jupiter's four satellites when their eclipses are visible in London in 1734 by James Hodgson
56 - 'Twelve Propositions concerning the figure of the Earth' by James Stirling
57 - 'An Account of Experiments and Observations on bulbous Roots, Plants and Seeds growing in Water' by William Curteis
58 - Scheme to show solar eclipses by J F Weidler
59 - 'Account of a distemper'd Blood, containing a white thick Liquor, resembling Chyle, instead of Serum' by Alexander Stuart
60 - 'Account of a Spirit Level to be fix'd to a Quadrant for taking a meridional Altitude at Sea when the Horizon is not visible' by John Hadley
61 - 'Description of the Planetarium' by Doctor Desaguliers
62 - 'Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1732: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand
63 - 'An Account of Symptoms arising from eating the Seeds of Henbane with their Cure, and some occasional Remarks' by Hans Sloane
64 - 'An Account of a Book intitled Le Spectacle de la Nature ou entretiens sur les particularites de l'Histoire naturelle. Premiere partie' drawn up by Cromwell Mortimer
65 - 'An account of Mr Cheselden's Osteographia or Anatomy of the bones' by Mr Belchier
66 - James Hodgson's 'Report of Mr John Hamilton's abridgement of his Treatise of Stereography'
67 - Descriptions of six new discoveries presented to the Royal Society by Isaac de la Chaumettexxx
68 - Mr Eames's Account of a Book intitled 'Traite Physique et historique de l'Aurore boreale' by Monsieur de Mairan
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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