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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

1 - 'A Discourse about the Calculus Humanus' made by Frederick Slare

2 - 'Table of the Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter Calculated for the year 1684' by John Flamsteed with instructions for its use

3 - Several observations of salty water by Martin Lister

4 - Details of a magnetical experiment by Thomas Henshaw

5 - 'Experiments of Heat upon Magneticall Bodies' by Mr Pagit

6 - 'Of the Dilatation of Water by Cold before it becomes Ice and is yett all Fluid, at least as to Sense: And that Glass does not shrink with Cold' by William Croone

7 - 'Experiments about Freezing' by Frederick Slare

8 - 'Of the Quicksilver rising and falling in the Barometer; And what may be gathered from its great rise in frosty weather' by Martin Lister

9 - 'Tables of Sands and Clays' by Martin Lister

10 - Details of a number of experiments by Robert Hooke

11 - Experiments by Frederick Slare

12 - 'A Paper of Queries concerning the splitting of Trees by the Last Frost' sent by Robert Plot to Viscount Weymouth

13 - 'An Account of the Course of the Tides at Tonqueen in a Letter from Mr Francis Davenport'

14 - 'A Cement for the coating of Cisterns' communicated by Martin Lister

15 - 'An Account of a Spott seen in the Sun from the 25 of Aprill to the 8th of May instant with the line of its Course predicted if it make a second Returne' by John Flamsteed

16 - 'Description and use of the Pores in the Skin of the Hands and Feet' by Nehemiah Grew

17 - 'Experiments to be made Relating to Land-Carriage' Proposed by Sir William Petty

18 - 'Discourse concerning Sepulchrall Lamps' by Robert Plot

19 - 'An Account of Experiments and discourses made before the Royal Society' by Robert Hooke

20 - 'Some Experiments about Freezing, and the Difference betwixt common fresh Water Ice, and that of Sea Water: Also a probable conjecture about the Originall of the Niter of Aegypt' by Martin Lister

21 - 'Some Observations on Boyling Fountains and Subterraneous Streams' by Tancred Robinson

22 - Details of two experiments by Dr Papin: 'Some Alteration or Improvement in his Pnewmatick Engin' and 'Of the Air's driving the water in an Exhausted Bolt-head in a Cylindrical Form'

23 - Dr Papin's experiment 'upon petrified Wood calcined applying to the Lodestone or tinging with Galls'

24 - Dr Papin's experiment of making Pitch or Turpentine penetrate into Plaster or Wood

25 - Dr Papin's Experiment for the swelling the Lungs, Kidney 'in Vacuo'

26 - Dr Papin's Experiment of driving Plaister into the Lungs And An Instrument for drying the parts of the Body, when they are most swelled 'in vacuo'

27 - Dr Papin's Experiment to examine the specific Gravity of the Air comparatively to water and what effect Heat and moisture hath on the gravity of Air

28 - Dr Papin's Experiments of dissolving Iron in the Open Air and 'in vacuo'

29 - Dr Papin's Experiment of the Suspension of water purged of Air in a Pipe

30 - Dr Papin's Experiment about the Adhesion of a Glass Cover to an Exhausted Receiver against the pretended Attraction 'motu vacui'

31 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment made at Mr Boyls About suspending water in a Bolt-head'

32 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment About air caused by a Dissolving body in a Florence Flask'

33 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment with Soap and Salt water (for washing linnen at Sea) by dissolving them in the Digesting Engin'

34 - Another Experiment by Dr Papin about the Suspension of Water 'in vacuo' made at Mr Boyle's

35 - Dr Papin's Experiment about softening the Box and Lignum Vitae in the Digesting Engine

36 - Dr Papin's Experiments in the digester for taking Impression in Relief

37 - Dr Papin's Experiments on Horn in the Digester - a further trial

38 - Dr Papin's experiments in the Vacation time during the Recess of the Royal Society

39 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment with the Muscle of a Man 'in vacuo' etc and a mercury gage to find the Quantity of Air Produced' from the muscle

40 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment to prove that suction proceeds from the pressure of the Air'

41 - 'About the Suspension of Mercury in a Tube higher then 31 Inches' by Denis Papin

42 - 'Dr Papin about the Florentine Experiments at the Academie del Cimento'

43 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments of the effect of Spirit of wine, mixed with Syrup of Violets etc'

44 - 'Dr Papin about the Florentine Experiments etc'

45 - 'Dr Papin's Contrivance for the casting of Medalls 'in vacuo'

46 - Dr Papin's Experiment about the Sypho Wurtembergiens

47 - 'Dr Papin's Syphon that answers all the Proprieties of the Sypho Wurtembergiens'

48 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments about making Water boyle by putting it into Ice'

49 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment of keeping a Candle Burning under Water'

50 - 'Dr Papin's further use of the foregoing Apparatus in drawing of Spirit of Sulphur'

51 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment of making Filtrations through Cap Paper by means of the Pnewmatick Engine'

52 - 'Dr Papin's further Experiments of the use of the Filtrations aforementioned'

53 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment of Spirit of Wine and water purged of Air and mixt 'in Vacuo"

54 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment Preparation of the Juice of licorish and Water made in the Digester; Also a Composition of it with the Gelly of Bones'

55 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment of Shutting up Water or Spirit of Wine 'in Vacuo' and making them boile by putting them in Ice'

56 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment to prove that the Air is necessary for Sounds'

57 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment of Producing Sounds by a Factitious Air'

58 - 'Dr Papin's Preparation of the Jesuits Bark in the Digester: And the different operations of Water and Wine on Flesh and Bones in the Digester'

59 - 'Dr Papin's comparions of the Jesuits Bark Digested in Water, Wine and spirit of Wine: and Way of making Medal with the Gelly of Bones'

60 - 'Dr Papin's Tryall of the strength of Plaster of Paris mixed with Gelly of Bones, compared with other Plaster'

61 - 'Dr Slare's Discovery of an uncommon Concrete found in the Distillation of Vegetables'

62 - Definitions by Isaac Newton

63 - 'A Proposal of a new way of Cutting for the Stone of the Bladder' by Martin Lister

64 - 'Dr Papin's Preparation of Plaster of Paris with Gelly of Bones'

65 - 'Dr Papin Experiments relating to the height the water will probably rise to in an Equicrural Syphon'

66 - 'Dr Papin Experiments to Water passing through Wood and Leather'

67 - 'Dr Papin Experiments of Water passing through Leather Longwise, Oak longwise, Oak cut across, and Corke'

68 - Dr Papin's Experiments made with an Equicrural Syphon of Ten Foot high'

69 - 'Dr Papin Experiments How smal bodies swimming upon the Water run together 'in vacuo"

70 - 'Dr Papin Experiments made with Mr Molyneux his Hygroscope And Of Animals in Factitious Air'

71 - 'Dr Papin's Proposal for making an Equicrural Syphon more usefull'

72 - 'Dr Papin's New Contrivance of a Fountain Proposed'

73 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments about keeping Plants in Turpentine And A Pear kept 'in vacuo' Ten months'

74 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments of keeping Insects in Turpentine And of Crystallizations 'in vacuo"

75 - 'Dr Papin's Further Proposal about Crystallizations 'in vacuo' And Insects dying in factitious Air'

76 - 'Dr Papin's Draught of the Vessels designed for the hastning of Evaporations and Distillations by nicanes of a Vacuum'

77 - 'Dr Papin's triall of Monsieur Villermonts way of seperating the Grease and foulness from Lye that had been used'

78 - 'Dr Papin's Rule for finding the height of the Mercury upon any quantity of Air that is left in the Tube'

79 - 'Dr Papin's Improvement of a Clepsydra contrived formerly by Monsieur Comiers'

80 - 'Dr Papin's Demonstrations of a Problem of Stevinus to prove that water included in a slender Pipe will press upon a large Basis as much as a Pillar of water as large as the Basis and as high as the slender Pipe'

81 - 'Dr Slare Experiments made on the Mineral Kobalt in Order to the discovering the Nature of Zaffer'

82 - 'A short Account of some Experiments made with Saliva Humana' by Frederick Slare

83 - 'Dr Slare's Observations about the Smelling Water at Hogsdon'

84 - Account by Frederick Slare

85 - 'Some further Remarks on the Instrument proposed by an Anonymous French Author, for effecting a perpetuall Motion'

86 - 'Dr Papin account of his Engine that circulates water'

87 - 'Dr Papin's Engine for raising water out of a mine'

88 - 'Mr Papin's Account of the Water Engine at London Bridge and his thoughts thereupon'

89 - 'Dr Papin's Paper about the boyling of water by the Application of Cold'

90 - 'A Description of an Invention whereby the Divisions of the Barometer may be enlarged in any given proportions' by Robert Hooke

91 - 'A Catalogue of simple and Mixt colours with a specimen of each, Colour prefixt to its proper Name' by Richard Waller

92 - 'In Usum Exterorum visum est Praefatiunculam hanc atque Catalogum colorum Latinitate donare'

93 - 'Mr Papin's Experiment of the Compression of Air in the Windgun'

94 - 'The Catalogue of Plants, which Mr Halley put into my hands, found in North Wales and said to have been unobserv'd before in this Island' by Dr Robinson

95 - Mr Musgrave's account of some rare Plants in Wales

96 - 'Dr Papin's Experiment about the relieving a Bird shutt up in a small space till sick with the windgunn'

97 - 'An account of an Experiment shown before the Royal Society of Shooting by the Rarefaction of the Air' by Denis Papin

98 - 'An Account of an Engine that consumes Smoak [smoke], shewn lately at St Germains Faire in paris' by Henry Justel

99 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments about shooting in a longer Cylinder evacuated of Air'

100 - 'Dr Papin's Experiments about firing Bodies 'in Vacuo"

101 - About the origin of the syphon from 'Demonstratione Evangelica' by Thomas Gale

102 - Dr Papin's experiments to preserve fruit in 'gelly'

103 - Concerning West Indian ware made from the pith of trees by Denis Papin

104 - 'Experiment of the Comparative weight of Quicksilver to water' by Edmond Halley

105 - Concerning the instrument for distillation described in the Digester Book by Denis Papin

106 - Dr Papin's account of improvements to his Digester

107 - 'A Discourse on this Problem; why Bodies dissolved in Menstrua specifically lighter, than themselves swim therein' by William Molyneux

108 - 'Dr Papin about brewing in his Digester'

109 - 'Dr Papin about softning Rice'

110 - 'Dr Papins Contrivance for Filtration'

111 - Two experiments with the new Digester by Denis Papin

112 - Experiments to preserve fish by boiling and keeping 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin

113 - Experiment of preserving juices of plants and fruits by boiling and keeping 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin

114 - Details about refining sugar by Denis Papin

115 - Experiment to shoot by rarefaction of the air by Denis Papin

116 - Experiment to fill barometer with quicksilver and no air by Denis Papin

117 - Concerns the making of a barometer free from air by Denis Papin

118 - Experiment to increase evaporation in production of wares by Denis Papin

119 - 'Account of great haile fallen in France' by Robert Boyle

120 - 'An Account of the course of the Tides in the port of Dublin in Ireland' by William Molyneux

121 - 'A Dioptrick Probleme Why four Convex glasses in a Telescope shew Objects Erect' by William Molyneux

122 - 'A Relation of a Petrified 'Glandula Pinealis' lately found in the Dissection of a Brain' by Edmond King

123 - 'Dr Papin about an Improvement of the new Digester'

124 - Experiment to preserve cherries 'in vacuo' without sugar by Denis Papin

125 - Figure to show the occultation of Jupiter on 10 April 1686 by Johannis Hevelius

126 - 'A Demonstration of the Velocity wherewith the Air rushes into an Exhausted Receiver, lately produced before the Royal Society' by Denis Papin

127 - 'Mr Papin about Bakeing Bread in his Digester'

128 - Table showing observations of the lunar eclipse on 19 November 1686 by William Molyneux

129 - 'Dr Papin about Flint and Steel 'in vacuo"

130 - 'About shooting a Sphericall Bullet' by Denis Papin

131 - 'About Air produced by fireing Gunpowder' by Denis Papin

132 - 'Concerning the Number of People in London as also in Paris, Rouen and Rome' by William Petty

133 - Experiment to show whether particles struck off by the collision of Steel and flint 'in vacuo' can be melted into globules by Denis Papin

134 - Revision of the experiment to fire gunpowder 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin

135 - Experiment to show resistence of air to a moving pendulum by Denis Papin

136 - Experiment to show whether phosphorus 'in vacuo' will ignite by Denis Papin

137 - Experiment to determine the source of air produced when firing gunpowder 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin

138 - Answers to objections concerning a new way of raising water by Denis Papin

139 - 'A Relation of an extraordinary effect of the Power of Imagination' communicated by Mr Edward Smith of the Philosophicall Society at Dublin, as it was brought before that company by Mr St George Ashe'

140 - Letter, from Thomas Gale to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, dated at London

141 - Catalogue, 'Of the foreign correspondents of the Royal Society'

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

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

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Tweets by theRCN

Papers of Robert Boyle

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Papers of Colin Pillinger

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