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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
Collapse 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
1 - 'About a Cyder-Press' by Denis Papin
2 - Concerning preservation of green pease by Denis Papin
3 - Reasons why the 'jet d'eau in vacuo' did not reach very high by Denis Papin
3a - Observations of an experiment to burn gunpowder 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin
4 - Observations of the green gooseberries 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin
5 - Observations of distilling 'in vacuo' by Denis Papin
6 - 'About saving the materialls of Gunpowder' by Denis Papin
7 - Details of instrument for the making of sulphur by Denis Papin
8 - Three Theorems of Vegetation of trees by Mr Brotherton
9 - 'A Receipt to cure Mad Dogs, or Men, or Beasts bitten by Mad Dogs Communicated to the Royal Society by Sir Robert Gourdon By His Maisties Command'
10 - 'A Discourse concerning the most seasonable time of felling of Timber' by Robert Plot
11 - Details of an experiment to clear the air of noxious fumes by Denis Papin
12 - 'About clearing the Air from fumes, and Distilling 'in vacuo" by Denis Papin
13 - 'Mr Papin's Camera Aeolica'
14 - Observations of the dissection of Mr Smith of Highgate on 8 July 1687 by Edmond Tyson
15 - 'Dr Papin about the comparative Velocity of a Cylinder and Bullet'
16 - 'Dr Papin about the Demonstration of the Velocity of the Impulse of the Air into a barrel exhausted'
17 - Observations of tides at Bristol by Mr Waller
18 - 'Mr Papin about using gunpowder to raise weights'
19 - 'A Theory of the tides at the Barr of Tunking' by Edmond Halley
20 - 'Mr Edmond Halley's Paper considering the first position of the Poles of the Earth'
21 - 'Experiment of the Expansions of Liquors by heat'
22 - 'An Account of an Experiment of the injection of Mercury into the blood, and its ill effects on the lungs by A Moulin'
23 - Observations of the lunar eclipse in April 1688 witnessed at Moscow
24 - 'Mr Halley about a Method for walking under Water'
25 - 'Some Experiments on a black shining sand brought from Virginia suppos'd to contain iron' by P A Martin
26 - 'The Description and figure of a Scorpion from Barbary'
27 - Account of a woman who voided the bones of a foetus through abscesses in the groin from Dr Chauncey of Bristol
28 - Description of the Pimiento or Jamaica Pepper tree, and the wild Cinnamon Tree, commonly, but falsely called the 'Cortex Winterauus', by Hans Sloane
29 - 'An Account of the Circulation of the Watery vapours of the Sea and the Cause of Springs' by Edmond Halley
30 - 'An account of the circulation of the Watery vapours of the Sea and the Cause of Springs' by Edmond Halley
31 - Account of Mr Eadsberg's Mill on Mr Evelyn's ground at Deptford
32 - 'Mr Wallers account of the wall of Old Verulam'
33 - Copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley dated 17 January 1687 at Oxford
34 - Copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley concerning the resistance of the air to projectiles dated 4 March 1687 at Oxford
35 - 'Concerning the apparent magnitude of the Sun and Moon Or the Apparent Distance of two starrs, when Nigh the Horizon and when Higher Elevated' by William Molyneux dated 10 March 1687 at Dublin
36 - Copy of a letter from John Wallis to Edmond Halley dated 26 April 1687 at Oxford
37 - Tables of the sun's meridian altitudes witnessed at Nuremburg by John Philip Wurzelbaur between 9 March 1686 and 11 March 1687
38 - Copy of a letter from John Philip Wurzelbaur to Edmond Halley dated 16 September 1687 at Nuremburg
39 - Observations of China and Japan
40 - 'Anatomicall Observations in the heads of several fowle made at severall tymes by the late Allen Moulin'
41 - Copy of a letter from John Philip Wurzelbaur to Edmond Halley
42 - Concerning an extraordinary twilight observed at Nuremburg by John Philip Wurzelbaur
43 - Description of phenomenon witnessed in the sky by George Christopher Eimmart
44 - Copy of Dr Harvey's letter on human anatomy
45 - 'An Account of a Ruminateing Man lately liveing at Bristol' given to the Royal Society by Frederick Slare
46 - 'An Account of the Cutting of two large Stones out of the 'Meatus Urinarius" by Charles Bernard
47 - 'An Account of the making Pitch, Tar and Oyl out of a Blackish Stone in Shropshire'
48 - 'Of the use of Opium amongst the Turks' by Dr Edward Smith
49 - 'An Account of the Roman Pottery' by Ralph Thoresby sent to Martin Lister
50 - 'An Account of the Nature and Differences of the Juices particularly of English Vegetables' by Martin Lister
51 - 'An Account of the quantity of Rain fallen in one Year in Gresham Colledge Land'
52 - 'An Account of Severall Observables in Lincolnshire not taken notice of in Mr Cambden or any other Author' by Christopher Merrett, surveyor of the Port of Boston
53 - 'An Account of the opening of the Body of a boy who dyed Suddainly' by Charles Preston
54 - 'An Account of Several Curiositys relateing to Amber lately sent to the Royal Society' from Philip Jacob Hartmannus
55 - 'Concerning several Plants may be usefully cultivated for Produceing Grass or Hay' by Martin Lister
56 - 'An Account of a not yet described 'Scolopendra Marina' by Thomas Molyneux' communicated by Mr Locke
57 - 'An account of a child born alive without a Brain and the Observables in it on Dissection' by Charles Preston
58 - 'Pour faire du Feu bleu'
59 - 'The way of makeing Globe Looking glasses' by Robert Southwell
60 - 'A paper of experiments relating to the Phosphorus' communicated by Robert Southwell
61 - 'Extract from the Registers of the Philosophical Society at Oxford October 7 1684 concerning a woman who voided the Bones of a Foetus, above the Os Pubis, and by other Extraordinary ways'
62 - Observations of the brain by Edward Tyson
63 - 'Several Experiments concerning preserving of flowers Fruits etc in their Colours' by Robert Southwell
64 - An account of a foetus voided by the ulcerated navil of an inhabitant of the island of Nevis in the West Indies [Caribbean] by James Brodie
65 - 'A Letter from Mr Halley of June 7 1697 concerning the Torricellian Experiment tryed on the Top of Snowdon Hill and the Success of it'
66 - Tables showing the numbers of marriages, christenings, burials in 1695 in Frankfurt on the Maine by Frederick Slare
67 - Account of a black boy who developed white spots on his skin by William Byrd
68 - Letter from Thomas Molyneux to the St George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher, concerning swarms of insects in the province of Connaught
69 - 'Several Experiments about giveing Variety of Tinctures to water etc' by Robert Southwell
70 - Concerning the Catenary curve by Henry Aldrick
71 - 'Some observations concerning the substance commonly called black lead' by Robert Plot
72 - Letter from Charles Morley to Dr Bernard Conner 'concerning the bones of a foetus voided through the anus some years after conception'
73 - Part of a letter from William Derham, Rector of Upminster, dated December 6 1697, 'Giving an account of Some experiments about the height of the Mercury in the Barometer at the Top and bottom of the Monument and about Portable Barometers'
74 - 'Of China ware & Purcelane [porcelain]'
75 - Letter from William Derham to Hans Sloane 'about a contrivance to measure the height of the Mercury in the Barometer by a Circle on one of the weather Plates'
76 - Observations of female anatomy
77 - 'An Account of a Monstrous Calf with two Heads' by Robert Southwell
78 - Details of a very tall man from Port Leicester in County Meath, Ireland, communicated by William Musgrave
79 - Letter from William Cowper concerning a large diseased kidney found on the dissection of a woman
80 - Letter from William Musgrave, dated 4 June 1698 at Exeter, concerning periodical palsy
81 - Part of a letter from Reverend Hugh Jones to Reverend Benjamin Woodroofe [Woodroffe] concerning observations of Maryland, USA
82 - 'A question in Musick lately proposed to Dr Wallis, concerning the Division of the Monochord, or Section of the Musical canon: with his answer to it'
83 - 'An Account of Some effects of 'horned poppy" by Issac Newton
84 - Part of a letter from Mr [Paul] Bussiere [Buissiere] to Hans Sloane concerning a new method of removing a bladder stone
85 - Observations sent from the East Indies - answers to queries sent there by Richard Waller
86 - Letter from John Wallis to Andrew Fletcher 'concerning the strange effects reported of Musick in former Times beyond what it is to be found in Later Ages'
87 - 'Captain Langford's observations of his own Experience upon Hurricanes and their prognosticks' communicated by Mr Bonavert
88 - Extract of a letter from Mr Petto concerning some parhelii observed in Sudbury, Suffolk
89 - 'Of Apparitions in the North of Scotland Communicated by Mr Walker'
90 - 'Some Experiments about freezing by Mr Desmasters Communicated by Dr William Musgrave'
91 - 'Queries for finding out the true Cause of Filtration' by Mr Dalgarne
92 - 'Of the Origine of white Vitriol and the figure of its Chrystalls not yet accounted for' by Martin Lister
93 - 'An Account of Mr Browne his Rotula Arithmetica'
94 - Nicholas Holloway's method to achieving fine Malaga wine communicated by Robert Southwell
95 - 'An account of a spring broke out at Assendon by Dr A Charlett'
96 - Account of the botanical specimen 'Amomum' or 'Fugus' sent by George Camelli at the Philippines to John Ray
97 - An Account of how and in what proportion the quicksilver may stand at different heights in a baroscope
98 - 'Observations of the weather in the hottest week of the last summer 1686, made jointly with the Baroscope and Thermoscope at Several hours of the day in order to find how much Heat affects the Baroscope'
99 - Account of a woman whose illness was cured by an injection by R Pitt
100 - 'Concerning the Dishing of Cart wheels'
101 - Five propositions concerning the quadrature of the circle by Nicholas Mercator
102 - Concerning the description of particular parishes in County Durham by John Adams
103 - 'An account of a Colony of Welsh in the West Indies [Caribbean] by Mr Morgan Jones'
104 - 'An Account of a Stone found in the Gall Bladder of a woman' by Dr Turner
105 - 'An account of Some Observations in the body of a person that died of Consumption' by Dr Havers
106 - 'Historia Lumbaginis Rheumaticae convulsiva' by Robert Pitt
107 - 'A Discourse of The Viper and some other Poysons' by Theodore de Mayerne
108 - 'The method manner and order of the Transmutation of Copper into brass' by Thomas Povey
109 - 'An account of the Giant's Causeway in the North of Ireland' by Reverend Samuel Foley
110 - 'Answers to Sir Richard Bulkeley's Quaeries relating to the Giant's Causeway'
111 - 'Some Notes upon the foregoeing Account of the Giants Causway Serving to illustrate the Same' by Thomas Molyneux
112 - 'An Anatomicall Account of Some remarkable things found on the Dissection of a Woman who dyed of the Dropsy' by Charles Preston
113 - 'Paper about magnetism, or concerning the Changing and fixing the Polarity of a piece of iron' by Mr J C
114 - 'Further Experiments of freezing by Mr Desmasters communicated by Dr Musgrave'
115 - Edmond Halley's observations of the dissection of a man by Dr Charles Bernard
116 - 'Some Observations on the Motion of the Sun' by Edmond Halley
117 - 'A discourse of the Virtue and use of Mares Milk'
118 - 'A true and exact relation of the Dismal and Surprizing Effects of a terrible and unusual clap of thunder with lightning that fell on the Trumball Gally' communicated by Robert Mawgridge, Kettle drummer unto his Majesty and the Surgeon of the said ship, to William Griffith
119 - Concerning certain affects and cures carried out in northern territories by D Loyd
120 - 'An Account of Mr Gordons Voyage in his Majesties Ship to the Levant' communicated by Robert Southwell
121 - Letter to Dr Sloane giving an account of the Double Pear' by Musgrave
122 - 'A relation of Hannah Tailer a very extraordinary Child of about Six years of age who in face was as large as a full grown woman of what appeared on the Dissection of her body' by Henry Sampson
123 - 'An Account of the Copper works on the Avon three miles about Bristol' communicated by Robert Southwell
124 - 'Concerning finding the Longitude of places' by Edmond Halley
125 - 'Concerning the force of Gunpowder' by Edmond Halley
126 - 'Concerning the Motion of light' by Edmond Halley
127 - 'A discourse of an Engine to raise Earth up with two men' by Edmond Halley
128 - Theory of finding longitude at sea by Edmond Halley
129 - 'Concerning an Instrument to be had at all places and times for exact observation' by Edmond Halley
130 - 'Concerning long Telescopes casing Reflected Beams' by Edmond Halley
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
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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