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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
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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
Collapse 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
0 - Draft index, for Register Book volume 8
1 - 'An account of what apeared [sic] upon the opening of the body of Mr Thomas Castillion on Monday September 19th 1687 with some slender reflections thereupon' by unknown author
2 - 'A Catalogue of Some of the Areana and Desiderata in Chymistry' by Dr Plot
3 - 'A Paper concerning the Ebullition of oyl' by Dr Pit
4 - 'A Paper containing some Syriac Inscriptions'
5 - 'Part of an Epitaph of Collinbourn Kingstone 8 Miles from Hungerford communicated by Mr Charlon'
6 - Details of an inventory of livestock and consumables (with prices) which belonged to Matilda of Hakelinton taken from a book in the Ashmolean
7 - 'A Paper concerning a Monstrous Cucumber' by Dr Plot
8 - Description of a man who can dislocate the joints of his body
9 - 'An Account of a Gall Bee and the Deathwatch Beetle' by Benjamin Allen
10 - Concerning a relation of Mr Nicholson Apothecary
11 - 'The way of making Several China varnishes sent from the Jesuits in China to the great Duke of Tuscany' communicated by Dr William Sherard
12 - 'Estralto di Notizie Sopra la nuova Scoperta dell'origine d'elle pulci' sent in a letter to Martin Lister
13 - 'A Discourse concerning the Polarity of Drills'
14 - 'An Extract of the Journalls of two Severall voyages of the English Merchants of Aleppo to Tadmor anciently called Palmyra' by Timothy Lanoy and Aaron Goodyear
15 - 'Observationes Sinenses' from Jean Cassini
16 - 'A Catalogue of Electricall Bodies' by the late Dr Robert Plot
17 - 'Some Experiments and Observations concerning Sounds by Mr Walker, late of Brazen Nose Coll Oxon'
18 - 'The Construction of a Quadratrix to the Circle being the Curve described by its Equable Evolution'
19 - 'Concerning Evacuating Water by pressure' by Edmond Halley
20 - 'An account of a very large Eel lately caught at Malden in Essex, with some considerations about the Generation of Eels by Dr Dale'
21 - Account of the use of 'Hipecacuana', a root growing in Brazil, by Hans Sloane
22 - Some notes on the foregoing paper on the medicinal properties of a root from Brazil by Hans Sloane
23 - 'Concerning a Phoca or Seal' by Mr Petiver
24 - An Account of Some Parhelia seen at Rotwell in Northamptonshire
25 - 'Concerning two Experiments with Liquors' by Dr Geoffroy
26 - An account of what happened to a child on swallowing two Copper farthings by Henry Underhill
27 - 'A Relation of the Symptoms that attended Mr Robert Burdet at his Death by the Bite of a Serpent Communicated by Aaron Goodyear who was then present
28 - 'An Objection to the New Hypothesis of the Generation of Animals from Animalcula in 'Semine humano' by Dr Martin Lister
29 - 'An account of what happened on syringing warm water into the Thorax of a bitch by Dr William Musgrave'
30 - 'Concerning the weight of the parts of Eggs by Mr Standard'
31 - 'Remarks on Mr Hautefeviles method for shortening Telescopes without lessening the effect' by Dr William Molyneux
32 - 'Concerning the Refractions of Liquors' by Edmond Halley
33 - 'A discourse tending to Explicate the Modus of the using of Vapours out of water' by Edmond Halley
34 - 'Proposals for rectifying the Straights or finding the exact Length of the Mediterranean'
35 - 'An account of a Stone causing a quinsey communicated by Mr Bonarert'
36 - Robert Hooke's account of a book 'The meridian of the Church of St Petronio'
37 - 'An account of a Stone found in the Stomach of a Lady on Dysection another in the Left kidney, and some smaller ones in the Gall bladder by Mr Willian Clark, Surgeon, Communicated by Dr Charles Preston'
38 - 'Concerning Coal borings Communicated by Dr Martin Lister which Rote or Record he had from Mr Maleceret of Arncliffe in Yorkshire'
39 - 'An account of a Young Man Slain with Thunder and Lightning December 22 1698' from Ralph Thoresby to Martin Lister
40 - 'Concerning Calcinations by Mr Ballard'
41 - 'An account of the wines about Orleans etc' communicated by Mr Welstred
42 - Minutes of the Dublin Philosophical Society
43 - 'A Relation of two monstrous pigs with the resemblance of humane faces and Two young Turkeys joined by the breast' by Sir John Floyer communicated by Edward Tyson
44 - Concerning the Academy of Sciences in Paris
45 - Concerning theory of quadrature by John Craig
46 - Letter from Thomas Molyneux to Martin Lister containing some additional observations on the Giant's Causeway
47 - 'Some Additional Remarks on the Extracting the Stone out of the Bladder of those of the female Sex' by Thomas Molyneux
48 - Letter from Thomas Luffkin to Hans Sloane concerning the application of pneumatics to cupping glasses
49 - 'De Lapidibus Ichthyomerphitis' by Caspar Hog
50 - Letter of Monsieur de St Evremont
51 - Details of an experiment to raise a weight using an empty bladder by Dom Croone
52 - 'Concerning the Magnetical power of the Poles'
53 - Properties of the Virginian Viper
54 - 'Concerning the mineral waters of Bourbon' by Mr Amiot
55 - 'Some Propositions in Dioprick'
56 - 'Du Pareira Braua'
57 - Observations of the vernal equinox by John Flamsteed
58 - 'An Account of the production of Slam Salt'
59 - Response to the letter of Raymund Vieussens concerning the existence of acidic salt in blood
60 - Hypothesis showing the difference between 'Syncope' and 'Apoplexia' by Francis Spoleto, Professor of Medicine at the University of Padova
61 - 'Some observations of the Mercurys Altitude with the changes of the weather at Emuy [Emoui] in China' by James Cunningham
62 - Concerning the multitude of sable mice in Lapland by Monsieur Roshoben to Olaus Burhman
63 - A further account of Nuce vomica from Father Camelli to John Ray and James Petiver
64 - 'Account of Boring for Rock Salt at Crowley in Cheshire in a letter from Thomas Brotherton to Hans Sloane'
65 - Concerning the circulation of blood in tadpoles from a letter of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
66 - 'An account of the discovery of making Brass easily' by George Ball
67 - Concerning the effects of an earthquake on the mountain about the Tangorusa and Batavian Rivers
68 - Concerning Dr Gregory's vindicating himself against a paper on geometry
69 - Concerns cutting the ivory bodkin out of the bladder of a young woman in Dublin by Mr Proby, communicated to the Royal Society by Thomas Molyneux
70 - 'Part of a journal kept from Scotland to New Caledonia with a short account of that country communicated by Dr Wallace
71 - Concerning the dimensions of the Duke of Beaufort's Ostrich
72 - Demographic information about Dublin, the counties of Armagh, Louth, and Meath
73 - Table of the Seamen, Fisherman, Watermen, Lightermen, and other boatmen in the kingdom of Ireland according to a return made in 1697
74 - 'An Account of the Romish Clergy in Ireland according to a Return made in April 1698'
75 - 'The prices of the best wheat and malt at Oxford upon the Market dayes next before Lady day and Michaelmass for 20 years last past'
76 - 'An account of the Virtues of 'Risagone Ind cossumuniar", a root found in the mountains of Patina near Bengala
77 - Transcription of a letter from Giuseppe Grandi to Golini about a worm found in an egg opened at Brunswick
78 - 'Observations of the Changes of the wind and weather for the months of October, November, December anno 1685' in Aberdeen by George Garden
79 - 'An account of an accident by Thunder and Lightning at Leeds in Yorkshire' by Ralph Thoresby
80 - 'A computation of the weight of fossils salt and French Bay salt dissolved in water and evaporated' by Mr Moult
81 - Letter from Giuseppe Grandi to Abbot Gelini
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
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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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