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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
Collapse 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
1 - Observations of a partial lunar eclipse witnessed in Dublin on 19 November 1686 by St George Ashe and Dr Smith
2 - 'An account of the Specifik Gravity of Chinaware and Glass'
3 - 'Two Observations on the Dyall of a Pendulum Clock and on a Glass Globe'
4 - Concerning the identification of a bronze statue
5 - Part of Captain Pennycook's Journal to New Caledonia in Darien communicated by Dr Wallace
6 - Describing the instrument to solve three geometrical problems by Du Verger Gallo
7 - 'Concerning the Analisation of Alum Earth which is said to be the Residuum after Alum is made by Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwith'
8 - 'A Strange Relation of a Foetus that was in found in Dyssecting an old woman that was killed by a fall from a window etc'
9 - Concerning work of Theodore Mayerne on hydropholica
10 - 'Remedies that Theodore Mayerne prescribed (for his children and the rest of his Family) against the biting of a Dog or Cat'
11 - 'An account by Sir Theodore Mayerne of the famous cure of Mrs Dorothy Mallard that lived in Westminster of a Dropsy or Timpany communicated by Mr Thomas Devaux'
12 - 'An Account of the making of Salt by Captain John Byndlos to whom belong the Salt work near Portsmouth called Saltern'
13 - 'An abstract account of a Lad in Saxony that swallowed a Knife etc' by Edmond Halley
14 - 'A Discourse of the Exactness of the ancient Geography in comparison with that of the modern' by Edmond Halley
15 - 'Concerning the making of Prism to transmitt only the Red Light' by Edmond Halley
16 - 'A Discourse concerning a method to keep great ships out at Sea in winter time without damage' by Edmond Halley
17 - 'A Description of an Instrument to observe the celestial motion etc by reflexion thro' a Telescope without elevating the Telescope towards the object' by Edmond Halley
18 - 'A Paper concerning Trying the force of the magnet at Several distances' by Edmond Halley
19 - 'An Experiment of the force of the Magnetic Needle, and its Variation' by Edmond Halley
19a - 'An Experiment of the influence of the Air in kindling of Phosphorus'
19b - 'A general proposition for determining the area of a cycloid and epicycloid by quadrature', by Edmund Halley
20 - 'A Discourse concerning an Hypothesis of the manner of the General Deluge' by Edmond Halley
21 - 'An Estimate of the quantity of vapours raised out of the Sea by the warmth of the sun derived from an Experiment shown before the Royal Society' by Edmond Halley
22 - 'An Account of the motion of the Stomach observed in a Dog July 1685' by Christopher Pitt
23 - 'An account of the Symptoms that attended two boys who had handled and washed a dog's head which had been bit by a mad dog' communicated by Martin Lister
24 - Extract from the minutes of the Philosophical Society at Oxford dated 18 March 1687 concerning the 'Irish Slat'
25 - Extract from the minutes of the Philosophical Society at Oxford February 8 1684 concerning Turkish Rusma and Alcanna
26 - 'The way of making Pitch, Tarr, Razin and Turpentine near Marseilles' communicated by Thomas Bent to Dr Welsted
27 - 'These following propositions are desired to be answered in a year and half by any person...'
28 - 'A new discovery of the original of Fleas' - extract from a letter from D'iacinto Cestone of Leghorn to Martin Lister
29 - 'An account of the nature of Silk as it is made in Piedmont' communicated by William Aglionby
30 - 'A Relation of a childs being cut for the stone by Fryar James in the convent of the Capuchins at Antwep' by Peter Silvestre
31 - Observations of the sun and moon from the vernal equinox
32 - 'Account of Some Roman, French and Irish Inscriptions and Antiquities lately found in Ireland and Scotland by Mr Edward Lluyd [Lhwyd]' communicated by William Musgrave to Hans Sloane
33 - Method of colouring marble
34 - Account of the plant 'Attmella' from Ceylon from a letter from Peter Hotton
35 - Account of the dissection of a woman who died in childbirth by Peter Silvestre
36 - 'Mr Edward Bulkley's account of the Balsamum catharticum de Borneo'
37 - Copy of Isaac Newton's table showing the quantity and degrees of heat
38 - Account of the virtues of the herb Acmella in relieving bladder stones
39 - 'Mr Furley's Account of a person who can neither Read nor Write, yet will reckon summs to a great exactness' communicated by Mr Locke
40 - Observations of cold coming from mixtures of different salts by Monsieur Geoffroy
41 - Account of a new species of walnut discovered by Monsieur Reneaume
42 - 'Account of a Person who took great Quantities of Opium without its Causing Sleep attested by several Physicians'
43 - 'Account of the strange Effects of India Varnish' by Giuseppe Del Papa
44 - 'A Relation of the Bones of a Foetus extracted from the Side of a Woman who recover'd and is still living' by Christopher Birbeck
45 - 'The Case of the Style or Kalendar states and humbly offered to the Consideration of the Honorable House of Commons'
46 - 'Memoriall to live under the Equinoctial and between the Tropicks, the Common distempers incident to the Inhabitants of those climates with the Manner of Cure by the Natives [sic] and likewise by other European practitioners in Physick'
47 - 'Mr Lowthorps Paper on Some Considerations concerning the Improvement of Telescopes'
48 - 'Memorandum of the Use and Virtues of Severall Exottick Plants In the Island of Barbadoes' by J Gibbes
49 - 'Some Medicinall Minerals with their vertues and Malabar Name'
50 - 'Petition of Robert Rowe Mariner concerning the mistery of Longitude'
51 - Account of various foreign currencies and weights by G Lewis
52 - 'The Case of Madame [Henrietta Anne Stuart of England]'
53 - 'Account of a cave near Dunmore' by Thomas Molyneux
54 - 'Account of Native Sulphur found in Ireland by his Grace St George Ashe, Lord Bishop of Clogher'
55 - 'Proposals for a Perpetual Motion, or a Clock that will goe without ceasing, offer'd to the Royal Society by Mr Roger Morton
56 - 'To the Queens most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of the President Councill and Fellows of the Royall Society of London'
57 - 'Proposals for building a House for the Royal Society' by Sir Christopher Wren
58 - 'Description of the Lapland Drums and manner of using them; of the Negroes [sic] burying their Dead and their way of telling whether they come to untimely deaths'
59 - 'Case of a Woman cur'd of Blindness and convulsions by the Bath' by Dr John Shadwell
60 - 'Some Instruments, Experiments and Problems with their Solutions, propos'd to the Royal Society by Mr John Lowthorp'
61 - 'Discourse of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin containing an Account of Manuring lands by Sea Shells, as practiz'd in the Counties of Londonderry and Donegall read before the Dublin Society and ordered to be register'd the 26 of August 1707'
62 - 'Proposals for making an Engine to raise Water by the help of Fire' by Denis Papin
63 - Isaac Newton's opinion of Denis Papin's proposals for making a water-raising engine
64 - 'Some Propositions concerning the Quadrature of the Circle'
65 - Account of a disease common in Switzerland called 'nostalgia' by John Jacob Scheuchzer
66 - Account of alpine trees and plants by John Jacob Scheuchzer
67 - Account of the water in Switzerland by John Jacob Scheuchzer
68 - Concerning fire or degree of heat in the Alps by John Jacob Scheuchzer
69 - Concerning fertility in Switzerland by John Jacob Scheuchzer
70 - 'A discourse of the Pulse in the Small Pox by Sir John Floyer of Lichfeild'
71 - 'Proposals for making a new sort of Locks that cannot be pick't or opened with false Keys'
72 - 'The Anatomy of the Seal and Porpess' by Patrick Blair in a letter to Hans Sloane
73 - 'Proposals for making Experiments by Francis Hauksbee'
74 - 'Particular Relation of certain Mines and Minerals within the Kingdom of Ireland...' by John Powell
75 - 'Some thoughts for Improving the Harbour of Dublin by Thomas Burgh Esq read before the Dublin Society September 17 1707'
76 - 'Account of a petrified Honey Comb' by Dr Molyneux
76a - An Account of some Appearances in the Heavens by Mr Edmund Halley
76b - 'The manner of preserving Fruit trees as formerly practised in Kent' communicated by John Thorpe
77 - 'Account of the Successe of an attempt to continue severall Atmospheres of Air condens'd in the space of One for a considerable time' by Francis Hauksbee
78 - 'Account of an Experiment touching the Production of Light within a Globe Glass whose inward Surface is lined with Sealing Wax upon an Attrition of its outside' by Francis Hauksbee
79 - 'Account of severall Experiments in Relation to the Weight of common Water under different circumstances' by Francis Hauksbee
80 - 'Account of severall Experiments touching the seeming Spontaneous Ascent of Water between two Glass Planes' by Francis Hauksbee
81 - 'Narrative of the Free Masons Word and signes' by Thomas Martin
82 - 'Letter to the Reverend Dr John Harris FRS relating to a pretended Invention of Dr Papin FRS' by Thomas Savery
83 - 'Of the working Dr Papin's improvement' by Thomas Savery
84 - 'A New Way to Gett Air for Respiration and Vegetation' by Denis Papin
85 - 'Proposals about the Machine to gett good Air for Respiration and Vegetation' by Denis Papin
86 - 'An Answer to an Objection against the Chamber for comprest Air' by Denis Papin
87 - 'Account of the Papers, Models and Figures which the Society received from Mr Hobbs of Wymouth in Doresetshire [Dorset]' by William Derham
88 - Letter of Gandolphe to Isaac Newton
89 - 'Observations of the cornea upon incision' by Gandolphe, Doctor of Physic at Dunkirk
90 - 'Observations of the Taenia [tapeworm] voided by a woman the third day after her Lying' by Gandolphe
91 - 'Some thoughts upon the History of Feavers [fevers]' by Dr Phillip Guide
92 - 'Account of what appeared on opening the Body of St Johns Esq who dyed July 2 1705 Aged 72' by William Cowper
93 - 'A Petition of Mr William Wilkins concerning the Embalming of dead Bodies'
94 - 'Account of the Firr Trees in Scotland' by Earl of Cromertie to Hans Sloane
95 - 'Account of three persons poison'ed in East India with the Discovery of the Poison and the Cures perform'd on one of them'
96 - 'Anatomical Description of the heart of Land Tortoises from America' by Mr [Paul] Bussiere [Buissiere]
97 - 'Proposals for establishing a Company for new Inventions' by Denis Papin
98 - Dr Papin's New Fashion of Clock wheeles and Pinions'
99 - 'Some Few Remarks on Dr Papin's New Improvement of the Hassian Bellows' by Richard Waller
100 - 'Dr Papin's Improvement of the Hassian Bellows'
101 - 'Some Remarks upon Dr Papins Paper concerning an Invention to Improve Clockwork' by Richard Waller
102 - Account of two instruments - one with ordinary clock-wheels and the other with cylinders for the teeth of the wheels by Denis Papin
103 - 'Description of second Instrument for extracting Oil of Sulphur per Campanam' by Denis Papin
104 - 'Account of the Appearances upon Dissection in the Body of the Honourable the Ladie Bakington' by William Cole
105 - 'Account of Conical Appearances in the Heavens which seem to account for the Increase both of the Magnitude of the heavenly Bodies and their Distance from one another near the horizon' by William Derham
106 - 'Report of the committee of the Royal Society for inspecting the Books and papers of the Society on relation to the Dispute between Mr Leibnitz and Mr Keile'
107 - 'Remarques sur la Peste de Copenhagen'
108 - Account of Reverend Felix Bernard's machine by William Jones
109 - 'Account of a machine for Exhausting the Air from Proper vessels by the Descent of Quicksilver being an Improvment of that method which was made use of in the Academie Del Cimento' by Francis Hauksbee
110 - Anatomical observations by William Cheseldon
111 - 'Paper read by the Venetian Embassador at his Admission into the Royal Society'
112 - 'Paper concerning the mineral called Zaffora by Dr Merrett found amongst Dr Hooks Papers' by Richard Waller
113 - Extract of a letter from Carolina with details of a hurricane
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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