Record

Reference numberDM/5
LevelFile
TitleDomestic Manuscripts Volume 5
Date17th Century-18th Century
DescriptionVolume 5 ('Miscellaneous administrative papers of the 17th and early 18th centuries'), includes minutes of the Society's earliest committees, drafts of diplomas for Foreign Members and financial information on the Society, 1662-1733.

Including:

Nos 1-18 Mostly papers relating to the payment (and non-payment) of arrears by Fellows of the Royal Society.

Nos 14-15 Appointment of curators to the Royal Society, for the topics of Physic-Mathematical (Robert Hooke), Anatomic-Chymical (Nehemiah Grew) and Curator for the History of Trade (Mr Blackburn)

Nos 53-58 Drafts and fair copies of diplomas, marking the election as Fellows of the Royal Society of Johannes Hevelius, Antonio Alvarez da Cunha, Renatus Franciscus Slusius and Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff. 1664-1714

Nos 60-68 Minutes from early committees of the Royal Society: Committee to be appointed 'to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatoes through all the parts of England'; Committee for reviewing the Laws; Committee 'for collecting the Phenomena of nature and all philosophicall experiments hitherto observed, made and recorded'; Committee for Agriculture; Georgicall Committee; Mechanicall Committee; Committee for Correspondence. 1662-1665.

Nos 72-80 'Experiments recommended to severall persons'. Slips of paper on which are written the persons name and the experiment which it is recommended he should make. 1660s

Nos 85-89 Lists of occasions on which items of natural curiosity were either given to the Royal Society or produced at a meeting. 1660-1734

Nos 98-115 Lists of benefactors to the Royal Society Library and Museum. 17th-18th century

No 104 Form of a demand for 'one human body legally condemned and put to death' for the use of the Royal Society. 1738
See also DM/1/62-63
Extent118 items
FormatManuscript and printed documents
Access statusOpen
Access conditionsOPEN - but photocopying forbidden.
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    Browse the records of some of our collections, which cover all branches of science and date from the 12th century onwards. These include the published works of Fellows of the Royal Society, personal papers of eminent scientists, letters and manuscripts sent to the Society or presented at meetings, and administrative records documenting the Society's activities since our foundation in 1660.

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