| Description | Fair copies of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.
At the back of the volume is a table of the Society's foreign correspondents in 1677 (from Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Sicily, Germany, Low Countries, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Persia, Japan and Batavia [colonial name of the capital of the Dutch East Indies, now Jakarta, Indonesia]).
There is also a copy of a letter from Dr Thomas Gale to Leeuwenhoek (in Latin), dated 26 February 1679, stating that he was sending his election certificate to the Society (which is cited below this). |