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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Concerning the progress made by Boyle and William Brouncker in mercurial experiments

Reference number: EL/B1/81

Concerning mercurial experiments eg pressure of mercurial cylinders

Reference number: EL/O1/4
1664

Autograph letter describing Siamese twins from Fisherton near Salisbury, Wiltshire, and a figure of them is attached Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1664

Reference number: EL/B1/82

Concerns establishment of trade routes and Anglo-Dutch commercial rivalry, particularly about a Dutch trade passage to China; details of a thunderstom in Italy; that the steeple of St Paul's would be a good place to carry out experiments about falling bodies, the Toricellian experiment etc; concerning a paper read by Packer about damp in mines; Zulichem's suggested experiment to show sound vibrations in 'hard bodies'; Wylde's promised experiments to soften steel without fire and to fix colours; Howard's experiments about fixing log wood; concerns meeting at Povey's house

Reference number: EL/OB/10
1665

Autograph letter about sending an observation of the last comet seen in Ireland and about the efficacy of the plant Galega ('Ruta capraria') against the bite of the viper

Reference number: EL/B1/83

Autograph letter describing a 'monstrous' colt and preserving samples of its body in wine; concerning a dose of the plant 'Ruta capraria'

Reference number: EL/B1/84

Autograph letter containing views about John Beale's sealed thermometers and about his hart-shaped stone; concerning a stone found in the uterus of a cow; concerning the Latin edition of 'Thermometrical Experiments' and the 'History of Cold'; concerning Boyle's hydrostatical experiments; concerning a mineral spring

Reference number: EL/B1/85

Autograph letter concerning grass found in the wind-pipes of a sheep and an ox; experiments carried out with Dr Lower to clarify this finding Transcribed into LBO/28/6 See 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 1, no 6, pp 100-101 for Dr Wallis's paper about this

Reference number: EL/B1/86

Autograph letter with views about the Parliament of Paris which tried to resist the king; concerning wood that was preserved in sandy soil without water; concerning experiments with 'oil of tobacco'; concerning manuscripts for publication Colonel Gratrix's account of curing diseases by stroking is attached

Reference number: EL/B1/87

Autograph letters concerning experiments with 'oil of tobacco' and its antidote; concerning the burning glass

Reference number: EL/B1/88

Autograph letter concerning Helmont's experiments with sulphur; concerning experiments injecting 'oil of tobacco' into animals

Reference number: EL/B1/89

Autograph letter concerning the printing of Boyle's 'History of Colour'; concerning Dr Austin's book on fruit trees; concerning Boyle's hydrostatical and other papers; concerning a new telescope

Reference number: EL/B1/90

Autograph letter concerning Signor Borhi's antidote against the plague; concerning Boyle's experiments to find the weight of a cubic inch of water; concerning an Italian translation of 'History of Cold' Oldenburg has added notes to this letter

Reference number: EL/B1/91

Autograph letter concerning Signor Borhi's antidote for the plague; concerning Boyle's publications; arrangements for meeting members of the Royal Society

Reference number: EL/B1/92

Autograph letter with details of the meeting of members of the Royal Society eg. what papers were read and Boyle's experiment of suspending mercury in a pipe open at both ends and experiments with 'oil of tobacco' and animals

Reference number: EL/B1/93

Autograph letter concerns publications of the 'Philosophical Transactions'

Reference number: EL/B1/94

Autograph letter about publications of 'Philosophical Transactions'

Reference number: EL/B1/95

Autograph letter concerning Dr Wallis's paper in 'Philosophical Transactions'; concerning a book on injections into animals, vol 1, no 6, pp 100-101. Rough minutes from 26 April 1665 are attached. Transcribed in LBO/ 28/ 16

Reference number: EL/B1/96

Autograph letter concerning Dr Wallis's paper in 'Philosophical Transactions'; concerning white blood; concerning an ox's tooth cased in gold; concerning white blood found in a man, which is discussed in 'Philosophical Transactions' volume 1, no 6, pp 100-101. Transcribed in LBO/28/17

Reference number: EL/B1/97

Autograph letter concerning Warnero's translation of the Turkish bible and Seaman's Turkish version of the New Testament; concerning acid 'menstrua' on stones

Reference number: EL/B1/98

Autograph letter concerning an experiment with salt and nitrous water and beams of the moon; concerning the publication of 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'

Reference number: EL/B1/99

Autograph letter concerns delivering Monsieur Auzout's paper to Robert Moray to show the mathematicians there; concerning Richard Reeves's optical glasses; concerning papers to do with Boyle's 'History of Cold'

Reference number: EL/B1/100

Autograph letter concerning the publication of 'Philosophical Transactions' and corrections to Boyle's 'History of Cold'

Reference number: EL/B1/101
1676

Discussing when he would next be in London

Reference number: EL/OB/95