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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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9 letters from Jean Baptiste Du Hamel; 0 letters from Henry Oldenburg

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Concerns sending books Note reads: 'Not to be enter'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/H1/109

Concerns sending books and hopes to receive Boyle's new book; other literary notices

Reference number: EL/H1/110
1672

Discussing recent books and the work of Huygens to be published

Reference number: EL/H1/111
1673

Discussing the publication of books; concerning Denis's experiment to staunch blood from an artery of a dog

Reference number: EL/H1/112

States that three Frenchmen (de la Garde, Father Thomassin and another unnamed) will be coming to the Royal Society to see Boyle's experiments; discussing publication of books Note reads: 'Not to be enter'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/H1/113

Concerning Boyle's book of new experiments; concerning the character of Bienaise, who has developed a method for joining severed tendons, although other physicians claim to have this secret; concerning styptic fluid; outlining an experiment by Duverney to staunch blood with Hungarian vitriol and sal ammoniac; discussing several books

Reference number: EL/H1/114

Concerning consciousness in animals; other literary notices

Reference number: EL/H1/115
1674

Discussing publication of books Note reads: 'Not to be enter'd [in the Letter Book]'

Reference number: EL/H1/116
1676

States that he is creating a university course in Paris with Abbe Jean-Nicolas Colbert (1655-1707); concerning Picard's observations concerning light

Reference number: EL/H1/117