Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1810
Reference number: PT/4
Date: November 1809 - November 1810
Description
Unbound manuscript versions of papers published by the Royal Society in volume 100 of 'Philosophical Transactions' in 1810. Also includes a manuscript for Humphry Davy's Bakerian Lecture for 1810, published in the 1811 volume of Philosophical Transactions.
Includes some original illustrations and figures in various media (drawings, watercolours) in support of the papers.
Missing from this volume are the manuscripts for the following papers published in the 1810 volume of Philosophical Transactions:
'The Croonian Lecture' by William Hyde Wollaston (found in PT/5);
'Observations on the effects of magnesia, in preventing an increased formation of uric acid; with some remarks on the composition of the urine' by William Thomas Brande;
'Observations and experiments on pus' by George Pearson.
- Reference number
- PT/4
- Earliest possible date
- November 1809 - November 1810
- Physical description
- Loose manuscript papers written in ink
- Page extent
- One box containing 13 papers and one letter
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1810, November 1809 - November 1810, PT/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4/manuscripts-of-papers-published-in-philosophical-transactions-1810, accessed on 25 June 2025
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This volume contains 15 manuscripts:
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Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture for 1810, On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene, and on the chemical relations of these principles, to inflammable bodies' by Humphry Davy
1810 Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: PT/4/1 -
Paper, 'The case of a man, who died in consequence of the bite of a rattle snake with an account of the effects produced by the poison' by Everard Home
1809 Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/4/3 -
Paper, 'An analysis of several varieties of British and foreign salt (muriate of soda) with a view to explain their fitness for different economical purposes' by William Henry
1809 Creator: William Henry Reference number: PT/4/4
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Philosophical Transactions
The 'Philosophical Transactions' collection comprises manuscript versions of papers published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world’s first and longest continuously running journal dedicated to science.
Dates: 1802 - 1865
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