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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1811

Reference number: PT/5

Date: November 1809 - July 1811

Description

Unbound manuscript versions of papers published by the Royal Society in volume 101 of 'Philosophical Transactions' in 1811. Also includes a manuscript for William Hyde Wollaston's Croonian Lecture, published in the 1810 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 1811 volume of Philosophical Transactions:
'The Bakerian Lecture. On some of the combinations of oxymuriatic gas and oxygene, and on the chemical relations of these principles, to inflammable bodies' by Humphry Davy (found in PT/4);
'An account of an appendix to the small intestines of birds' by James Macartney.

Reference number
PT/5
Earliest possible date
November 1809 - July 1811
Physical description
Loose manuscript papers written in ink
Page extent
One box containing 18 papers and one letter
Format
Manuscript

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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1811, November 1809 - July 1811, PT/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5/manuscripts-of-papers-published-in-philosophical-transactions-1811, accessed on 19 March 2025

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    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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