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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Index, listing the discourses and experiments missing from Register Book 2ii

Reference number: RBO/2ii/0

Date: 1662

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The catalogue is preceded by a title page noting that this register is 'very uncorrect', as missing various of the papers and experiments from the original register, RBO/2i which had been misplaced at the death of the first Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg. The volume was finally found by Hans Sloane during his secretaryship in April 1703. The catalogue lists 23 items missing from RBO/2ii with their corresponding page numbers in RBO/2i and notes that two items are only included in RBO/2ii.

Reference number
RBO/2ii/0
Earliest possible date
1662
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Index, listing the discourses and experiments missing from Register Book 2ii, 1662, RBO/2ii/0, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_2ii_0/index-listing-the-discourses-and-experiments-missing-from-register-book-2ii, accessed on 05 March 2026

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    The 'Register Books Originals' contain copies of scientific papers submitted to the Society and considered for publication. The papers were transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.

    Dates: 1661 - 1739

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