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Corporate records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited, including incorporation certificates; memorandum, articles of association and guarantee agreements; board of directors' minute and agenda books; committee agenda book; annual general meetings: notice, proposed articles and special resolutions passed; annual reports; registers of directors and secretaries; and seal book.

Financial and accounting records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company including journal, private ledger, and liquidator's report.

Premises records of Allied Traders Insurance Company, comprising deeds and correspondence relating to 1 Gordon Place and 43 Nicholas Street.

Premises records of City of London Life Assurance comprising an assignment of lease.

Business records of Eagle Insurance Company including indexes of lives assured; individual life policies, assignments and related correspondence; life prospectuses, specimen proposal forms, medical reports and related papers; premium receipts and cheques; Eagle fund annual accounts, quinquennial reports and related papers; fire policies; newspapers, press cuttings and advertisements relating to Eagle Star; prospectuses for foreign business; and correspondence from Bristol branch.

Business records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including papers relating to marine, fire, motor, life, pluvius and general insurance; papers relating to war loan, branches, agents and overseas organisation; and publicity material.

Premises records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including papers, correspondence, plans and photographs relating to office premises, branches in England and Scotland, and property investments.

Premises records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited comprising dinner menu on the opening of new offices.

Corporate records of Fred Haigh and Company Limited comprising memorandum and articles of association, board of directors' minute book.

Corporate records of the Home and Overseas Insurance Company Limited comprising annual reports and accounts, and amalgamation papers.

Business records of the London Mutual Life and Guarantee Society comprising policy for Mark Lemon; unused proposal, policy and related forms, and list of medical referees.

Corporate records of Liverpool Reversionary Company Limited including board of directors' draft and signed minutes, audited accounts, register of directors and secretaries, and file relating to corporate exemption under Moneylenders Act.

Business records of Palladium Life Assurance Society including propectuses; life instruction book; proposals; re-registrations of judgements on Irish cases; contents of 'Box 1299, including stamped letters, prospectuses, proposal forms, receipts, copies of Post Magazine, letter books and other papers; newspaper reports and papers relating to 'Box 1299'; and advertisement.

Business records of Publishers and General Insurance Company Limited comprising specimen policies.

Shares records of Philatelic Insurances Limited including register of members and directors, with transfers; share transactions; share certificate counterfoils; and register of directors' shareholdings.

Business records of Premier Motor Policies Limited including letters, circulars and specimen policies; agency appointments: application; and specimen appointment forms.

Corporate records of Sceptre Life Association Limited including board of directors minutes, reports of proceedings at annual general meetings, and annual reports and accounts.

Business records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including policy registers; policies and papers relating to individual policies; prospectuses and almanacs; endowment rates; specimen bonuses; rate books; fund: accounts, reports, stock exchange transactions, ledgers, journals, correspondence and papers; aircraft insurance policy; diaries; agents' instructions and commission rates; prospectuses for overseas business; Australia: letters and share certificates; South Africa: details of annual bonuses, correspondence, rate books; and Star bookmarks.

Staff records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including papers and correspondence relating to Jesse Hobson and J.D. Watson.

Business records of Star Fire Insurance Company including fire policies and Secretary's receipt to agent.

Business records of Star Assurance Society Limited comprising specimen policy: Fine Arts.

Financial records of Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Limited including papers relating to war bonds and cash book.

Corporate records of Trent Insurance Company Limited including agreements, board of directors' minute book, and reinsurance agreements with Eagle Star.

Papers of Professor Thomas Richard Parsons, 1922-1959, including correspondence, lecture notes and memoranda, mainly 1920s-1930s.

Records created and used by St Agnes' Home, Pevensey Bay, Sussex. Includes the following: Minutes of the local committee, 1952-1968; Admissions registers, 1947-1972.

'Libro varissimo del Conte Guido di materia fisiche e mathematiche' A volume of alchemical tracts. Items 7, 9, 18, part of 19 and 23 are all in one hand; items 11 to 15 are in another; the remainder are in various hands. Most of the items appear to date from the early or middle 17th century, to judge by the hands, though the matter is in most cases probably much older.

Eclipses 1882-2000: Rough projections of eclipses of the sun and moon by Samuel J. Johnson, includes a letter from the author dated 25 March 1882 written at Melplash Vicarage Bridport.

'Tables of Specific Gravities extracted from various Authors with Notes. To which is prefixed a Critic on the Authors of these Experiments' compiled by Richard Davies.

Scrap book of drawings by Richard Waller attached is a report by Dr Christopher J Brooke entitled 'Avebury - Multispectral Photographic Examination of manuscript drawing in pencil by John Aubrey' made 23 February 1989 referring to MS/131/67.

Notes on John Canton's pneumatical experiments, together with some rough minutes of the Canton Committee.

Apollonii Conica methodo nova illustrata et succincte demonstrata per Isaacum Barrow, continet hoc volumen archetypon integrum editionis Londini 1675, in forma quarta, impressa.

Manuscript of Isaac Barrow containing Archimedes' works on spheres and cylinders, on the dimensions of the circle, on spirals or helices and other topics.

Manuscript of a treatise on logic by John Wallis, 1685.

Signatures of Fellows or their agents, showing them to have received their copies of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

Letters and papers relating to the Cook Medal struck by the Royal Society in honour of Captain Cook.

Paper by Colonel John Herschel entitled 'History of Pendulum Observations from the time of Galileo to the present day' (1880).

Operations connected with the Levellings carried across the Isthmus of Panama by John Augustus Lloyd, c 1830.

Diploma and Certificates given to Michael Faraday by various academies and societies with table of contents written in his own hand by Michael Faraday.

Researches in Solar Physics by Warren de la Rue FRS, Balfour Stewart FRS and B Loewry.

Angelander's Stars from 15 degrees to 30 degrees South, brought up by precession from 1850-1875 by Richard Christopher Carrington.

Latin translation attributed to Abelard of Bath, of Euclid's geometry ending imperfectly near the beginning of book 15 in the propsition 'intra propsitum cubum corpus habens iiij bases triangulas equalium laterum resignare'. Written in England

A mathematical dissertation by Boemke written at Berlin, 1827.

'Memoir au College Royal de Medecine sur l'utilite d'un Tratement simple pour les Maladies Chirurgicales en genral, etc', by Louis Desbout MD. Contains 7 sheets of drawings of instruments and appliances and illustrations of how they are used.

A sixteenth century manuscript which includes:

1. The order for the king's suite

2. The order of the kinges going to the chappell on Sherethursdaie, and from thence into the hall

3. The book showing what appertains to the offices of the king's chamberlains, vice chamberlains, and ushers

4. The order for the banquet at Greenwich on St Thomas's day, 9 Henry VIII, and other similar matters. Includes a diagram.

'The extraordinary history of a new method of inoculating discovered in the kingdom of England', by Alexander Pearson.

Kew Observatory Sunspot measurements from 24 January 1864 to 9 April 1872.

Plans and surveys of the Royal Society's lands at Acton and Mablethorpe.

A small notebook containing parliamentary and other speeches.

Inspectors' Visitation of the Royal Society Library, 1768-1769 and 1777.

A list of presents to the Royal Society, 1831-1849.