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Papers of William Hasledine Pepys include correspondence to and from various recipients, relating to various issues such as surgical instruments, club nominations and the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI), c1805-1862 in: Pep A (Green Folder), Pep B (Brown Folder), Pep C (1836 Folder), Pep D (Autographs), Pep E (Miscellanea). Pep F (Royal Institution) is a bound volume containing various notices of meetings, proposed bye-laws and accounts relating to the RI, 1806-1810.

Papers of the Gregory family. Volume One includes writings by Sir Isaac Newton, entitled 'Notae in Newtonii Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis' and his 'Theory of the Moon', which was incorporated in the Astronomia Physica published by the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. Volume Two contains letters and papers of the Gregory family: David Gregory of Kinnairdie; James Gregorie; David Gregorie; and Charles Gregory (Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University); also including some papers of Sir Isaac Newton.

Audio-visual recordings by or about Fellows of the Royal Society. The bulk of the collection consists of audio material, in particular cassette recordings of the Society's named lectures, which have been preserved in this manner since 1974. The remainder of the series has been acquired as supplementary material to the Personal Records (q.v.), although there are a few items which predate those autobiographies.

A biographical listing of the Fellows of the Royal Society 1663-1940 in the form of a sheaf catalogue compiled by William Bullock. Also includes other items, included from annotated copies of the 3rd and 4th editions of 'The Record of the Royal Society', from which the Roll derived its arrangement: lists of Medical Fellows, and Fellows who did not sign the Charter Book: and biogrphical accounts of the Auldjo family, with various rough notes by Bulloch. The Roll provides a chronological list of the Fellowship by date of election. It records the Fellow's name as it appeared in 'The Record' and in a corrected form, giving the date of election and positions held in the Society. The Roll also provides a short biography based on entries in standard printed works of reference, (such as 'The Dictionary of National Biography', Cockayne's 'Peerage' and 'Baronetage', 'The Gentleman's Magazine', 'Munks Roll of the Royal College of Physicians', Boase's 'Modern English Biography', and the volumes of 'Who's Who' and 'Who Was Who').

Papers of Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS (1923-2004), always known as Christopher, include correspondence, lecture notes and papers giving testimony to a long and varied career of over 50 years.

Certificates of Election and Candidature for the Royal Society. Early certificates are entirely manuscript, i.e. vols. 1-8 (1731-1840). Printed forms of ordinary certificates appear in volume 9 from November 1839 (candidates elected in 1840); printed forms for 'privileged class' elections were used from 1875, and for Foreign Membership from 1895. Not all certificates represent elected Fellows; a small percentage are for unsuccessful candidates.

The papers are not extensive and consist almost entirely of laboratory notebooks and working papers relating to his early work on molecular reactions and gas reactions, 1919-1938. There are also notes and reports of work on respirator design undertaken by Hinshelwood and his team for the Chemical Defence Board, Ministry of Supply, during the Second World War.

Photographs, engravings and other images of the Fellows of the Royal Society. Also includes manuscripts and objects of the Royal Society. They appear in various formats, whether in engravings, drawings, watercolours, paintings, sculpture, artefacts and photographs. There are also photographs of their manuscripts, works and publications.

Portrait photographs of Fellows of the Royal Society by the Godfrey Argent Studio.

Portrait photographs of Fellows of the Royal Society by companies of Henry Maull, namely: Maull and Polyblank; Maull, Henry and Co; Maull and Co; Maull and Fox.

A collection of medals and tokens, largely scientific awards, but with some miscellaneous items in base and precious metals. The core of the series consists of specimens of the Royal Society's own 15 medals and awards, from the earliest (the Copley Medal 1731) to the most recent (the Gabor Medal 1989). This includes some given to named Fellows and returned to the Society as gifts or bequests. Other items include prizes of foreign scientific academies, and pieces commemorating individual Fellows and Foreign Members.

Manuscripts of meteorological observations, with magnetic surveys and tide tables. The series contains 393 sets of results in all formats from tables to diaries, in all sizes from single sheets to runs of several volumes and from all areas of the world. This type of record has been solicited by the Society during several periods of its history. Its own observations until 1843 (when the duties were transferred to the Royal Greenwich Observatory) are recorded in 16 volumes for the period 1827-1843 (MA.230-249). Various other manuscripts cover the information gathering done by the Meteorological Committee.
Includes MA.154 observations sent by Michael Faraday to the Royal Society.

Original of letters sent to the Royal Society, generally on official business, and usually to Officers or Assistant Secretaries. The collection is effectively in two parts; letters for the period 1800-1899 are bound as 17 volumes; those for 1903-1925 are held unbound in boxes. The full sequence forms a single chronological archive with only occasional gaps, the most notable being the complete absence of the years 1900-1902 and 1920. From 1885, the series may be used in conjunction with the New Letter Books, which contain the corresponding outgoing letters.

Copy letters and notes by Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society, prefaced by a note on the volume's presentation by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton.

A volume of various alchemical tracts, by Philippe Rouillach and others. Notebook of Robert Boyle. 17. 'Preservatif apologetique' pour le meme. Folio 381, recto.

Mercantile Papers of Dr William Sherard, also known as Sherard Additional Letters.

'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.

Reports of 11 lectures on chemistry and 3 on electricity by Henry Dicks, with nine original letters and newspaper cuttings.

A collection of eighteenth century letters and papers of Sir Joseph Banks, his family and other contemporary Fellows.

Original Drawings of the Rotifera by Charles Thomas Hudson.

Incip. 'Igitur ex quatuor elementis'
Desin 'Et hoc est qod ostendimus. Explicit'
Folios 1-9 [Mundus] igitur ex quatuor elementis isdemque totis in spere modum globatis.... retrogradari facit.
Part of book 8, 'De astronomia' of Martinus Capella, 'De nuptiis.'

Folios 9 verso - 49 verso (Text) Vnitas est esse rei per se discrecio...omnis numerus minor maioris aut est pars aut partes....medios assignare sit possibile.
(Commentary) Aut enim minor numerat maiorem....et hoc est qod ostenimus. Explicit.

Jordanus Nemorariius, 'De Arithmetica' printed several times but with a different commentary. Printed marginalia eg in folio 24, in a hand which occurs also in MS/28.

Paper for reading before the Royal Society by an unknown author entitled, 'Nouvelles Recherches pour determiner les Longitudes en Mer par les Mouvements de la Lune et par une seule Observation'.

'Instruments of the Eskadlemuir Observatory', by A E Gendle with photographs and short descriptions interleaved.

'De ormesta mundi' by Orosius, some 16th century marginalia, Pauli Orosii Historiarum libri septem.

Daily written observations and pencil sketches of volcanic activity, kept by Father Antonio Piaggi, July 1779-August 1794, on behalf of Sir William Hamilton, Piaggi was based at the Madonna Pugliano near Resina at the western side of Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples. With an additional volume dedicated to the major eruption of 1779, (originally volume 1 of the sequence). The volumes have occasional inserted material.

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

An extensive collection of photographs and drawings of the after-effects of the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857, collected by Robert Mallet (FRS 1854) including 120 stereoscopic cards by Alphonse Bernoud and 36 individual studies by C V Grillet.

A catalogue of books of the library of Robert Boyle, in the hand of John Warr junior, executor of Robert Boyle and some theological notes.

Sir Robert Southwell's Lecture on water at the Royal Society, 8 Apr 1675.

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

Letters to Thomas Young from Messrs Arago, Biot, Bessel and Bergelius.

Memorials of the Lives of the Right Reverend Father in God, Matthew Wren DD Lord Bishop of Ely, Christopher Wren DD Dean of Windsor, and Sir Christopher Wren, Knight, Surveyor-General of the Royal Buildings by CW, July 1741.

Astronomical Observations at the Radcliffe Observatory Oxford from 1915 to 1938.

Bessel's Stars from 0 degrees to 15 degrees South, brought up by precession from 1825 to 1875 by R C Carrington.

Mathematical works of Pappus Alexandrinus, stated by JO Halliwell that this was copied from Savilian MS number 9 for William Jones the mathematician.

Minutes of Visitations of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, together with relevant extracts from the Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society.

'The Marine Atlas. A New Invention for the Preservation of Ships and Security of Mariners. Humbly offered to the Public in its unfinished state, as an Excitement to Industry and Ingenuity', by Thomas South, dedicated to Dr Blagden, Secretary to the Royal Society, 12 December 1786. There are documents at the end of this volume proving that the author had a claim to the prior invention of a material for making flexible air vessels, as applicable to nautical purposes. A French memoir on the same subject, as well as a specimen of the material, are inserted.

Copy of 'Memoires of Naturall Remarques in the county of Wilts, to which are annexed observabes of the same kind in the county of Surrey and Flynt-shire', by John Aubrey, FRS. This manuscript is a transcript of Aubrey's original manuscript. It was transcribed by BG Cramer, Clerk to the Royal Society, at the behest of the Society in 1690-1691. At page 67 is inserted a map of a navigable passage from Bristol to London, engraved by Thomas Jenner in 1668, with the arms of the borough. Six leaves of additional matter are inserted at page 276, and four more at page 304.

Correspondence, mainly to Martin Folkes on a large variety of subjects, including administrative matters for the Royal Society.

Letters addressed to William Buckland (DD, FRS, Dean of Westminster and Reader in Mineralogy and Geology in University of Oxford) and other posthumous correspondence relating to his work.

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

Observations at Greenwich Observatory by the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, DD, FRS, covering; transits 1765-1810; zeniths 1765-1810 and observations of comets 1769-1790.

A small notebook containing parliamentary and other speeches.

An account of the shipwreck of the 'Johanna', commanded by Captain Robert Brown near the Cape of Good Hope on 29 May 1682, and of the subsequent fate of the crew.

Letters and papers of Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe including scientific letters to T E Thorpe from colleagues, with documents relating to the Chemical Warfare Committee of the International Law Association. Containing also Thorpe's own letters to family members, his testimonials for work appointments and obituary notices.

Letters and papers of Alexander Gordon Laing chiefly relating to his last and fatal expedition to Timbuktoo.

Collected papers of William Fletcher Barrett including letters to Barrett with supporting documents by Barrett on scientific interests and some photographs.

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

Alphabetical Index to the Printed Minutes of the Council of the Royal Society, 1845, in the hand of Dr Roget.

A list of objects presented to the Royal Society Museum, 1744-1779.