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1. Add MS 4432-4448

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Add MS 4432-4448
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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS Collections relating to the Royal Society (incorporated in 1662) made by Thomas Birch while Secretary of the Society (1752-1765), consisting of letters, articles or communications sent for consideration, many of which were subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, draft minutes, etc. 1660-1765. Seventeen volumes. Paper. Folio. The chief contents are as follows:-
Scope & Content:
Royal Society: Papers rel. to: 1662-1765.: Engl., Lat., Fr. and Germ.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1660-1765
Extent:
17 items

2. Add MS 4443-4444

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Letters relating to the transactions of the Royal Society addressed chiefly to Thomas Birch and other secretaries, or to successive Presidents, or to the Society itself as a body. Some refer to papers and communications included in Add. MSS. 4432-4441. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Two volumes (not arranged in strict order of date); 1663-1765.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 4434

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 327). (1) An account by Dr. Thomas Stack of a tract entitled 'Johannis Matthaei Barthii ... de Culice Dissertatio'; 1737. ff. 1-2b. (2) Accounts by Mark Catesby, F.R.S., of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur's 'Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1736-1738
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4440

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 302). (1) An answer by John Ellis, F.R.S., to remarks by Philip Miller, F.R.S., on the toxicodendron or varnish tree of Carolina; 19 Jan. 1758. Cf. Phil. Trans., 1, pp. 430, 44 1. ff. 1-11. (2) Henry Eeles to T. Birch on electricity and magnetism; Lismore, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1716-1761
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4439

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 330). (1) Raimond Cap to the Royal Society, on the squaring of the circle; Château Thierry sur Marne, 20 Feb. 1749. French. ff. 1-3. (2) Fulgence Depourier, 'de l'ordre des Augustins,' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, with problems on 'La Trissection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1749-1757
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4432

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Add MS 4432
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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 392). (1) 'Dr [William] Croon's account of the weight of a Carp'; 1663. f. 1. (2) 'Remarks on the Journal of [Thomas] Batts and [Robert] Fallam, in their Discovery of the Western Parts of Virginia in 1671', by John Mitchell, M.D., F.R.S.; aft. 1755. The jour...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4443

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Vol. XII (ff. 253). 1663-1765. Francis Hauksbee, the younger; scientific writer: Letters to T. Birch: 1736-1761. includes: ff. 1-3 Theodore Haak, d 1690 FRS; translator: Correspondence with J. Pell: 1643-1664.: Germ. and Engl.ff. 1-3 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4444

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Vol. XIII (ff. 295). 1663-1765. includes: f. 1 Charles Mason, astronomer: Letter to Lord Macclesfield: 1762.f. 4 Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, French astronomer: Letter to J. Bevis: 1762.: Fr., with Engl. transl.f. 6 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield: Letter to the Duke of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1765
Extent:
1 item