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1. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
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1 item

2. 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'...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1736-1738
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1 item

3. Add MS 4435

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 285). (1) 'Defectus solis observatus e specula Bononiensis scientiarum instituti ... referente Eustachio Manfredio', 15 Aug. 1738. Printed. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, p. 94. ff. 1-2b. (2) Account of electrical experiments by Jean Théophile Desaguliers; 1738, 173...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1738-1739
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1 item

4. Add MS 4436

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. V. (ff. 246). (1) 'Dissertation concerning the Measure of the Force of Bodies in Motion,' by J. T. Desaguliers; 29 Mar. 1739. ff. 1-10. (2) 'A New Method of improving and perfecting Catadioptrical Telescopes', by Caleb Smith; 5 Apr. 1739. Cf. Phil. Trans., xli, p. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1735-1760
Extent:
1 item

5. 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, ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1716-1761
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1 item

6. Add MS 4455

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COMMONPLACE-BOOK OF JOHN BENNET, of Hart Hall, Oxford (see note on f. 3 'Sum e libris Johannis Bennet ex aula Cervina, Sept. 29, 1672, pret. 6 [d]'). The parts of the MS. left blank by Bennet were later used as a commonplace book by the Rev. John King (1652-1732), of Exeter College, Oxford, D.D....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1672-1725
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1 item

7. Add MS 34195

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COLLECTION of original letters, warrants, and papers, many of which refer to the expenses of the Tower Establishment and other offices, the repayment of Crown Loans, tho transfer of South Sea Stock, etc.; 1576-1763. On f. 29 is a portrait of Sir Edward Dering, 1st Bart., engraved by Geo. Glover after Corn. Johnson [sc. Janssens] in 1640. Included are:- 1. [Sir] Owen Hopton, Lieutenant of the Tower, to " Good Mr. Peter " [Robert Petre, Teller of the Exchequer], respecting his last quarter's...
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Richard Ingoldsby, Brigadier-General: Expense of his keep - in the Tower: 1698. Sir William Cecil, Baron Burghley 1571; Lord Treasurer 1572: Letter to, from the Dep. Lieutenants of co. Hereford: 1598. London, England: Warrants, accompts, etc., relating to the Tower: 1576-1763. includes: f. 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1576-1763
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1 item

8. Add MS 61649

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BLENHEIM PAPERS. Vol. DXLIX (ff. 208). (1) Letters from Col. Thomas Collier, Deputy Governor of Jersey, preceded (f. 3) by a letter to Hedges; 1706-1710. Partly French. ff. 1-33b. (2) Letters to Sunderland and one of his Under-Secretaries from John Chamberlayne, chiefly relating to Protestan...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1706-1721
Extent:
1 item

9. MS Facsimile Suppl I K

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MS Facsimile Suppl I K
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(k) Photographs of two deeds executed and signed by Sir Thomas More: (i) Sale of lease of property in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street, London, 20 Jan. 15 Hen. VIII [1524]; (ii) Grant of lands in Chelsea, co Midd., 25 Mar. 25 Hen. VIII [1534]. Presented by Dunn, Esq. Sir Thomas More, Lord Chance...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1911
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1 item

10. Sloane MS 1968

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Sloane MS 1968
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Sloane 1968 Paper, in Quarto, ff. 229, XVIII Century; containing Miscellaneous Letters and Papers of Dr. John Gaspar Scheuchzer, M. D., F. R. S., and Sir Hans Sloane. 1. Note from Daniel Malthus to [Sir Hans Sloane], desiring him at the Queen's [Anne] command, to attend a consultation of Physi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item