Memoirs and Papers sent to the Royal Society of London

Letters and papers sent to the Royal Society of London, and mostly published in the Philosophical Transactions. Most are initialled by Martin Folkes and endorsed with the dates when they were read to the Society.

1745-1748

65 items Partly printed.

Mainly purchased at various Sotheby's, Stevens' and Glendining's sales, 1932-34, especially Stevens' 14-15 Aug. 1934, lots 283-294.

Additional to MSS. 1302, 2391-2392.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

These papers supplement the Royal Society papers in the British Library (Add. MSS. 4432-4448) as well as the Society's own archive. Cf. A H Church, The Royal Society. Some account of the 'Letters and Papers' of the period 1741-1806 in the archives (Oxford, 1908) and Keith Moore and Mary Sampson, A guide to the archives and manuscripts of the Royal Society (London, 1995).