WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY 41 



Grew, Nehemiah, ' Musacum Regalis Societatis : or a Catalogue and 

 Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal 

 Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge." 1 Folio. London 1681. 



Grew, Neheniiah, 'The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philo- 

 sophical History of Plants, and several other Lectures read before the 

 Royal Society. 1 Folio. London 1682. 



Willughby, F., Historia Piscium.' London 1686. 



Ray, John, * Historia Plantarum, Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper 

 multas noviter inventas et descriptas complectens . . .' Folio. 2 vols. 

 Londini 1686-8. 



Flamsteed, John, ' Tide-table for 1687. 1 



Papin, Denis, ' A Continuation of the New Digester of Bones ; together with 

 some Improvements and new Uses of the Air-pump. 1 4to. London 1687. 



Newton, Isaac, ' Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Autore 

 Is. Newton.' Imprimatur : S. Pepys, Reg. Soc. Praeses. Julii 5, 1686. 

 4to. Londini 1687. 1 



Malpighi, Marcello, ' Opera Posthuma."' Folio. Londini 1697. 



'Commercium Epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum de Analysi 

 promota : jussu Societatis Regiae in lucem editum. 1 4to. Londini 1712. 2 



The foundation of the Royal Society was hailed as a notable 

 event by some of the most eminent literary men of the day. 

 Dryden in graceful verses extolled the achievements of Bacon, and 

 the work of his successors in the paths of experimental philosophy. 3 

 Co wley, whose keen interest in the advancement of that philosophy 

 has been already referred to, composed a laudatory ode on the 

 Royal Society which appeared in 1667, prefixed to Sprat's History 

 of the Society. But these early felicitations were soon succeeded 

 by effusions of a wholly different tone. The general community 

 was not yet prepared to welcome so novel an experiment as the 

 association of a company of leisured men for the* purpose, not of 



1 ' Ordered That Mr. Newton's book be printed forthwith in a quarto of a fair letter. 

 Journal-book, May 19, 1686. 



' Ordered that Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that E. Halley shall undertake the 

 business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.' 

 Council Minutes, June 2, 1686. The funds of the Society had been exhausted by the 

 publication of Willughby's book on fishes. 



' Ordered that the President be desired to licence Mr. Newton's book entitule 

 " Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica", and dedicated to the Society.' Council 

 Minutes, June 30, 1686. 



2 Some of the more important separate publications of subsequent years will be found 

 enumerated at p. 278. 



8 Epistle to Dr. Charleton. 



