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INSTRUMENTS AND HISTORICAL RELICS 



i. RELICS OF Siu ISAAC NEWTON 



1. Solar Dial cut in stone, made by the hand of Sir Isaac Newton when 



a boy, taken out in 1844 from the wall of the Manor House at 

 Woolsthorpe, in which he was born, and presented the same year 

 to the Royal Society by the Rev. Chas. Turnor, F.R.S., to whose 

 family the house belonged. 



2. Two rules made of the wood of Sir Isaac Newton's apple-tree at Wools- 



thorpe. Presented by Rev. Chas. Tumor, F.R.S. 



3. Original Reflecting Telescope of Sir Isaac Newton, made with his own 



hands, in 1671. ('Phil. Trans.,' vol. 7, p. 4004.) Presented to the 

 Royal Society by Messrs. Heath and Wing, Math. Inst. Makers, Strand, 

 London; Feb. 6, 1766. 4 parts. 



4. The MS. of the ' Principia \ from which the First Edition was printed, 



with autograph corrections by Sir Isaac Newton. 



5. An autograph order, dated July 27, 1720, addressed by Sir Isaac Newton 



to Dr. John Francis Ffouquier, directing him to apply certain sums 

 belonging to Newton in purchasing, on Newton's account, South Sea 

 Stock. Presented by Dr. Wollaston, P.R.S. 



6. The original mask of Newton's face, which belonged to Roubiliac, from the 



cast taken after death. Presented in 1839 by Prof. Hunter Christie, 

 Sec.R.S. 



7. Sir Isaac Newton's Watch. 



8. A lock of Sir I. Newton's Hair. Presented by Henry Garling, Oct. 25, 1847. 



9. Armchair, formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton. Bequeathed in 1812 



to Richard Saumarez. Bequeathed to the Royal Society in 1891 by the 

 late Mr. Thomas Kerslake, of Clevedon. 



ii. OTHER RELICS AND INSTRUMENTS 



1. Air-pump, with double barrel. Presented to the Royal Society by the 



Hon. Robert Boyle, in 1662. 



2. Sir William Petty's Double-bottomed boat. 



' Upon the reading of a letter, sent out of Ireland to the Secretary, concerning the 

 expectation, which 'the Committee, that heretofore had given the Society au 

 Account of S r William Petty's new ship, did entertain for hearing the sense of the 

 Society thereupon, it was 



'Ordered, That the Committee should be put in minde by the Secretary that 

 the Matter of Navigation, being a State-concerne, was not proper to be managed by 

 the Society ; And that S r William Petty, for his private satisfaction, may, when 

 he pleases, have the sense (if he hath it not already) of particular Members of the 

 Society, concerning his new Invention.' Council Minutes, May 27, 1663. 



' The Papers of the next Philosophical Transactions, having been considered of, 

 and the account therein given concerning the Structure and Advantages of S r William 

 Petty's Double-bottom'd ship ; it was resolved, that the publication of them should 

 be differed, till his Ma*7 had been made acquainted with the particulars therein, 

 relating to the said ship.' Council Minutes, April 26, 1665. 



