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dates are stated, and to which the signatures of supporters are 

 attached. 



All the above-mentioned MSS., and others not here specified, are 

 open to the inspection of Fellows, but the loan of them is exclusively 

 vested in the Council. 



INSTRUMENTS AND HISTORICAL RELICS IN THE 

 POSSESSION OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



RELICS OF SIR 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. Tumor, F.R.S., 

 to whose family the house belonged. 



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



Woolsthorpe. Presented by Rev. GTias. 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. 



OTHER RELICS AND INSTRUMENTS. 



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

 the Hon. Robert Boyle, in 1662. 



