APPENDIX 



1738, in twenty-one volumes ; the Journal Book, containing minutes 

 of the Society's meetings from 1660 to the present time ; the Council 

 Minutes, from the foundation of the Society ; and a series of guard- 

 books, containing the original manuscripts of early memoirs com- 

 municated to the Society, arranged under subjects. The manuscripts 

 of the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings, and the papers 

 read before the Society but not published, are bound into volumes 

 and preserved for reference, as also are the Certificates of Candidature, 

 in which the qualifications of candidates are stated, and to which the 

 signatures of supporters are attached. 



All the above-mentioned manuscripts, and others not here 

 specified, are open to the inspection of Fellows, but the loan of 

 them is exclusively vested in the Council. (From the Record of the 

 Royal Society.} 



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. 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 Woolsthorpe. Presented by Rev. Chas. Turnor, F.R.S. 



3. Original Reflecting Telescope of Sir Isaac Newton, made 

 with his own hands in 1671. (Phil. Trans., vol. vii. p. 4004.) 

 Presented to the Royal Society by Messrs. Heath & Wing, Math. Inst. 

 Makers, Strand, London ; Feb. 6, 1766. 4 parts. 



4. The manuscript of the Principia, from which the First Edition 



was printed, with autograph corrections by Sir Isaac Newton. 



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