KKCORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



with tin sjo-Matuivs or names of proposers and supporters appended; these 

 began with tin- year 1731. 



In addition to the volumes above enumerated there are four long sets of 



i-!>ooks. of which OIK- consists of thirty-nine volumes and includes the MSS. 



Iv memoirs communicated to the Society, grouped for the most part under 



subjects. This scries contains documents dating from before the grant of the 



tec to the year 1741. It consists of about 2,500 items, which have 



ilv been completely catalogued by Sir Arthur Church, F.R.S., under the 



title- of 'Classified Papers 1 , and an alphabetical list of the authors with 



DOtt lia> been printed by him. 1 The second series of guard-books is 



arranged chronologically, and comprises both memoirs and letters to the 



number of .'5,G.")0. It consists of 127 Volumes and covers the period 1741 to 



I son. This series has also been catalogued by Sir Arthur Church. 2 The 



third and fourth Aeries consist of the original MSS. of (i) papers which have 



published in the 'Philosophical Transactions ' and the ' Proceedings ', and 



(ii) the papers read before the Society but 'archived', without being published. 



These are hound in separate sets, and are preserved in the lower part of the 



Society's building. 



Other MSS. connected with individual Fellows are the great collection of 

 Boyle papers, bound in fifty-three volumes; five volumes of Dr. Sherard's 

 correspondence, being letters addressed to William Sherard, F.R.S., many years 

 British Consul at Smyrna and founder of the Sherardian Professorship of 

 Botany at Oxford; and the Boole MSS., being six cases of papers by 

 Prof. George Boole. F.R.S., relating to mathematics and logic. These 

 collections are classified and arranged. The Sherard letters have been 

 numbered and catalogued and an Index Nominum to them has been printed by 

 Sir Arthur Church. 



All the manuscripts in the Archives are available for consultation by 

 I-Vllows of the Society and persons duly introduced, under conditions pre- 

 by Statute (Chap. XVI). 



Some Account of the "Classified Papers" in the Archives [of the Royal Society] 

 \\ith an Index of Authors, compiled by A. H. Church, D.Sc., F.R.S., Oxford, Printed for 



tin- Author, I'.X)?.' In addition to what is contained in tins pamphlet Sir Arthur Church 

 pareil a complete manuscript catalogue of the titles of the Papers in this series, 

 forminir a larire folio volume. By this great labour he has provided the Society with 

 tl of readily finding any paper belonging 1 to the period named. 



.nit of the li Letters and Papers" of the Period 1741-1806 in the Archives 



|of the Koyal Society] with an Index of Authors, compiled by A. H. Church, D.Sc., F.R.S., 



!. I'nnte.l for the Author, 11HM.' In this case also Sir Arthur Church has compiled 



a voliiminoii- manuscript Calendar of the subjects of the letters and papers, thereby greatly 



itiiiir ret'erenre to them. These manuscript volumes are deposited in the Library 



nf (he ! ety. 



