NOTES 
INVENTORY OF RIGAUD PAPERS 1N BODLEIAN LIBRARY, 
OxForD, ENGLAND 
The accompanying list of the papers of Prof. Stephen Peter 
Rigaud, which, after his death in 1839, were deposited in the 
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England, was kindly sent to the writer 
by Mr. Ralph J. Beevor, M.A. (Trin. Coll., Cambridge), 22 Craven 
Street, Strand, London, W. C., with a letter dated at the Limes, 
Weybridge, Surrey, Easter Monday, April 13, 1903. This is a 
valuable collection of inedited material, the existence and general 
nature of which should be widely known. The list below is copied 
exactly from Mr. Beevor’s memorandum, the notes being also his, 
made after ‘a (necessarily) cursory examination” while at Oxford 
for a day’s visit. 
I. Bayer, C: J. Unanometria. 1654. 
2. 5 papers relating to Hadley and the quadrant invented by him. 
3. Sandersoni Physica. 
4. Professor Saunderson’s lectures upon hydrostatics. 
5. Pound. 
6. Bradley. 
7, 8. Hailey [7. e. Halley; see note below]. 
g. Scient. biogr. 
10, 11. Hearne. 
12. Indexes. 
13. 2 alphabetical catalogues of books. 
14, 15. Horrox. Transcripts of MSS. at Greenwich. 
16-22. Mathematical Tracts. 7 vols. 
23-33. Commonplace books, 1807-1837; 11 vols. (with loose index to vols. 
Q-II1). 
34. A memorandum of Dr. Bradley’s lectures. 
35. Hadley, Harriot and Lower. 
36. Miscellaneous. 
37. Halley & Stirling. 
38. Letters of scientific men, 18th cent. 
39. Copy of Act of Parliament on Marquis of Worcester’s water command- 
ing engine. 
40-59. Loose papers between boards mostly octavo size; lettered A-U. 
40. A. Miscellaneous. 
41. B. Miscellaneous. 
42. C. Delambre, Lelande & Vinch. 
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