History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... appears , from the registers of the Society , that Dr. Edmund Halley , who had been appointed Clerk to the Society in 1686 , offered , on condition that the publication should be renewed , to furnish one fourth of the whole out of his ...
... appears , from the registers of the Society , that Dr. Edmund Halley , who had been appointed Clerk to the Society in 1686 , offered , on condition that the publication should be renewed , to furnish one fourth of the whole out of his ...
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... appears , as well from the council books and journals of the Society , as from the repeated declarations which have been made in several former Transactions , that the printing of them was always , from time to time , the single act of ...
... appears , as well from the council books and journals of the Society , as from the repeated declarations which have been made in several former Transactions , that the printing of them was always , from time to time , the single act of ...
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... appear to have been a Member of the Royal Society , and but few memorials of his life remain . He was born in 1642 , ap- pears to have been ... appears to have cultivated a small botanical garden . 22 [ Book I. HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY .
... appear to have been a Member of the Royal Society , and but few memorials of his life remain . He was born in 1642 , ap- pears to have been ... appears to have cultivated a small botanical garden . 22 [ Book I. HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY .
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From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century Thomas Thomson. he appears to have cultivated a small botanical garden . His zeal for botany was excessive ; he had correspondents in all parts of the world , and spared no ex ...
From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century Thomas Thomson. he appears to have cultivated a small botanical garden . His zeal for botany was excessive ; he had correspondents in all parts of the world , and spared no ex ...
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... appears from the obligations which Mr. Ray acknowledges to have lain under to him . About the year 1702 , he was appointed Consul at Smyrna , where he resided about 16 years , cultivating a botanic garden and forming his Herbarium ...
... appears from the obligations which Mr. Ray acknowledges to have lain under to him . About the year 1702 , he was appointed Consul at Smyrna , where he resided about 16 years , cultivating a botanic garden and forming his Herbarium ...
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