The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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MS 417

Royal Society of London Archives, Royal Society of London, London, Gresham College, Crane Court

Date:c. 1765 Documents in Manuscript: [An Inventory of the Subjects of Natural History ... An Inventory of such Antiquities](Catalogue)
 Annotation:"[A] later fair-written Inventory in two parts: [1] An Inventory of the Subjects of Natural History in the Repository of the Royal Society. Nov. 17th 1763. [marked] 415, with which MS it presumably belongs. [2] An Inventory of such Antiquities ... as are now in the Repository ... Nov. 21st 1765" (LeFanu, 111).

See also Simpson. Bibliographic Source(s): Nehemiah Grew: A Study and Bibliography ..., page: 111
Newton's Telescope and the Cataloguing o..., page: passim