The Archives also include large collections of the personal papers of some of the twentieth century's leading scientists, including Howard Florey, Otto Loewi, Henry Dale, John Vane and Thomas Gold.
Other items of interest include the minutes of Royal Society meetings from 1660 onwards, including those of Council and Committees from 1663 onwards.
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Minutes of meetings from 1660 onwards
Minutes of Council and Committees from 1663 onwards
Council Documents 1900-1930
Minutes of Officers and Agenda 1926-87
Domestic Manuscripts 1662-1884
Modern Domestic Archives 1870-1981
Account Books 1660-1768, 1867-1976
Deeds, Charters from 1662 and Charter Book
Press cuttings and printed ephemera
Letter Books 1661-1740, 1885-1931
Royal Society Letters 1737-1799
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1800-1925
International Relations Archive 1963-1978
Register Books 1661-1738
Early Letters 1656-1740
Classified Papers 1660-1741
Letters and Papers 1741-1806
Philosophical Transactions 1807-1865
Archived Papers from 1768
Proceedings Papers 1882-1894
Referees Reports from 1832 onwards
Meteorological Archives 1706-1915
Certificates of Election and Candidature from 1731 onwards
Bullochs Roll 1663-1940
Sound, Film and Video Recordings from 1931 onwards
This series was created to encompass all collections of documents that were not generated by the Society itself but were created by or relate to Fellows. Date coverage is from the 15th century onwards. The series also contains some in-house records.
Single manuscript letters or small groups of related documents
Sir Frederick Charles Bawden (1908-1972), plant pathologist
Lord Blackett (1897-1974), nuclear physicist
Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), physician
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), natural philosopher and chemist
Sir George Lindor Brown (1903-1971), physiologist
Sir Henry Dale (1875-1968), physiologist-pharmacist
Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton (1886-1959), engineer
Lord Florey (1898-1968), experimental pathologist
Sir John Henry Gaddum (1900-1965), pharmacologist
Thomas Gold (1920-2004), astronomer
Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), astronomer
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967), physical chemist, biochemist
Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946), mathematician, physicist, astronomer
Otto Loewi (1873-1961), pharmacologists and physiologist
Sir John Lubbock (1803-1865), astronomer
Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975), chemist
Sir Francis Eugen Simon (1893-1956), physicist
John Smeaton (1724-1792), civil engineer
Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), plant ecologist
Sir Harold Warris Thompson (1908-1983), physical chemist