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Melicérta, from 'The Drawings of the Rotifer' by Charles Thomas Hudson. Catalogue reference: MS/132
Turning the pages
Welcome to 'Turning the Pages' - a gallery of high quality scans of some of the important and beautiful volumes in our collection. Click on one of the images below to open an item.
This project was made possible with generous support from The John S. Cohen Foundation, Wellcome Trust and the British Library.
Historia Piscium, 1686
First Journal Book of the Royal Society, 1660-1663
Charter Book
Catalogue of the Royal Society Repository
Musaeum Regalis Societatis
Meetings of the Royal Society, 1686-1691
Meetings of the Royal Society, 1693-1698
Meetings of the Royal Society, 1699-1702
Meetings of the Royal Society, 1702-1707
Meetings of the Royal Society, 1707-1711
Micrographia
Photographs of British algae, 1843
Fossil notebook by Henry James
Anatomical studies by Andrew van Rymsdyk
British grasses and wildflowers by Richard Waller
Drawings of the Rotifer, 1886
Specimens of Calligraphy Anonymous
Account of the house martin by Gilbert White
Stilling the waters by Benjamin Franklin
Musical instruments from the South Seas by Joshua Steele
On iron bridges by Thomas Paine
Arctic Seas Diary by Edward Sabine
On Japan by Carl Peter Thunberg
West Africa Expedition by Alexander Gordon Laing
Letters from the Peruvian Andes by Joseph Barcroft
Embassy to China by Samuel Holmes
Reports from Antarctica by Robert Falcon Scott
Constitutions of Carolina by John Locke
Robert Boyle Papers, Volume 8 'Philosophy', late 17th century
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life by William Stukeley
Diary of the Second World War by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
Diary of the contruction of Jodrell Bank radio telescope by Bernard Lovell
Visitors' Book of the Birr Castle Observatory by Various authors
Memoir of my singular history by Benjamin Wilson