Boyle Papers Volume 38

Extent: 162 folios
Date: Late 17th century
Description: Folio-size volume; foliated; 19th-century contents leaf: Miscellaneous
Physical description: Manuscript
Note: The final page, fol. 162v, is wholly blank and has been omitted.
The first slip of paper on fol. 29 has text on verso. There is a fol. 98X as well as a fol. 98.

Fols. 1-5 (5 leaves): MS version of 'Articles of Inquiry Touching Mines' (Phil. Trans., 1666).
Fols. 6-10 (5 leaves): Notes and sections of text on natural philosophy.
Fol. 11 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Specific Medicines.
Fols. 12-14 (3 leaves): Unpublished passages of medical works.
Fol. 15 (1 leaf): Geographical observations.
Fols. 16-17 (2 leaves): Observations concerning a refrigerated/heated loadstone.
Fol. 18 (1 leaf): Scientific notes.
Fol. 19 (1 leaf): Latin medical notes.
Fols. 20-1 (2 leaves): Pasted up snippets of text.
Fol. 22 (1 leaf): Notes on human imperfection and divine perfection, and things to remember in various writings.
Fol. 23 (1 leaf): MS version of a section of 'Medica Praescripta Commicata R.B'.
Fol. 24 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 40, part 2].
Fol. 25 (1 leaf): Brief notes of things to remember in various treatises (cf. BP 38, fol. 22); dated 'Aprill the 25th'.
Fol. 26 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Examen.
Fols. 27-30 (4 leaves): Pasted-up notes, including fragments of Usefulness.
Fol. 31 (1 leaf): Passage of text on gems and causes of shining 'salino-sulphureous Particles'.
Fol. 32 (1 leaf): Fragment of superseded version of part of Hydrostatical Paradoxes.
Fol. 33 (1 leaf): MS versions of two passages in General History of Air.
Fol. 34 (1 leaf): Text related to Paralipomena.
Fol. 35 (1 leaf): Diagram of triangle.
Fol. 36 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
Fols. 37-9 (3 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's dialogue 'Of the Requisites of a Good Hypothesis.
Fols. 40-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Effluviums.
Fol. 42 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 28, part 2].
Fols. 43-6 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Final Causes.
Fol. 47 (1 leaf): Account of experiment about transmission of colourless ink through wetted paper.
Fol. 48 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Languid Motion.
Fols. 49-50 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Spring, 1st Continuation.
Fol. 51 (1 leaf): Experiment concerning heat.
Fols. 52-3 (2 leaves): Notes relating to Effluviums.
Fols. 54-5 (2 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
Fol. 56 (1 leaf): Latin account of chemical experiment.
Fols. 57-8 (2 leaves): Section of text of Certain Physiological Essays.
Fols. 59-60 (2 leaves): Section of text concerning the circulation of the blood, and an experiment to illustrate it.
Fols. 61-3 (3 leaves): Section of text related to Hydrostatical Paradoxes.
Fols. 64-5 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
Fol. 66 (1 leaf): Notes for Christ. Virt., I.
Fol. 67 (1 leaf): Fragment from MS version of Languid Motion.
Fols. 68-70 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., II.
Fols. 71-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Degradation of Gold.
Fol. 73 (1 leaf): Two lists of scientific phenomena.
Fol. 74 (1 leaf): Text relating to Cold.
Fol. 75 (1 leaf): Part of defence speech by 'E.G.'.
Fol. 76 (1 leaf): Part of original version of Usefulness.
Fols. 77-8 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
Fol. 79 (1 leaf): Section of text on feelings of severed limbs.
Fol. 80 (1 leaf): 'Introductory Preface'.
Fol. 81 (1 leaf): 'Notes & Experiments belonging to the papers about the History of Qualities...'
Fol. 82 (1 leaf): Sections of text on substantial forms, etc.
Fols. 83-4 (2 leaves): Section of text relating to Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
Fols. 85-6 (2 leaves): MS version of introduction to 'Essay XIII' of Usefulness.
Fols. 87-8 (2 leaves): Section of text dealing with concretion of liquors.
Fols. 89-91 (3 leaves): MS version of part of Producibleness.
Fols. 92-3 (2 leaves): MS version of part of 'Continuation of Fluids contiguous to other Fluids' (Phil. Trans., 1677).
Fol. 94 (1 leaf): Geographical notes.
Fols. 95-6 (2 leaves): MS versions of two passages in Hidden Qualities and five in General History of Air.
Fol. 97 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
Fols. 98-9 (2 leaves): Texts concerning effluvia of celestial bodies, heat of sun, etc.
Fols. 100-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of General History of Air.
Fols. 102 - 6 (5 leaves): Part of paper about the pores and figures of liquors, describing various experiments, etc., interrupted by note accompanying a strange creature, resembling a grasshopper (fol. 104).
Fols. 107-8 (2 leaves): Limitations to distillation etc. in determining the nature of vegetables.
Fols. 109-10 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Certain Physiological Essays.
Fols. 111-12 (2 leaves): Introduction to Boyle's critique of orthodox medical practice, in the form of a letter.
Fol. 113 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Theodora.
Fol. 114 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
Fol. 115 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Effluviums.
Fol. 116 (1 leaf): Section of text concerning distillation.
Fols. 117-18 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Exp. & Obs. Physicae.
Fol. 119 (1 leaf): Inadequacy of anatomists' understanding of living organisms.
Fol. 120 (1 leaf): Queries concerning electrical bodies, completing text in BP 22, fols. 197-9.
Fols. 121-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
Fols. 123-4 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Gems.
Fol. 125 (1 leaf): Passage concerning methods of calcining gold.
Fols. 126-7 (2 leaves): Passage complaining of inadequacies of existing writings on natural philosophy.
Fols. 128-9 (2 leaves): Section of text on the nature of firm bodies.
Fol. 130 (1 leaf): Material relating to General History of Air.
Fol. 131 (1 leaf): MS version of part of High Veneration.
Fols. 132-6 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Exp. & Obs. Physicae.
Fol. 137 (1 leaf): Section of text as to whether amalgam of metals nobler than its constituents, or a hybrid living creature than its ancestors.
Fols. 138-9 (2 leaves): Fragment of 'Dialogue on Heat and Flame'.
Fol. 140 (1 leaf): Conclusion of a discourse on liquors.
Fols. 141-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Final Causes.
Fols. 143-4 (2 leaves): Natural history observations (fungi and barnacles).
Fols. 145-8 (4 leaves): Passages of text intended for insertion into Usefulness, or another, ancillary treatise.
Fols. 149-50 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
Fol. 151 (1 leaf): Passage concerning composition of copper.
Fol. 152 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
Fol. 153 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Flame and Air.
Fol. 154 (1 leaf): Passage concerning the interpretation of others' experiments.
Fols. 155-6 (2 leaves): MS version of parts of Usefulness, II, sect. 2, etc.
Fols. 157-60 (4 leaves): Fragments of 'Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals' and related texts.
Fol. 161 (1 leaf): Section of text relating to sequel to 'Alcali and Acid' (Mechanical Qualities).
Fol. 162 (1 leaf): 'The Latin version of the Christian Virtuoso': cover sheet.