Item 27 - Miscellaneous notes on natural sciences

Includes an incomplete letter from [Luke Howard?] dated 18 June 1835 (item 1), "Representation of a Committee appointed by the British Association assembled at Dublin, August 1835" (item 4), "Temperature observed at Woodbine Hall, in the County of Norfolk, at different periods of a Solar Eclipse, on May 15, 1836" (item 5); draft report on Mr Herapath's experiment (item 7); a fair copy[?] of "Sequel of the Researches upon the Measure of Temperatures & upon the Laws of the commication of heat by M. M. Dulong and Petit, Second Part" (item 9); instructions for taking readings [in the Dolcoath mine?] (item 10); notes "On the change of action in an Iron-ship's compasses from a stroke of lightning" (item 13); a notebook entitled "Experiments on Elastic Balls" (item 14); three mechanical copies of a sheet headed "Atomic Symbols" (items 17-19); and printed "Notice of a species of Seal apparently new to the British Shores" by W. B. Clarke, 14 Aug. 1847 (item 22).