Scope and Contents A miscellaneous collection of letters. 1. Invitation from the Royal Society, 4 February 1736.2. Letter from the Office of Ordnance stating the whereabouts of a parcel from Peru, 26 October 1739.3. Notice that there is a package from Peru awaiting Dr Halley, 12 October 1739.4. Letter from the Admiralty Office calling a meeting of the Judges of the Board of Longitude, 21 November 1739.5. Letter from Philip Miller, of Chelsea, requesting the India...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous correspondence and papers regarding engineering and new inventions. The correspondents include C.B. Vignoles, W.H. Barlow, B.A. Gould, F. Bashforth, E.J. Routh, W.H. Miller and W.B. Adams. Many of the papers are printed, and they include notices of meetings, pamphlets and circulars. The subjects covered include railways, with a diagram of the Playford Level Crossing; the Canterbury gas and water supply, with a sketch of a rotary valve for sewage pumps; gas meters; nickel...