[SCIENTIFIC EXTRACTS]. Extracts from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London, 1667-1859. 4o. Several engraved plates. Provenance: Institutional; from the Library of Haskell F. Norman (bookplates). Includes: KING, Edmund and [LOWER, Richard?]. "An Account of more Tryals of Transfusion;" HOOKE, Robert. "An Account of an Experiment of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with Bellows," 1667. -- LEEUWENHOECK, Antony van. "Touching the Compression of the Air," "More Microscopical Observations about Blood, Milk, Hair, Nails..." 1674. -- HALLEY, Edmund. "A Proposal of a Method for finding the Longitude at Sea within a Degree, or twenty Leagues," [1732]. -- SHORT, James. "Mr. John Bradley's Observations of the Occultation of Venus by the Moon;" WATSON, William. "An Account of Mr. Benjamin Franklin's Treatise...Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia..." [1753]. -- INGENHOUSZ, John. "Easy Methods of measuring the Diminution of Bulk, taking place upon the Mixture of common Air and nitrous Air; together with Experiments on Platina," [1776]. -- THOMPSON, Benjamin (Count RUMFORD). "New Experiments upon Gun-powder," 1781. -- HUNTER, John and HOME, Everard. "Description of a new Marine Animal," [1785]. -- PRIESTLEY, Joseph. "Experiments and Observations relating to Air and Water," [1785]. -- RUMFORD, Count Benjamin. "Inquiry concerning the chemical Properties that have been attributed to Light," [1798]. -- YOUNG, Thomas. "Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries respecting Sound and Light," 1800. -- LISTER, Joseph Jackson. "On some properties in achromatic object-glasses..." [1830]. -- WHEATSTONE, Charles. "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision; Part the First," [1838]. -- BELL, Sir Charles. "On the Nervous System," [1840]. -- WHEATSTONE, Charles. "The Bakerian Lecture...determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit," [1843]. -- BOOLE, George. "On a General Method of Analysis," [1844]. -- GRAHAM, Thomas. "On the Motion of Gases," [1846]. -- HUXLEY, Thomas Henry. "On the Anatomy and the Affinities of the Family of the Medusae," [1849]. GRAHAM, Thomas. "On the Motion of Gases; Part II," [1859]. -- PLÜCHER, Julius and HITTORF, Johann W. "On the Spectra of Ignited Gases and Vapours, with especial regard to the different Spectra of the same elementary gaseous substance," [1865]. Marbled boards. Total 19 extracts. (19)