Workdiary 28 ('Physiologicall Memorandums')

Content: Aphorisms and memoranda from 1673-4 to be used in writing various (mainly unpublished) works, referred to by abbreviated titles in the margin

General Information

• Creation: June 1673-June 1674
• Hands: Frederick Slare (entries 801-829, 831-859, 867-912, 920-923, 951-961, 977-978, 982-1007) John Warr, Jr. (entries 830, 860-866, 913-919, 924-936, 962-976, 979-981) uncertain hand (entries 937-950) Hugh Greg (marginal endorsements and insertions in entries) Robert Boyle (occasional insertions in entries; perhaps title headings to sections)
• Source: Royal Society, Boyle Papers 17, fols. 148-63; Boyle Papers 38, fol. 42
• Languages: English (all entries)
• Length: 207 entries, of which 200 are numbered 801-1000
• Format: Folded foolscap sheets. Most of these folded sheets are in turn folded twice horizontally, dividing the page in thirds.
• Note 1: Fol. 147 is a single leaf of a folded foolscap sheet, separated from its accompanying leaf, on which is written at the top of its recto, in Slare's hand, 'The last bundle ‹save one› of Physiological Memorandums'. The verso is blank. The entries themselves begin on the recto of fol. 148 (part of a conjoint folded sheet), which has its own pencilled-in header, 'Phsiologicall Memorandums'.
• Note 2: BP 38, fol. 42 is a single leaf from a folded foolscap sheet, separated from its accompanying leaf,on whose recto are written entries very similar in content and format to those in the workdiary BP 17, fols. 148-63. Although these entries are unnumbered, we present them here as a supplement to the previous workdiary, with numbers, assigned by the editors, continuing from the former series.