Abstracts of the papers printed in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
London : Royal Society of London,
1832-1843.
The octavo series of Abstracts first published in 1832 forms a sequence to the quarto Abridgements of the Philosophical transactions which covered the period 1665-1800.  The first two volumes, 1800-30, contain a collection of abstracts of papers arranged in the order of the full papers in the Philosophical transactions; in the third volume a new order was adopted, the abstracts being arranged under meetings, each meeting being headed by a brief account of the business which preceded the reading of the papers: v. 3-6 were issued in numbers (no. 1-102) each having the caption "Proceedings".
Description based on: Vol. 1 (1800-14).
Science
Abstracts of the papers communicated to the Royal Society of London