The Philosophical Transactions

Abstract

YOUR correspondent “S.” seems to be unaware that what he asks for has been already done. The abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions, which was brought down to the year 1800 by Charles Hutton, George Shaw, and Richard Pearson, was continued in octavo form, by order of the President and Council of the Royal Society, under the title of “Abstracts of the Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.” This series extended to six volumes, bringing the abridgment down to the year 1854. At the seventh volume the title was changed to “Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,” a publication which still exists, and which contains abstracts of all the papers in the Philosophical Transactions and a good deal besides.