''Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals'' was a series of books edited and published by Richard Taylor (1781–1858) in

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between 1837 and 1852. After 1852 the publication continued in two series: Natural Philosophy, edited by J. Tyndall and William Francis; and, Natural history, edited by Arthur Henfrey and

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. Volume 3 (1843) is noteworthy because it contained

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's notes appended to her translation of

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's article. Both are available on

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. * The Menebrea article * The notes by Ada Lovelace. Some volumes have been reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp.

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in 1966. File:Taylor-1.jpg, Volume I and II of ''Scientific Memoirs'' (1841) File:Taylor-7.jpg, List of figures in volume I of ''Scientific Memoirs'' (1841) File:Taylor-11.jpg, Figure in volume I of ''Scientific Memoirs'' (1841) File:Taylor-10.jpg, First page of volume I of ''Scientific Memoirs'' (1841)

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