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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A is the series of the British Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions that is devoted to mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering.

Publication History

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A began in 1887, when the Philosophical Transactions split into two series. The first volume of this series is numbered 178. No copyright renewals exist for issues of this journal. It is still published today..

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1887-1952: The Royal Society makes issues more than 70 years ago, and other selected content, freely available online. Later content may also be free, or may require subscription or article purchase.
• 1887-1939: Gallica has volumes 178-200, and 202-237 online. Volume 201, and selected alternate sources of these and later volumes, are linked below.
• 1887-1895: HathiTrust has volumes 178-186 freely readable online.
• 1888: The Internet Archive has volume 179.
• 1896-1923: HathiTrust has volumes 187-223 online. Access to volumes after 1898 may be restricted outside the United States.
• 1906: The Internet Archive has volume 205.
• 1920: The Internet Archive has volume 220.
• 1922-1928: HathiTrust has volumes 223-227 online. Access may be restricted outside the United States. Some later volumes may be searchable but not readable online here.

Official Site / Current Material

• The official journal site has more information on the journal, and gives subscriber access to selected content.

Related Resources

• The pre-split run of Philosophical Transactions is also available online.
• Series B, devoted to biological sciences, is also available online.

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