(scienceblogs.com): All Royal Society Publishing's online journal content is available for free in celebration of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary. The Royal Society's archives provide a record of some key scientific discoveries from the last 350 years including: Halley's description of 'his comet' in 1705; details of the double Helix of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1954; and Edmond Stone's breakthrough in 1763 that willow bark cures fevers, which led to the discovery of salicylic acid and later, to the development of aspirin.
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