Miscellaneous (Chemistry)

Miscellaneous notes and oddments on Chemistry, etc. Author's holograph MSS. (1) Folder lettered 'Molecular theory, etc. 1840'. (18 ll. folio. 33 × 211/2 cm.). (2) Folder lettered 'Jottings as to evidence and report on Tobacco and Liquorice', June 1846. (11 ll. folio. 32 × 20 cm.). (3) Folder lettered 'Report on refining of sugar', 1850. (13 ll. v.s.). (4) Speech at the Pyx Dinner [at the Goldsmith's Company], 22/1/1866. (7 ll. folio. 331/2 × 211/2 cm.). (5) Notes on gases. 21/3/1868. (5 ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 111/2 cm.). (6) Of gelous hydration. On liquid condition of matter. Diffusion of gases in contact, without a septum. Atomic volume of Hydrogenium. n.d. (9 pp., 7 ff. + 6 ll., 2 ll., 2 ll. folio. 33 × 21 cm.). (7) On the occlusion of Hydrogen gas by meteoric iron. Copy with holograph additions and corrections. n.d. (5 pp. folio. 32 × 20 cm.). (8) Remarks on Contagion. n.d. (4 ll. folio. 32 × 20 cm.). Produced in London.

1840-1868

1 volume 89 ll. v.s. Unbound in pamphlet case.

Presented by Mrs. Tweedie 1929.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).