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"Abstract of the premium granted by the Linen Board of Ireland for producing alkaline or bleaching salts from materials of Irish growth", 4 June 1782

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/24F
Scope and Contents

Text entitled, 'Abstract of the premium granted by the Linen Board of Ireland for producing alkaline or bleaching salts from materials of Irish growth', dated 4 June 1782. The report contains notes on verso by Joseph Black regarding the use of ferns for ashes.

Dates: 4 June 1782
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Autobiographical notes by Professor Joseph Black, c 1793-1799

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Identifier: Coll-16/V/125-129
Scope and Contents

Autobiographical notes by Professor Joseph Black. Written after 1793 and before his death on 6 December 1799.

Dates: c 1793-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of letter from Captain F to his brother , 1 March 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/106-107F
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter from Captain F to his brother in Edinburgh, dated 1 March 1783. The letter is about rusting of iron bolts in copper bottomed ships, e.g. the Victory. The item contains Joseph Black's draft reply.

Dates: 1 March 1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Copy of specification of James Black's invention for refining sugar, 19 February 1785

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/254-261F
Scope and Contents

Copy of specification of James Black's invention for refining sugar, dated 19 February 1785.

Dates: 19 February 1785
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Joseph Black II, 1770-1786

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Identifier: Coll-16/II
Scope and Contents

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with George Macintosh (fl1782-1783), Princess Dashkova (1743-1810) and Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell (1744-1816).


1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1770-1786)

Dates: 1770-1786
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Joseph Black III, 1785-1793

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Identifier: Coll-16/III
Scope and Contents

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes correspondence with Adam Smith (1723-1790), George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732-1818) and Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808).


1 box of letters and related documents, chronologically arranged with index (1785-1793).

Dates: 1785-1793
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Joseph Black IV, 1749-1799

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Identifier: Coll-16/IV
Scope and Contents

Joseph Black corresponded with many people on social and professional matters. This series includes letters from John Walker, Baron de Montesquieu and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.


32 letters and related documents, mostly chronologically arranged, with index (1749-1786).

Dates: 1749-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Correspondence of Joseph Black V: Family Letters, 1746-1799

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Identifier: Coll-16/V
Scope and Contents

Joseph Black exchanged a lot of correspondence with his family, particularly his brother George, and also with his brother Thomas, his father John, and his nephew George.


64 letters, chronologically arranged (1746-1799).

Dates: 1746-1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Cover of letter from Doctor Thomas Beddoes to Joseph Black, 2 February 1788

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/68
Scope and Contents

Cover of letter from Doctor Thomas Beddoes to Joseph Black, dated 2 February 1788.

Dates: 2 February 1788
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Cover of letter from G La Bruyere to Joseph Black, 6 August 1787

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Identifier: Coll-16/III/35
Scope and Contents

English



Dates: 6 August 1787
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Black, George, fl1746-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 26
Black, George, fl1795-1801 (nephew of Joseph Black) 16
Black, John, fl1728-1766 (father of Joseph Black) 14
Wilson, Patrick, 1743-1811 (astronomer) 12
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 10
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Black, Thomas, fl1792-1798 (brother of Joseph Black) 8
Dashkova, Princess Catherine, 1743-1810 (President of the Russian Academy) 8
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (physician) 7
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (French chemist) 7
Crell, Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von, 1744-1816 (German chemist) 6
De Secondat, Charles Louis, 1689-1755 (known as Montesquieu | French philosopher) 6
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816 (historian, philosopher) 5
Watt, James, 1736-1819 (engineer) 5
Hope, Thomas Charles, 1766-1844 (Professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh) 4
Arbuthnot, Robert, fl1783 (secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland) 3
Black, Samuel, d 1792 (Brother of Joseph Black) 3
Dempster, George, 1732-1818 (agriculturalist) 3
Monro, Alexander, 1773-1859 ("Tertius", Professor of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Robison, John, 1739-1805 (professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 3
Wall, Martin, 1747-1824 (physician) 3
Birkett, Dolly, fl 1792-1797 (née Black | niece of Joseph Black) 2
Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800 (Church of Scotland Minister, Professor of Rhetoric) 2
Blaquiere, Sir John, 1732-1812 (1st Baron de Blaquiere | Chief Secretary for Ireland) 2
Cullen, William, 1710-1790 (chemist and mettalurgist) 2
Gascoigne, Charles, 1737-1806 (director of the Carron Iron Works) 2
Menish, Henry, 1735-1809 (physician and geologist) 2
Quin, Charles William, fl1783 2
Robertson, William, 1721-1793 (historian, principal of the University of Edinburgh) 2
Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 (Scottish philosopher and mathematician) 2
Wilson, Alexander, 1714-1786 (professor of astronomy, University of Glasgow) 2
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 (architect) 1
Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 (physician and botanist) 1
Black, James, fl 1799 (Brother of Joseph Black) 1
Black, John, fl 1799 (nephew of Joseph Black) 1
Caritat, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de, 1743-1794 (Marquis de Condorcet | French philosopher and mathematician) 1
Dashkov, Pavel Mikhailovich, 1763-1807 (Russian engineer) 1
De la Rochefoucauld, Louis-Alexandre, 1743-1792 (French nobleman and politician) 1
Dundas, Robert, 1758-1819 (of Arniston | Solicitor General for Scotland; Lord Advocate) 1
Frederick II, 1712-1786 (King of Prussia) 1
George III, 1738-1820 (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | King of Hanover | London | England) 1
Gregory, James, 1753-1821 (professor of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
Heath, James, fl 1788 (engraver) 1
Herschel, Sir William, 1738-1822 (astronomer) 1
Macintosh, George, fl1782-1783 (Glasgow (Scotland)) 1
Macpherson, Sir John, c 1745-1821 (1st Baronet | acting Governor-General of Bengal) 1
Nelson, Horatio, 1758-1805 (1st Viscount Nelson | Vice-Admiral of the White) 1
Playfair, John, 1748-1819 (scientist, mathematician, and professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 1
Raeburn, Sir Henry, 1756-1823 (portrait painter) 1
Roebuck, John, 1718-1794 (inventor) 1
Terray, Antoine Jean, 1750-1794 (French administrator) 1
Walker, John, 1731-1803 (professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh and clergyman) 1
Whytt, Robert, 1714-1766 (professor of theory of medicine, University of Edinburgh) 1
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