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Chemistry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Chemistry Class Registration Book (Sir Lyon Playfair and Alexander Crum Brown), 1858-1873

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/5
Scope and Contents

List of students attending chemistry classes of Sir Lyon Playfair, then Alexander Crum Brown, including marks for 'knowledge'. Students include Sophia Jex Blake and James Geikie.

Dates: 1858-1873

Letter to Arthur James Balfour from Professor Alexander Crum Brown, 04 July 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/70
Scope and Contents

Crum Brown writes to Balfour that he believes the University of Edinburgh should have three ordinary professors of Chemistry who work co-operatively together and who are each assigned a laboratory and junior staff. He then includes some financial projections for salaries and a new building which he states 'should not be ornate' and should be built so it could be extended.

Dates: 04 July 1904