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Chemistry

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

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Laboratory Classbook, 1873-1908

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/11
Scope and Contents

List of students taking laboratory classes, including their addresses, places of birth and which faculty they belong to. Students include Arthur Pillans Laurie, Hugh Robert Mill and JH Maclagan-Wedderburn.

Dates: 1873-1908

Lectures on Chemistry, 1873-1885

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/9
Scope and Contents

List of students taking chemistry lectures, including their addresses, places of birth and which faculty they belong to. Students include Arthur Pillans Laurie and Sir William Abbott Herdman.

Dates: 1873-1885

Lectures on Chemistry, 1899-1904

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/C2/10
Scope and Contents

Register of students taking chemistry lectures, arranged alphabetically per year. Students include James Stuart Geikie and Auckland Campbell Geddes.

Dates: 1899-1904

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black, 17 April 1775

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/79-80
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Kames to Joseph Black about chemistry and agriculture (with some notes by Black).

Dates: 17 April 1775

Letter from Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell to Joseph Black, 22 January 1779

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/87-88
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell, a former student of Joseph Black, sending information about his work in chemistry.

Dates: 22 January 1779

Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black, 15 November 1780

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/103-104
Scope and Contents

Letter from Martin Wall to Joseph Black about a chemistry course at the University of Oxford and Black's chemical furnace.

Dates: 15 November 1780

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

Minutes, 12 January 1808-16 April 1858

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Identifier: Coll-206/1
Scope and Contents
  1. details of the constitution of the society
  2. minutes concerning the scientific papers read at society meetings
  3. minutes concerning membership applications and acceptances by the society
  4. minutes concerning business matters of the society
Dates: 12 January 1808-16 April 1858

Minutes volume 2, 11 December 1830-16 April 1858

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Identifier: Coll-206/1/2
Scope and Contents Bound volume containing numbered pages. Sessions 24 to the final session, 44, are minuted including: details of nominations for and ratifications of membership, business matters, plans for a bust of Robert Jameson and final business matters including disbanding the membership and settling affairs. Details of titles and abstract content of all papers read to the society are minuted. These include: a description of Greenockite, and a paper on stratification of primitive rocks by...
Dates: 11 December 1830-16 April 1858

Observata et dicta apud D. Hugenium, 06 June 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [4]
Scope and Contents

Notes of a conversation in Holland with Christian Huygens, concerning an 'horologium' to show hours, months, years, and planetary positions. More general mention of the work of numerous other scientists: Notably, Huygens disputes the notion of John Bernoulli (James Bernoulli's younger brother) that the curve of an inflated sail is part-catenary and part-circle, and warns that Newton ought not to be 'deflected' into theology or chemistry.

Dates: 06 June 1693