Notebooks (mainly chemistry)

Note-books, mostly on chemical subjects. Author's holograph MSS. Nos. 1-2 were written in Glasgow; the remainder in London. MS.2552 (Volume 1) Lecture notes on Chemistry. 15 January-27 April, 1835. (36 ll. 8vo. 18½ × 11½ cm.). MS.2553 (Volume 2) Notes on Phosphates [c. 1835]. (8 ll. + 28 bl. ll. 8vo. 17½ × 12 cm.). MS.2554 (Volume 3) Notes on Chemistry, list of addresses, etc. 1837-1838. (39 ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.). MS.2555 (Volume 4) Notes on Chemical experiments. 1838. (30 ll. + 12 bl. ll. 8vo. 10 × 11½ cm). MS.2556 (Volume 5) Hydration of Salts. 1841-1842. (43 pp. 8vo. 17½ × 11 cm.). MS.2557 (Volume 6) Hydration of Salts. 1842. (42 pp. + 1 bl. l. 17½ × 11½ cm.). MS.2558 (Volume 7) Hydration and Solution of Salts. 1842. (44 pp. 8vo. 17½ × 11 cm.). MS.2559 (Volume 8) Hydration and Solution of Salts. 1842. (93 pp. 8vo. 18 × 11½ cm.). MS.2560 (Volume 9) On Sulphates [etc.]. 1843. (80 pp. + 4 ll. + 30 bl. ll. 8vo. 18 × 11½ cm.). MS.2561 (Volume 10) Notes on Chemistry, Diabetes, Diet [etc.]. 1843-44. (36 ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.) MS.2562 (Volume 11) Diabetic diseases. 1844. (16 ll. + 28 bl. ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.). MS.2563 (Volume 12) Diabetic diseases. 1844-45. (58 pp. + 15 bl. ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.). MS.2564 (Volume 13) Notes on Diabetes. 1844. (44 ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.). MS.2565 (Volume 14) Notes on Diabetic diet. Diffusion of gases. Analysis of mixtures. 1844-45. (28 pp. + 29 ll. 8vo. 15½ × 10 cm.). MS.2566 (Volume 15) Notes on Tobacco. 1844. (77 ll. + 20 bl. ll. 8vo. 15 × 10 cm.). MS.2567 (Volume 16) Notes on Combustion. Analysis of Beers. 1852. (50 ll. + 14 bl. ll. obl. 8vo. 8½ × 15 cm.). MS.2568 (Volume 17) On Diffusion of Liquids. 1857-58. 74 ll. 8vo. 17½ × 11 cm.). MS.2569 (Volume 18) Molecular movement of liquids. 1858-59. (56 pp. + 27 bl. ll. + 4 ll. 8vo. 18 × 11 cm.). MS.2570 (Volume 19) Experiments on transpiration of gases. 1859. (95 pp. + 4 bl. ll. + 1 l. 8vo. 17½ × 10½ cm.). MS.2571 (Volume 20) Experiments on osmotic force. 1859. (125 pp. + 4 ll. 8vo. 17½ × 10½ cm.). MS.2572 (Volume 21) Experiments on osmotic force. 1859-64. (203 pp. 8vo. 17½ × 11 cm.). MS.2573 (Volume 22) Experiments on Dialysis. 1861-63. (112 pp. + 4 bl. ll. 8vo. 17 × 11 cm.). MS.2574 (Volume 23) Separation of gases from mixtures by transfusion. 1862. (115 pp. + 14 bl. ll. 8vo. 17½ × 11 cm.). MS.2575 (Volume 24) Diffusion of gases. 1863. On 'Hydrogels' and 'Hydrosols'. 1864. (119 pp. + 1 l. 8vo. 18 × 11½ cm.). Produced in Glasgow and London.

1835-1864

24 volumes 24 vols. 8vo. v.s. The first volume is unbound, and the beginning is wanting. The note-books are of various sizes.

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).