RSC ROSCOE - Roscoe Collection

100 items

RSC ROSCOE 1505-1892 Collection (fonds) 100 items Roscoe , Sir , Henry Enfield , 1833-1915 , Knight , chemist and university administrator

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe (1833-1915) was the 17th President of the Chemical Society (1880-1882) and went to University College London in 1848 where Thomas Graham was the Professor of Chemistry. Roscoe was a student of German chemist Robert Bunsen at Heidelberg; they later became collaborators in research and lifelong friends.

Donated by Sir Henry Roscoe.

The collection consists of approximately 100 items on alchemy and early chemistry, the most notable item being De Secretis Mulierum. The collection also includes manuscripts of lectures given by Sir Henry Roscoe; his notes on solar chemistry work; letters written to him by a number of his peers and his notebook from 1849. The many volumes of letters in the collection includes correspondence with contemporaries such as Robert Bunsen, Michael Faraday, Dmitri Mendeleeff and Louis Pasteur as well as with a number of Presidents of the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Organised by individual Accession Number

Open access by prior arrangement.

Scanning and copying not permitted. Digital photography is permitted.
Mainly in English, Latin, German and French.

Library catalogue or printed 1906 catalogue
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Donated by Sir Henry Roscoe.

The collection consists of approximately 100 items on alchemy and early chemistry, the most notable item being De Secretis Mulierum. The collection also includes manuscripts of lectures given by Sir Henry Roscoe; his notes on solar chemistry work; letters written to him by a number of his peers and his notebook from 1849. The many volumes of letters in the collection includes correspondence with contemporaries such as Robert Bunsen, Michael Faraday, Dmitri Mendeleeff and Louis Pasteur as well as with a number of Presidents of the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Organised by individual Accession Number

Open access by prior arrangement.

Scanning and copying not permitted. Digital photography is permitted.

• Engels

• Latijn

Mainly in English, Latin, German and French.

Library catalogue or printed 1906 catalogue

• Engels