GB 0096 AL 280 - Sauerbeck, Augustus (d 1929)

2 items (4 leaves)

GB 0096 AL 280 1893 and 1895 Collection level (fonds) 2 items (4 leaves) Sauerbeck , Augustus , d 1929 , statistician

Augustus Sauerbeck was an authority on the British wool trade and became well known in statistical circles after devising the Sauerbeck Index Number. He became a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1886 and was a regular contributor to the Society's journal; the Society awarded him a Guy Medal in silver in 1894 and made him an honorary fellow in 1920; he died in 1929.

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Papers of Augustus Sauerbeck, 1893 and 1895, comprise two letters to Sir Guilford Molesworth; the first thanks him for a letter and two tables of production figures and discusses his own work: 'If you examine the real reduction in cost - not by opening up new countries - but by real scientific improvement, there is probably no important article in which the reduction has been so great as in the case of gold, where it pays now if you get 1/2oz or even less out of a ton of ore', 28 August 1893. The second letter refers to a forthcoming article on prices, to be published in the March issue of the Journal of the Statistical Society, 5 April 1895.

Arranged in chronological order.

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English

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Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

These documents are inserted in A Sauerbeck 'Prices of commodities during the last seven years' (1893) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1893. To request the documents, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letters AL280.

Compiled by Samantha Velumyl, AIM25 cataloguer.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Papers of Augustus Sauerbeck, 1893 and 1895, comprise two letters to Sir Guilford Molesworth; the first thanks him for a letter and two tables of production figures and discusses his own work: 'If you examine the real reduction in cost - not by opening up new countries - but by real scientific improvement, there is probably no important article in which the reduction has been so great as in the case of gold, where it pays now if you get 1/2oz or even less out of a ton of ore', 28 August 1893. The second letter refers to a forthcoming article on prices, to be published in the March issue of the Journal of the Statistical Society, 5 April 1895.

Arranged in chronological order.

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

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English

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

These documents are inserted in A Sauerbeck 'Prices of commodities during the last seven years' (1893) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1893. To request the documents, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letters AL280.

These documents are inserted in A Sauerbeck 'Prices of commodities during the last seven years' (1893) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1893. To request the documents, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letters AL280.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels