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Remsen, Ira, 1846-1927. Ira Remsen papers, 1868-1938.

Title: Ira Remsen papers, 1868-1938.

The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, publications, lectures and lecture notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, memorabilia, and books annotated by Remsen, spanning 1868 to 1938.

ArchivalResource: 9.6 linear ft. (23 document boxes)

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Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1886-1912.

Seven A.L.S. (1886-1912) primarily about research in chemistry, to various correspondents including Lupton and Thompson and perhaps Le Chatelier and Meyer ; in French, German, and English.

ArchivalResource: 7 items : ill., port.

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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Papers, 1831-1882.

Title: Papers, 1831-1882.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584290 View

Claude, Georges, 1870-1960. Papers (dealing mainly with neon lighting)

Title: Papers (dealing mainly with neon lighting)

Reprints and manuscripts of oral communications and papers. Laboratory notebooks, experiments on gas fluorescence and luminescence. Patents, brochures from the Claude-Paz & Sylva Company. Commercial brochures on liquid air, neon lighting, welding, and terrestrial thermal energy. Incoming correspondence concerning rare gases and fluorescent lighting from scientists and industrialists, including John McLennan and William Ramsay.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81639709 View

Persifor Frazer papers, 1882-1906, 1882-1906

Title: Persifor Frazer papers, 1882-1906 1882-1906

The letters to Persifor Frazer cover primarily matters related to geology and mineralogy. A portion of the correspondence, principally from British scientists, concerns the 1884 meeting in Philadelphia of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (B F867).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet, c. 220 items in 2 boxes

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Dewar, James. Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1877-1917.

Title: Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1877-1917.

Materials by or relating to James Dewar can be found in the following series: Manuscripts (General): 43 letters to Joseph Larmor in the Larmor Letters; 2 letters to John Hall Gladstone; 2 letters to Arthur Schuster in Schuster Correspondence. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 12 letters to the Royal Society. Referees Reports: 11 reports by Dewar on papers by (i) W. N. Hartley and A. K. Huntingdon (ii) E. J. Mills (iii) W. A. Tilden and W. A. Shenstone (iv) T. S. Humpidge (v) Wm. Ramsay and Sydney Young (vi) H. W. Callendar (vii) J. Joly. Council Documents: 8 items. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 2 items.

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Edward Williams Morley Papers, 1833-1923, (bulk 1863-1899)

Title: Edward Williams Morley Papers 1833-1923 (bulk 1863-1899)

Chemist and physician. Correspondence, certificates, and printed matter, including letters from Myron A. Munson, Morley's college roommate and lifelong friend, written while Munson was serving in the Union Army in 1864, and extensive correspondence with prominent European and American scientists.

ArchivalResource: 1,200 items; 3 containers; 1.2 linear feet

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Claude, Georges, 1870-1960. Papers.

Title: Papers.

Private papers of the inventor. Reprints and manuscripts of oral communications and papers. Laboratory notebooks, patents, and commercial brochures. Topics include electricity, cryogenics, liquid air, rare gases (argon, neon, helium, and krypton), neon lighting, welding, and terrestrial and marine thermal energy. Incoming and outgoing correspondence (correspondents include Kammerlingh-Onnes, Ramsay, Debierne, Pierre and Marie Curie, Arsène d'Arsonval, etc.). Among the several institutions mentioned are the Ecole de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris, the International Institute of Refrigeration, Société des ingénieurs civils, the Académie des sciences, etc. His political career is also documented.

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Ernest, Maurice, 1872-1955. Papers, 1900-1954.

Title: Papers, 1900-1954.

Consists of one box of correspondence (supplemented by clippings) written to biologist and author Maurice Ernest (1872-1955) by various individuals. The contents of these letters, which span the period between 1900 and 1954, reflect Ernest's interests in homeopathy and longevity studies, as well as his involvement in international relations as a press correspondent from 1897-1909. His correspondents included Nobel Prize winners such as Ralph Angell, Frederick Hopkins, Philip Noel-Baker, William Ramsay and John Rayleigh, as well as numerous physicians, scientists, and newspaper editors.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882, 1831-1882

Title: Charles Darwin papers, 1831-1882 1831-1882

Correspondence of Charles Darwin with his family, Sir William J. Hooker, Sir John W. Lubbock, William Ogle, Daniel Oliver, John Tyndall, and Sir William Ramsay, 1836-1882. (1 reel). Letters to J. Brodie-Innes, W. H. Bates, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others (1846-1882); also letters to his wife and son and letters and papers about him (1 reel). Letters from Darwin to G. H. K. Thwaites, William B. Tegetmeier, Albany Hancock, Richard Owen, Bernhard Studer, Auguste H. Forel, J. Moulinie, A. Bohrn, Karl Christoph Vogt, François Joseph Pictet de la Rive, and others.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.496-ead.xml View

Worthington, A. M. (Arthur Mason), 1852-1916. Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1882-1899.

Title: Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1882-1899.

Material by or relating to Arthur Mason Worthington is in the following series: Miscellaneous Correspondence: 8 letters to the Royal Society. Referees Reports: 7 Reports by W. G. Adams, Charles Tomlinson, C. V. Boys, W. Ramsay, and J. J. Thomson on papers by Worthington. Archived Papers: 1 paper. Topic: surface forces in liquids.

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Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Correspondence with Lord Rayleigh about argon, 1887-1907.

Title: Correspondence with Lord Rayleigh about argon, 1887-1907.

Correspondence concerns argon.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

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[William Ramsay, biographical materials].

Title: [William Ramsay, biographical materials]. 1895-

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21899640 View

Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932, 1784-1932

Title: Sir James Paget correspondence, 1784-1932 1784-1932

These letters were assembled by Lady Paget as a collection of autographs. Most are addressed to Paget, and their subjects include medicine, science, and family.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear feet, 196 items

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Lebour, George Alexander Louis, 1847-1918. Correspondence, 1852-1914.

Title: Correspondence, 1852-1914.

These letters are mainly to Lebour, but there are some to Richard Howse, who was curator of the Natural History Museum of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There are also letters written to various secretaries of the Geological Society of London. The correspondence concerns geology and the above institutions.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

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Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Papers, 1870-1916.

Title: Papers, 1870-1916.

Correspondence and papers, including 10 laboratory notebooks, ca. 1879-1915; notes of lectures attended and given 1870-1906; correspondence and notes, 1868-1916 (16 vols.); manuscripts of his 'Elements and Electrons' (1912); and lists of his own published papers, 1872-1912. Bound volumes contain letters to Ramsay, with a few early letters from him. They relate to student days at Glasgow and Tübingen Universities; Ramsay's short period at University College Bristol, 1881-1887; work on the rare gases at University College London (with Travers and R. Whytlaw-Gray) with copies of published papers by Ramsay and Travers, photographs of laboratories, apparatus, etc.; and work on radium with Frederick Soddy. The collection also includes Ramsay's laboratory notebooks, which give accounts of the discovery of argon and helium, neon, krypton and xenon, and of work with Soddy on radon. There are notes of lectures Ramsay attended when a student at Glasgow, and of lectures he gave when Professor at University College London. Correspondents include: Marcellin Berthelot, 1894-1899; Sir W. Crookes, 1894-1895; Emil Fischer, 1895-1914; R. Fittig, 1877-1902; G.F. Fitzgerald, 1884-1895; W. Huggins, 1895-1905; T.H. Huxley, 1887-1894; K.S. Olszewski, 1894-1895; W. Ostwald, 1887-1910; Lyon Playfair, 1885-1899; F.M. Raoult, 1891-1900; Sir G.G. Stokes, 1880-1893; J.H. van't Hoff, 1888-1910.

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Album materials, 1777-1925

Title: Album materials 1777-1925

Materials removed from albums, of letters and autographs of various persons.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet

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Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Correspondence : with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1904-1909.

Title: Correspondence : with Edgar Fahs Smith, 1904-1909.

Re: impure radium.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555158 View

Ramsay, William, 1852-1916. Letters to Will Orton Tewson, 1914- March 18-June 6.

Title: Letters to Will Orton Tewson, 1914- March 18-June 6.

Ramsay agrees to furnish 12 scientific articles similar to ones done for "The Youth's Companion." Gives possible topics for a series and will accept payment as articles are written. Requests proofs and a copy of each article as it appears. The final letter encloses article two on "Visible Molecules" (not present).

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50627693 View