Papers pertaining to chemistry, 1828-1888.

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Papers pertaining to chemistry, 1828-1888.

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Includes the diary of Booth's European trip, 1834-1835 (Box 3); an autograph album (ca. 1835) and arithmetic notebook, n.d. with autographs and family seals laid in, some dated 1880s (Box 4). Also includes volume of manuscript lecture notes on chemistry, illustrated, n.d. and a notebook containing mineral analyses, 1833-1836, including the analyses for the geological survey of the State of Delaware, n.d. Some of the Delaware survey analyses are credited to James Blaney, Campbell Morfit, J. F. Frazer, and C. Lea (M. Carey Lea), students in Booth's laboratory. Other analyses of ores are in the hand of Henry Charles Lea (Box 5). Also includes an account book, 1838-1841, for Booth's chemical laboratory (Box 6). Correspondence includes a letter to Booth from the American Chemical Society in 1877, a letter from Booth to J. F. Frazer in 1854, and a letter from Booth to the Phrenakosmian Society, 1841 (Folders 1-3). For Booth's correspondence to Morfit see Ms. Coll. 82. With manuscript, "Geological Survey of the State of Delaware" (10 leaves), Folder 9. Includes a memorial for geologist Thomas S. Ridgway, 1848, signed by James Curtis Booth and others, Folder 5. With 67 booklets of Booth's manuscript lecture notes on chemical technology, metallurgy, and organic chemistry, 1836-1852, n.d., (Folders 11-50). Lecture topics also included coinage, distillation, hat making, clay and glass manufacturing, paper manufacturing, and technical philosophy. Lectures delivered at the Franklin Institute in 1837-1838 are titled a Course on Chemical Technology, Part 2, and Part 3 (Folders 21-33).

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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