| Description | Volume 13 of William Ramsay's correspondence and papers, as compiled by his former assistant, Morris W. Travers, following Ramsay's death. The contents of the volume are as follows:
In the front of the volume: Photograph of Ramsay in his laboratory (from the ‘Bystander, 21 December 1904).
Pages 1-16: Introduction.
Pages 17-146: Correspondence and papers. (January 1903 – December 1904)
Pages 27a-d: Correspondence between Travers and Frederick Soddy. (1952)
Page 57:
- W. Ramsay and F. Soddy, ‘Experiments in radioactivity and the production of helium from radium’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 72, 1903).
- As above, reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1903.
Pages 96-99: W. Ramsay and F. Soddy, ‘Further experiments on the production of helium from radium’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 73, 1904).
Page 100: W. Ramsay and J.N. Collie, ‘The spectrum of the radium emanation’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 73, 1904, photocopy).
Page 112: W. Ramsay, ‘Present problems of inorganic chemistry’ (printed), a lecture delivered in 1904 to the International Congress of Science and Arts, St. Louis, USA.
Pages 132-137: ‘The sequence of events’, lecture delivered before the Royal Academy of Science at Stockholm, 1906 (printed).
Page 146: Photographs of Ramsay in Switzerland. |