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Reference Number RAMSAY/7/1
TitleWilliam Ramsay's correspondence and papers, vol. 7: The discovery of argon (part 1)
Date1888-[1957]
DescriptionVolume 7/1 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:

Pages 2-60: Introduction.

Pages 1-144: Correspondence and papers (paginated separately), including photostats of pages from Ramsay’s laboratory notebooks. (Apr-Sep 1894)

Pages 5-11: Lord Rayleigh’s ‘On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen, preliminary notice’, (‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, 9 February 1888).

Pages 12-17: Lord Rayleigh’s ‘On the composition of water’ (‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, 7 March 1889).

Pages 18-31: Lord Rayleigh’s ‘On the relative densities of hydrogen and oxygen II’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, 18 Feb 1892).

Pages 35-48: Lord Rayleigh’s ‘On the densities of the principal gases’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, 23 March 1893), and ‘On an anomaly encountered in the determination of the density of nitrogen gas’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, 19 April 1894).

Page 56: Lord Rayleigh to Lady Ramsay. (15 June 1917)

Pages 87-108: Manuscript paper by Ramsey: ‘On a new gas contained in the air’. This paper was found by Professor Travers among Lady Ramsay’s papers. (7 August 1894)

The contents of this volume are listed in greater detail in item RAMSAY/18.
Extent1 volume
AccessStatusOpen
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