| Description | Volume 7/3 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:
Inside front cover: Photocopy of Ramsay’s paper, ‘Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere’ (from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 57, 1895)
Pages 262-281: Correspondence, papers, extracts from laboratory notebooks, newspaper cuttings. (February 1895 – March 1896)
Pages 282-341: Draft of part of Ramsay’s paper on argon.
Pages 342-364: Printed abstract of the above.
Pages 367-374: K. Olszewski’s ‘Liquefaction and solidification of argon’ (manuscript). (January 1895)
Pages 375-381: Manuscript redraft of Ramsay’s paper on argon.
Pages 382-384: Printed extract of the above (from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, vol. 57, 1895).
Pages 415-419: Manuscript of Ramsay’s lecture on air at the Old Vic, 26 February 1895.
Pages 442-454: Manuscript of unpublished paper by Ramsay; experiments designed to measure the relative values of the specific heat of a constant volume of air and argon.
At the end of the volume: Report of the Annual General Meeting of the Chemical Society 27 March 1895 (printed).
Pages 476-477: Newspaper cuttings on the life of Lord Rayleigh. (1924-1925)
The contents of this volume are listed in greater detail in item RAMSAY/18. |