| Description | Volume containing a copy of the paper "Argon and its Companions" by Ramsay and Travers published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, November 1900, prefaced by the original manuscript in the hands of Ramsay and Travers. A typescript note by Travers explains that the paper was written by them interchangeably, with one picking up where the other left off. The printed material is annotated [by Travers?] and the volume includes manuscript and typescript notes by Travers, letters etc. The paper is followed by another, "The Spectra of Neon, Krypton and Xenon" by E C Baly, also published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1903.
The volume includes cuttings and offprints of other papers, diagrams and photographs of equipment (mostly dating from 1890s-1900s) and a photograph of Ramsay, Travers and other students and workers in the lab c1895. Travers has annoted the photographs of equipment to explain how it was set up and used. |