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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number RAMSAY/8/1
TitleWilliam Ramsay's correspondence and papers, vol. 8: The discovery of helium (part 1)
Date1895-[1957]
DescriptionVolume 8/1 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 1-8: Introduction.

Pages 28c-37: Correspondence following Travers’ [letter to?] the journal ‘Nature’, on Ramsay and helium. (1935)

Pages 38-121: Correspondence and papers, including photographs of extracts from Ramsay’s laboratory notebooks. (February-April 1895).

Pages 63-66: Copy of paper by W. Ramsay, ‘On a gas showing the spectrum of helium’ (‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 58, 1895).

Pages 66-69: ‘On the new gas obtained from Uranite, preliminary note’, by J. Norman Lockyer.

Page 82: Photograph of M. Berthelot.

Pages 92-108: Manuscript of Ramsay’s address to the French chemical society.
Extent1 volume
AccessStatusOpen
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