| Description | Volume 9/1 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:
At the front of the volume: Photograph of Ramsay.
Pages 1-39: Introduction.
Pages 41-221: Correspondence, papers, extracts from laboratory notebooks. (October 1895 – March 1898)
Pages 53-57: Ramsey’s ‘Helium, a gaseous constituent of certain minerals, part II, density’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 59, 1896).
Pages 67-69: W. Ramsay and J.N. Collie, ‘Helium and argon part III’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 60, 1896).
Pages 71-83: J.N. Collie and W. Ramsey, ‘On the behaviour of argon and helium when submitted to electric discharge’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 59, 1896).
Pages 85-99: W. Ramsay and J.N. Collie, ‘The homogeneity of helium and of argon’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 60, 1896).
Pages 141-147: W. Ramsey and M.W. Travers, ‘The gaseous constituents of certain mineral substances and neutral waters’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 60, 1897).
Pages 148-159: W. Ramsay and M.W. Travers, ‘Über die Lichbrechung von Luft, Sauerstoff, Argon, Wasserstoff und Helium’ (Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Bd. 25, 1898. Translated from paper in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 62, 1898).
Pages 177-185: ‘An undiscovered gas’, presidential address to the chemical section of the British Association Toronto, 1897, by William Ramsay (2 copies).
Pages 187-191: W. Ramsay and M.W. Travers, ‘The homogeneity of helium’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 62, 1898).
Pages 192-204: M.W. Travers, ‘The origin of the gases evolved on heating mineral substances, meteorites, etc.’ (reprinted from ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 64, 1898).
Pages 216-218: Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay, and John Shields, 'Über die Occlusion von Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff durch Palladium' (Zeitschrift fur anorganische chemie, Bd. 16, 1898. A translation of the abstract in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 62, 1898).
Pages 219-221: W. Ramsey and M.W. Travers, 'Fergusonit, ein endorthemes Mineral' (Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Bd. 25, 1898. Translated from paper in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, Vol. 62, 1898). |