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Papers and correspondence of Sir Humphry Davy.


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Reference HD
Covering dates 1780 - 1832
Held by Royal Institution of Great Britain
Extent Approx 27 boxes
Creators Davy, Sir Humphry, 1778 - 1829, 1st Baronet, physicist


Contents:
Personal and professional
Correspondence, lecture notes, laboratory notebooks, diplomas and certificates, articles and notes.


Expand   Bond and undated lecture notes  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy: Lectures 1805-1808  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy: Lectures 1809-10  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy: Lectures 1811-12  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy: Honours and Diplomas  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Laboratory Notebook  HD/6  October 1805 to July 1809
Expand   Laboratory Notebook  HD/7  August 1809 to October 1812
Expand   Davy: Laboratory Notebook  HD/7/A  1813-1821
Expand   Royal Institution Laboratory Notebook  HD/8/A  6 June 1821 to 13 December 1829
Expand   Royal Institution Laboratory Notebook  HD/8/B  January 1830 to 18 December 1861
Expand   Davy letters and papers  [no ref.]  1797-1828
Expand   Davy papers collected by Faraday  [no ref. or date]
Expand   [no title]  HD/11  1815-1832
Expand   Davy's Commonplace Book.  [no ref.]  1812-1815
Expand   Davy's Personal notebooks.  [no ref.]  1795-1823
Expand   Davy's Personal Notebooks  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy's Personal Notebooks, largely relating to Ireland  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Six notebooks containing lectures on geology  [no ref.]  1805
Expand   Six notebooks containing lectures on geology  [no ref.]  1805
Expand   Five notebooks containing lectures on agricultural chemistry.  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Six notebooks on the history of natural science (4), matter, agricultural chemistry.  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Scientific Observations 1799-1800  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Four notebooks  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Four notebooks, one belonging to Edmund Davy.  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Notebooks  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Elements of Chemical Philosophy  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Davy's correspondence with Mrs Apreece (Lady Davy)  [no ref.]  1811-2
Expand   Letters from H.Davy to his mother, Mrs Grace Davy, in Penzance  [no ref.]  1798-1826
Expand   Letters from Humphry Davy to members of his family  [no ref.]  1811-1829
Expand   Notebooks and papers  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Miscellaneous correspondence  [no ref. or date]
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/E/1  18 September 1816
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/E/2  13 August 1816
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/E/3  13 March 1818
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/F/1  22 January 1827
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/F/2  ca. 1815
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/F/3  13 April 1827
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/F/4  4 March 1824
Expand   [no title]  HD/26/F/5  5 March 1828
Expand   Correspondence with Gregory Watt  [no ref. or date]
Expand   Correspondence concerning publications  HD/26/I  [n.d.]
Expand   Poetry and correspondence  HD/26/H  [n.d.]
Expand   Copies of letters  HD/26/J  [n.d.]
Expand   Printed material  HD/26/L  [n.d.]
Expand   Bergman-Schwediauer correspondence  [no ref.]  1735-1784
Expand   Letters from Robert Southey  [no ref.]  1799-1831
Expand   Correspondence with S.T. Coleridge  [no ref.]  1800-1809
Expand   Correspondence  [no ref.]  1801 and 1815


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