Catalogue description Collection of Davy's scientific papers, containing   P.2 List of papers in volume.   P.3...

Collection of Davy's scientific papers, containing

P.2 List of papers in volume.

P.3 Note by Faraday on provenance of papers, Jan. 1832.

Pp.4-15 On the safety lamp. Notes [by Davy and Faraday] on Mr George Stephenson's claim to have invented a safety lamp and details of experiments done on Mr Stephenson's lamps

Pp.24-46 [On the analogies between the undecompounded substances and on the constitution of acids.] Note by Faraday (p.24) that paper was published in the Quarterly Journal of Science, vol. 1, p.283, May/June 1816. Written in pencil.

Pp.54-60 Notice of some experiments and new views respecting flames, by Sir H. Davy. Note by Faraday (p.54) that paper published in Quarterly Journal of Science, vol.2, 124, 21 July 1816.

Pp.64-94 Some researches on flame, by Sir H. Davy; published in Philosophical Transactions, 1817, p.45; read 8 Jan. 1817. Davy's draft pp. 67-74, 77-80, 82-94; Faraday's copy of parts of the paper pp.65-6, 75-6 and 81. Part written in ink, part in pencil.

Pp.98-110 [On the fallacy of experiments in which water is said to have been formed by the decomposition of chlorine Written in pencil. Note added by Faraday (p.98): published in Phil. Trans, 1818, p. 169; read Feb. 1819

Pp.118-156 General views on the principle and uses of the safet lamp. Note by Faraday (p.118) that paper was published in volume, Davy on the safety lamp and flame, p.1, 30 April 1818.

Pp.164-226 New experiments on some of the combinations of phosphorus, by Sir H. Davy. Faraday's note (p.164): published in Phil. Trans. 1818, p. 316; read April 1818.

Pp.234-267 [Report on the state of the manuscripts of papyrus, found at Herculaneum.] Faraday's note (p.234): published in Quarterly Journal of Science, vol.1, p.154; dated Rome, 12 Feb. 1819.