Catalogue description Book of miscellaneous experimental notes, poems, sketches, compiled during tour of...

Book of miscellaneous experimental notes, poems, sketches, compiled during tour of France and Italy by Davy and Faraday.

Includes

P.i notes on experiments with nitre and magnesia.

P.1 experimental notes

Pp.3-4 notes on phosphate of ammonia.

Pp.5-7 notes on induction, potassium (1813), murine and analogues.

Pp.37-39 attempt to decompose nitrogen by the attraction of bodies that act upon hydrogen such as tellurium.

Pp.49-61 experiments on the combustion of the diamond and other carbonaceous substances [Phil. Trans. 1814, 557, read 23 June 1814].

Pp.63-67, 79-80 notes on visit to Italy (Vesuvius, Herculaneum, etc.).

P.89 accounts

Pp.90-92 experiments on the action of iodine on compounds of phosphorus and sulphur with chlorine.

Pp.103-4 experiments on the colours found in the Baths of Titus, 23 Nov. 1814.

Pp.109-12 experiments on ancient Roman colours, 23 Nov. and 2 Dec. 1814.

Pp.113-16 plan of paper on the phenomena of the formation of Travertin, Lacus Albulae - Albunea of the ancients

Pp.117-18 notes of activities.

Pp.113-14, 119-20 experiments on coloured glass, 9 Dec. 1814.

Pp.121-22 notes on potassium and on conductors.

Pp.123-26 notes on the philosophy of science.

Pp.128-29 notes on iodine.

Pp.131-35 notes on compounds of iodine, which Davy called oxyiodes.

Pp.137-45 On the action of some compound gases on iodine.

Pp.145-56 paper on the discovery of iodine by M. Courtois an experiments by Davy on iodine.

P.158 note of experiments in the solar spectrum in its relations to the chemical changes and galvanic electricity.

Pp.158-70 experiments on iodine.

Pp.171-73 On the transition of lava into basalt.

Pp.175-80 experiments on muriate of silver.

Pp.181-99 experiments on iodine, March 1814; interspersed with brief travel notes.

P.200 notes on potassium.

Pp.201-10 notes of work on the composition of nitrous acid.

P.212 F. Delaroche's propositions on radiant heat.

Pp.213-15 notes on experiments on the decomposition of nitre

Pp.216-41 notes on the analysis of minerals and the densities of gases from Annales de Chimie and Memoires d'arceuil.

Pp.242-43 notes on the decomposition of some combinations of fluorine and chlorine.

P.244 notes on granite.

Pp.246-257 analysis of produce per acre from various grasses, with calculations.

P.256 kidney potato analysis by Dr Pearson.

P.275 note by [John] Davy, 7 Nov. 1855, about the compilation and provenance of the book.

Pp.88, 130, 136, 268-9, 273-4 calculations

Pp.102, 106-8 sketches

Pp.1, 8-36, 40-47, 69-78, 81-7, 93-9, 258-66, 270-72 poetry, including Fontainebleau, 29 Dec. (pp.29-36 Mont Blanc, 5 Jan. 1814 (pp.40-45), Pont de Guardo 6 Jan. 1813 [?1814], (pp.46-47), The Mediterranean pine, Montpelier, 14 Jan. 1814 (pp.76-78)