University of Dundee Archives

Letter from Henry E. Roscoe, London to Dr William J. Russell, Queen's College, Manchester

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15 June [1851?]

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Gives news of London and the College. The "subject of the Exhibition is very stale here". Richard Potter, juror in optical instruments 'in nearly every lecture talks vaguely about that Crystal place where gentlemen are waiting for him to inspect air pumps and microscopes'. Mr Watts "has come to the conclusion that it [Potter] is an ass". Williamson, Brodie and others think that a lecture by Faraday on 'Schonbein's Ozone' is "arrant humbug". 'It seems evident that it is in many cases Nitric Oxide which acts as Ozone'.

Letter from William Lingke, Freiberg, to Dr William J. Russell, Heidelberg

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2 July 1856.

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Quotes prices for scientific apparatus ordered by William P. Dexter in Heidelberg. [In German].

Letter from A.W. Miles, Wolverhampton to Dr William J. Russell

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24 February 1857.

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Gives details of Miles' work on potassium iodide including diagram of crystals. "Should you come into contact with any manufacturer of the substance, pray don't mention this, as it is the result of many tedious experiments only". He is also "fagging at Pepsin or Artificial Gastric Juice, newly proposed as a valuable remedy for Dyspepsia etc. - also at Amylene - which is proposed as an anaesthetic agent - a rival to Chloroform". He is overworked but cannot find suitable assistance.

Letter from Lyon Playfair, South Kensington to Dr William J. Russell

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21 February 1891

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Warns Russell that he will be late at a meeting.

Letter from Professor Victor Meyer, Heidelberg to Dr William J. Russell

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3 March 1891

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Thanks him for his stay in London.

Letter from F.A. Abel, London to Dr William J. Russell

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29 July 1896

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Abel feels that Armstrong's resignation of his fellowship of the Chemical Society would be regrettable and might do him and the society "substantial injury". Asks Russell if he will attend an informal meeting of past presidents with Armstrong to try to resolve the matter.

Postcard

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3 February 1885

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Paul Bunge, Hamburg to Alexander Scott, Durham. Notification that Bunge has sent price list to Scott and Dr Charles L. Ray of Cambridge. [In German].

Letter of introduction for Charles E.S. Phillips

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29 October 1899

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Lord Kelvin, Cambridge to Dr Alexander Scott. A letter of introduction for Charles E.S. Phillips who wishes to continue in the Davy-Faraday Laboratory experimental researches. Refers to the "first fruits" of Phillips work, the "beautiful discovery of rotating rings of light produced by the introduction of a magnetic field in a vacuum through which an electric current has been passed.

Letter of enclosure

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1 November 1899

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

James Crichton Brown, London to Dr Alexander Scott. A letter of enclosure with no specific information.

Letter from Percy Faraday Frankland, Northfield, Worcestershire to Dr Alexander Scott

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3 November 1903

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Percy Faraday Frankland, Northfield, Worcestershire to Scott. Offers Scott the external examinership in chemistry at the University of Birmingham and gives some details of the job.

Letter of William Crookes, London to Scott

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27 January 1904

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Crookes has had a careful examination of the Strontium spectrum and cannot find any traces of calcium or barium which speaks well for Scott's careful purification.

Letter from Serge Clausen, London to Scott

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15 November 1930.

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Encloses ticket for unspecified function; (not included). Thanks Scott for information on vermilion which he knows "has always been considered one of the doubtful colours". Mentions that some of the early Italians have used it successfully and that "Sargent used it as his principal red in flesh".

Letter from E. Rutherford to Scott

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6 January 1925

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Rutherford thanks Scott for his congratulations "on the O.M." which was "a pleasant if unexpected New Year surprise".

Letter from Percy F. Frankland, Loch Awe, Argyll to Scott

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27 November 1932

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Refers to the "distressing news about poor Millar Thompson's illness". He has been away the whole of September and October. Thanks him for the receipt of his lecture on the Romance of Museum Restoration and suggests that a handbook of the methods of restoration he has devised "would be of great use to others".

Miscellaneous letters

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c. 1909-1911

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Collection of letters to various recipients

Photogravures of prominent scientists of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Collection of engravings of learned scientists of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items appear to have been torn from a published work.

Professor Leopold Gmelin, late of the University of Heidelberg

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Engraved by C. Cook from a [painting by J. Woeltyle].

Dr Lyon Playfair, President of the Chemical Society

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Engraved by C. Cook from a photograph by A. Claudet.

Lavoisier

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Engraved by W.C. Sharpe from a [painting] by David

Sir Robert Kane, president of the Queen's College, Cork

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Sir Robert Kane, president of the Queen's College, Cork, engraved by S. Freeman from a [painting] by George F. Mulvany.

Baron Berzelius, professor of chemistry, University of Stockholm

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c.1870s

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Baron Berzelius, professor of chemistry, University of Stockholm, engraved by W.C. Sharpe from a [painting] by S. Soedermark.

Letter from Henry E. Roscoe, Heidelberg to Dr William J. Russell

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14 April 1856.

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Asks Russell to bring a few seeds for "Old Bunsen's garden". Gives a cryptic account of some people and events probably connected with the laboratory at Heidelberg, names include: Leap, Lowndes, Bunsen, "Faulein A...a", Matthiessen, Meyer, Quincke and Dexter. Advises Russell to travel to Germany via Paris as coming by the Rhine is very slow.

Letter from Henry E. Roscoe, Owen's College, Manchester to Dr William J. Russell

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December 1885.

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Roscoe replies to circular sent by Russell concerning chemical instruction for medical students. Thinks that lectures and practical work should run concurrently and be complementary and gives specific examples. Considers that some knowledge of organic chemistry is necessary. Suggests timetable of lectures

Letter from H.E. Armstrong [Central Technical College] to Russell

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15 December 1885

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Remarks on the teaching of chemistry to medical students. Some subjects could be dropped and others previously neglected given greater importance. The student "should have opportunity to acquire some practice in quantitative analysis". Gives some specific examples. Considers that prospective medical students should gain some knowledge of chemistry at school.

Letter from William Crookes, Sark, Channel Islands to Scott

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31 July 1910

Part of Dr Alexander Scott's correspondence and letters

Thanks Scott and his wife for their congratulations on his honour of an O.M. He appreciates the honour more "as it looks like an appreciation of the value of chemistry and abstract research to the nation".

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