IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 741
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Watts, Henry (1815-1884)
Date(s): 1853
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): Watts | Henry | 1815-1884 | chemist
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1815; Education: University College, London. BA (1841); Career: Articled to an architect and surveyor; took up teaching; assistant to George Fownes (FRS 1845); Professor of Practical Chemistry, University College, London (1849-1857); had a speech impediment; Editor, Journal of the Chemical Society (1849-1884); Fellow of the Royal Society, 1866; died, 1884.
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Papers of Henry Watts including lecture on Australia by Watts, Watts' passport and pamphlet publicising a fund set up to support his widow and children.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.