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Friedel, Charles (1832-1899)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.6067-6068

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Friedel, Charles (1832-1899)

Date(s): 1876-1894

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Friedel | Charles | 1832-1899 | chemist and mineralogist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Sorbonne, Paris.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes by Charles Friedel on chemistry and chemical substances, probably for lectures given as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Sorbonne, Paris, after 1884 and miscellaneous papers, including a draft address, and letters and certificates concerning honours conferred on Friedel by the Chemical Society, by Oxford University, and by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French and some English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Among memorabilia presented by Prof. Jean Friedel and Prof. Blaise, 1934.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Chemists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Chemistry
Mineralogy

Personal names
Friedel | Charles | 1832-1899 | chemist and mineralogist

Corporate names

Places
Paris | France | Western Europe | Europe