IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1149-1150
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin (1827-1907)
Date(s): c 1860-1870
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Berthelot | Pierre Eugène Marcelin | 1827-1907 | French chemist and politician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1827; member of the staff of the Collège de France as assistant to A.J. Balard, 1851; Professor of Organic Chemistry at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie, 1859; chair of organic chemistry, Collège de France, 1865; member of the Academy of Medicine, 1863; entered the Academy of Sciences, 1873; Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, 1889; Inspector General of Higher Education, 1876; elected Life Senator, 1881; Minister of Public Instruction, 1886-1887; portfolio for foreign affairs, 1895-1896; died, 1907.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes on nitrogen and on explosives, c 1860-1870.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
System of arrangement:
Arranged as follows: notes on nittrogen and notes on explosives.
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: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1930.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: Aug 2008