IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 59
Held at: Royal Society
Title: McNab, John (b 1755)
Date(s): [c 1786]
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): McNab | John | b 1755 | master at Henley's House, Hudson Bay
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in Aberdour, Fife, 1755; joined the Hudson’s Bay Company as a surgeon and was sent to Albany Fort, on James Bay, 1779; spent five years as Master of Henley House; returned to Albany, where he eventually became Governor; Governor at Churchill for one year; Governor of York Factory, 1802-1807; first Hudson’s Bay Company man to lead an overland journey from Moose Fort to Montreal.
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Scope and content/abstract:
Two tracts on acids by John McNab comprising:
1. Experiments on Mineral Acids and Rectified Spirits of Wine, for finding the greatest degree of cold.
2. Experiments on the Congelation of Vitriolic and Nitrous Acids in Hudson's Bay.
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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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Paper, leather bound, size 13 x 8 inches
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Archivist's note: Sources: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/materialhistories/people.php?id=7
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.