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Watts, Henry (1815-1884)


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

CONTEXT

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods

Personal names
Watts | Henry | 1815-1884 | chemist

Corporate names

Places
Australia | Oceania