IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP5
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: MILLER, Professor William Allen (1817-1870)
Date(s): 1848-1852
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Miller | William Allen | 1817-1870 | Professor of Chemistry
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 17 December 1817, Ipswich; Demonstrator of Chemistry, King's College London, 1840; MB and MD, University of London, 1841-2; Professor of Chemistry at King's College London, 1845; Fellow, Royal Society, 1845; died, 30 September 1870.
Publications: Elements of Chemistry, theoretical and practical (London, 1855-1857); Introduction to the study of inorganic chemistry (1871); editor of Elements of meteorology (John W. Parker, London, 1845); On the importance of chemistry to medicine (London, 1845); Practical hints to the medical student (London, 1867).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Out letter book, 1848-1852, containing copy letters relating to applied chemistry, in particular to the role of Professor William Allen Miller as a consultant retained by the Western Gaslight Company, and charged with improving the efficiency of its manufacturing facility at Vauxhall, Surrey, and in a similar capacity to undertake the analysis of particulate residues and other by-products of incomplete combustion in an industrial setting; the experimental analysis of various phosphates and salts; commentary upon the telegraph and upon suggestions that the earth itself could act as a substitute electrical conductor over distances.
Chemistry teaching and research notes, c 1845
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two items as described i Scope and Content
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
The wet letter process was used in the letter book and consequently many of the letters are faint and unclear.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Letter book transferred by the Chemistry Department, King's College London. Notes loaned by Mr David Tarbun, 2002.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
King's College London College Archives holds further entries relating to the career of Professor Miller in King's College Council Minutes (Ref: KA/C/M); King's College Professorial Board Minutes (Ref: KA/PB/M).
Letters to Sir George Stokes, 1856-1870, are held at the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Library (Ref: Add 7342, 7656).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: King's College London Calendars. Entry compiled by Annabel Dodds and Geoff Browell.
Date(s) of descriptions: 18 July 2000