Bucquet, Jean Baptiste (1746-1780)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.1408-1409
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Bucquet, Jean Baptiste (1746-1780)
Date(s)	: 1777
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Bucquet | Jean Baptiste | 1746-1780 | French physician and chemist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jean Baptiste Bucquet first studied law, but turned to medicine and chemistry, and began giving private chemical lessons around 1769. In 1776, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at the École de Médicine. He collaborated with Lavoisier in work on gases and their effects on substances. He was a member of the Paris Academie des Sciences.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

'Notes du Cours de chymie de Mr. Bucquet aux Écoles de Médecine en l'année', 1777, on the cover of the first volume a late 18th cent. hand has written below the title: 'Faites par mon malheureux et ingrat enfant qui m'a plongé un poignard dans le sang qui pénétre chaque jour de plus en plus, et qui sans doute aura péri dans la traversée en passant dans les provinces en guerre contre l'Angleterre'. Produced in Paris.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1929.

Allied Materials

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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:
Feb 2009