Armstrong Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 140
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Armstrong Papers
Date(s)	: Created 1929-1930
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 envelope
Name of creator(s)	: Armstrong | Henry Edward | 1848-1937 | chemist and educationalist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born Lewisham, London, 1848; educated at the Royal College of Chemistry, 1865-1867, University of Leipzig, 1867-1870; lecturer, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1870; Professor of Chemistry, London Institution, 1870; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1876; Professor of Chemistry at the Cowper Street Schools (later Finsbury Technical College), 1879; Professor of Chemistry, Central Technical College (later the City and Guilds College), 1884-1913; President of the Chemical Society, 1893-1895; Davy medal of the Royal Society, 1911; Professor Emeritus, Imperial College, 1913; died, 1937. Publications include: Essays on the Art and Principles of Chemistry, including the first Messel Memorial Lecture (Ernest Benn, London, 1927); Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry Second edition (Longmans & Co, London, 1874); The Teaching of Scientific Method, and other papers on education Second edition (Macmillan & Co, London, 1903).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence, article and reviews relating to the works of August Kekulé.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German and English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Originally inserted in the copy of Kekulé's Lehrbuch de Organischen Chemie, 1861-1866, at University College London.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Source: AIM25 description of the Armstrong Papers at Imperial College.

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Jul 2001