Chemistry
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
File
A Manuscript Note-book, c 1681-c 1693
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3975
Scope and Contents
Notes on precious stones, colours, temperatures, salts, medical matters, alchemy and other subjects, in English and Latin.
Dates:
c 1681-c 1693
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Fonds
Archives of the Department of Chemical Engineering, 1946 - 1989
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CENG
Scope and Contents
The records are largely concerned with the administration of the department and the teaching and examining of students.
Dates:
1946 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
Closure periods of 40 years are applied to Syndicate minutes, by order of the Syndicate, and 80 years to records containing personal data, under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Fonds
Archives of the Department of Chemistry, 1886 - 2017
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CHEM
Scope and Contents
The archives relate chiefly to the building, equipping and use of the new laboratories on Lensfield Road after World War Two and to Chemistry teaching from the 1960s onwards. For the former, there survive extensive series of building plans, equipment manuals, correspondence concerning supplies and photographs. For the latter, there are course outlines, problems and solutions and demonstrators' notebooks. Among the project files of Dr Chris Haley, departmental archivist/historian,...
Dates:
1886 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access:
Certain personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in individual catalogue entries. Digital records are in the process of being ingested into the University Library's preservation repository. There is currently no access to this material.
Fonds
Bakhuis Roozeboom: Heterogeneous equilibria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7969
Scope and Contents
A translation by Ronald Bathgate of Dr Roozeboom's 'Heterogeneous equilibria in the light of the phase theory, vol. 1: phase theory, systems of one component', 297 pages. A foreword explains that 'the object of this book is to give an overall picture of the present state of knowledge of equilibria in heterogeneous systems'. There is a contents page at the beginning, and a subject index at the end, which is followed by photocopied chapters in German taken from various published sources. The...
Dates:
1950 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Chemical Observations and Related Notes
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5978
Scope and Contents
A series of descriptions of, and observations on, various chemical experiments, fos 1-67, with an index at fos 77v-79r. This is followed by medical recipes written in another hand, fos 68-76 and 84v, the last of which is dated 1706. On fo. 1 in the second hand is 'John Fry / Wooburne / Beddfordshire', and opposite in the same hand 'Hic Liber est meus'. Most of the versos are blank. Loose in the book are accounts on a slip of paper dated 6 April [17]74.
Dates:
1700-1774 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Cours de chymie, Late seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.53
Scope and Contents
'Cours de chymie. Joan: Francis: Vigani. Veronensis': contains directions for compounding chemical preparations. Towards the end of the volume are miscellaneous notes and presecriptions.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Francis William Aston: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8322
Scope and Contents
Aston's research papers consist of four notebooks recording work on positive rays, 1911-1913, and a few unidentified manuscript calculations. His time at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough is documented by reports on his work submitted to the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1917-1919 and a humorous account of wartime activities at Farnborough by an unidentified author. Publications material consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of a small number of Aston's publications,...
Dates:
1901-1945 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
George Crabbe: Notebooks on entomology, botany and chemistry
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4190-4192, 4194
Dates:
1792-1817
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Minutes and officers's files of the New Pythagoreans, 1929 - 1992
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.95
Scope and Contents
From the Management Group:
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates:
1929 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Minutes of conjoint meetings of Special Boards for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, and Biology and Geology, 1885 - 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.44
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.
Dates:
1885 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Minutes of speaker meetings of the Cambridge University Chemical Society, signed, 1960 - 1971
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.97
Scope and Contents
The minutes give detailed accounts of lectures and are frequently accompanied by diagrams. The speaker meetings were often held as joint meetings with the Chemical Society (London) or the Royal Institute of Chemistry.
Dates:
1960 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Minutes of the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry, predecessor and subordinate bodies, 1882 - 1974
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.V.83-8 etc
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
Minutes of Boards of Studies, from 1926 known as Faculty Boards, may cover governance, appointments, budgets, curriculum development, examining and accommodation.
Dates:
1882 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access:
This material is closed to scholars for 50 years from the date of creation as a condition of transfer.
Fonds
Miscellaneous Notes, c 1670-c 1680
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3974
Scope and Contents
On gems and other subjects.
Dates:
c 1670-c 1680
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Fonds
Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand, 1670-1700
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3973
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.
Dates:
1670-1700
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Sub-Fonds
Papers of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, 1964 - 1997
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PC
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1964 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access:
This material is closed to scholars for 50 years from the date of creation as a condition of transfer to the University Archives. Additionally, Degree and Appointments Committees papers are closed for 80 years under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Fonds
Peter Mitchell papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mitchell (Peter)
Scope and Contents
Comprised of biographical materials, material related to Mitchell's daily work at the Glynn Research Institute, research material (including material from Mitchell's collaborators), publications, lectures and broadcasts, documentation of Mitchell's involvement with various societies and organisations, material related to visits and conferences, and a large selection of Mitchell's correspondence.
Dates:
1940-1994
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Norrish: Papers and Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8370
Scope and Contents
This small group of papers represents all that survives of the manuscript records of this distinguished chemist and Nobel Prize winner. It consists of correspondence received by Dainton and Thrush while they were working on the Royal Society memoir of Norrish, a few school and undergraduate diaries and notebooks, and some rather miscellaneous notes, drafts and correspondence. These include a complete draft for a very early (1922) unpublished paper 'Colour and Atomic Constitution ...' and...
Dates:
1912-1981 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Scientific Research - Academic, 1927 - 1974
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GOEV 2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising of articles, lectures, correspondence, a diary, research notes, press cuttings, photographs and microfilm.
Dates:
1927 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
The Papers of Karl Weissenberg
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WEIS
Scope and Contents
Papers comprising articles, lectures, notes, correspondence, photographs and textile samples.
Dates:
1938 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Todd
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TODD
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises notes, minutes and reports and correspondence with successive Lords President during the whole life of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy (ACSP) 1947-1964, of which Lord Todd was an original member and Chairman from 1952 onwards. There are papers relating to overseas research, scientific manpower, the "Brain Drain" and studies on natural resource research. There are also some bundles of papers of the Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) with which the...
Dates:
1920 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access:
Some files have been closed: please see individual files for details. The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Harold Hartley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HART
Scope and Contents
The papers include: diaries and engagement books; personal and general correspondence; early scientific papers and laboratory notebooks; papers and correspondence relating to Balliol College; papers relating to Hartley's chemical warfare work in the First World War; papers of the Axis Oil Committees, concerned with the problem of oil supplies to the Axis in the Second World War; the FIDO papers, from a committee headed by Hartley on Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations, also during the...
Dates:
1890-08 - 1978-08
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of some royal correspondence, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir John Meurig Thomas
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MEUR
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers.
Dates:
1960 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are closed until catalogued.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Treatise on Respiratory and other Diseases
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6856
Scope and Contents
Latin treatise on respiratory and other diseases, fos 1-25. There is a list of contents on fo. ii which is partly torn away. At the foot of this is the name 'Arthur Holl[ingworth]', and on fo. 43 in the same hand is 'Arthur Hollingworth P.tuo', below which, in a different hand, is 'Rowland Freeman 1705'. It is not clear if Hollingworth is the author or the scribe. After the treatise, in the same hand, are 'Clavis verborum omnium in Chymia', Latin and English explanations of chemical symbols...
Dates:
1703 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library