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  • M0011826: Reproduction of a woodcut of a continuous burning type distillation furnace with four stills from Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, 1512
  • M0011859: Reproduction of a page showing "chymicall characters" or chemical symbols in use during 17th century from Moses Charas' The royal pharmacopoea, Galencial and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France, 1678
  • Chemistry: plan and section of two blast furnaces. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804, after D. Mushett.
  • Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796.
  • M0011823: Reproduction of a woodcut depicting the preparation of nitric acid originally from a manuscript dedicated to Count Frederich I von Brandenburg in the National Museum, Nuremberg
  • Election of officers and council, 1973 : ...ballot paper / Royal Institute of Chemistry.
  • Alchemy: a double furnace with a glass vessel connected to it. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • To meet the President and members of the Society of Chemical Industry : the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress request the honour of the company of...
  • Reception to the president and members of the Society of Chemical Industry : the Mansion House, July 19th, 1900 : programme of music to be performed by Pitman's Blue Viennese Orchestra.
  • Chemistry: various types of furnace. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • M0012703: Illustration of chemisrty apparatus
  • Chemistry: plan, section and detail of a reverbatory furnace. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • Chemistry: vertical section of a furnace used in evaporation. Engraving by Mutlow, 1810, after J. Farey.
  • Achema VII : Feugblatt Nr. 1 / Fr. Hildebrandt.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Chemistry: two kinds of blowpipe. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.
  • Christ, with a sword in his mouth, between seven candlesticks; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 1772/3.
  • M0012702: Illustration of apparatus to make mineral water
  • A chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Etching by R. Clee, ca. 1750, after J. de Lajoue, ca. 1735.
  • The Metropolitan Laboratory, 32, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C. : scale of fees / H.S. Carpenter.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: alchemy and chemistry section of first floor galleries. Photograph, 1924.
  • Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.
  • Chemistry: geometrical representations of crystalline substances. Engraving by J. Pass, 1802, after H. Lascelles.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • Anniversary dinner : The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool : Thursday April 13th 1961 at 7.30 for 8 p.m. : the president Sir Alexander Todd, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. in the chair / the Chemical Society.
  • Chemistry. Oil painting.
  • M0011884: Reproduction of a table of metallic compounds used in pharmacy from Méthode de nomenclature chimique, 1787
  • Chemistry: various types of furnace. Engraving by J. Taylor.
  • King James I of England on his deathbed, attended by courtiers trying to poison him. Etching by or after W. Hollar, ca. 1672.