Exhibits at the Anglo-American Exposition, London 1914 / Frederick B. Power, Director of the Laboratories.

  • Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Exhibits at the Anglo-American Exposition, London 1914 / Frederick B. Power, Director of the Laboratories. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appliances for conducting ultimate analyses, whilst two other furnaces of the most approved construction are available in the laboratories ; it also contains a large electric motor for working the shaking and stirring apparatus, the drug mill, etc., and a dark-room adapted for polarimetric or photographic work. A view of a portion of the combustion room is shown on page ,78. In direct communication with the basement are dry and commodious vaults, which afford ample room for the storage of the heavier chemicals and the reservm stock of glass-ware, etc. By means of a small lift, articles may be conveniently transported from the basement to any floor of the building. From this brief description, and the accompanying photographic illustrations, it will be seen that the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories are unique in their appointments and in the purpose they are designed to accomplish. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to explain that some of the problems which engage the time and attention of members of the staff—which comprises a number of highly-skilled and experienced chemists—are of technical application, having reference to the perfection of the chemical products of Burroughs ^^ellcome & Co. These naturally do not always afford material for publication, and many other difficult researches extend over con- siderable periods of time. Nevertheless, more than one hundred and sixty publications, embodying the results of original work contributed to various scientific societies, and consecutively numbered, have already been issued. Other investigations in progre.ss will, from time to time, form the subjects of future communications. Although too short a period has elapsed since the establishment of these laboratories to afford much material for a historical retrospect, their present measure of success may be considered to have justified the expectations of their founder and of those who are in s^unpathy with the work which they aim to accomplish.