Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné (1802-1887)

Recherches chimiques sur la végétation entreprises dans le but d'examiner si les plantes prennent de l'azote à l'atmosphère. Author's holograph MS. Produced in Paris.

1838

1 volume 6 ll. folio. 21 x 33 cm. Unbound. On the first leaf is the stamp of the 'Institut Royal de France' in red.

Purchased 1930.

The author was professor of chemistry at Lyons, and later of agricultural and analytical chemistry in Paris. He was elected President of the Académie des Sciences in 1849.

Database description transcribed from 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).