Gems, precious metals, etc.

Collection of notes on the making of artificial gems, chemistry of precious metals, and other chemical receipts. Compiler's holograph MS. The first 2 ll. are on 16mo. paper (11x9 cm.) and contain a list of chemical signs: pp. 1-12 are on blue note-paper of slightly smaller format than the remainder of the MS. This seems to be a fragment of a larger collection.

c.1850

2 ll.+52 pp. 8vo. 19x12 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1920.

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).