F. B. Power's collection of cuttings (professional)

Date:
1851-1920
Reference:
WF/E/07/04/16
Part of:
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Various items of professional interest retained by Power; cuttings from newspapers and journals, catalogues, etc, including:

Les Nouveaux Remèdes (Journal Bi-Mensuel de Pharmacologie, Thérapeutique, Hydrologie et Chimie Médicale), No. 22, 24 November, 1913;
Chemistry books catalogue for John Wiley and Sons, New York (c.1920);
Booklet giving information about the "Féry Refractometer" (Adam Hilger Ltd, London);
Publicity flier for "Descriptive Catalogue of Essential Oils and Organic Chemical Preparations" compiled by F.B. Power, Director Laboratories of Fritzsche Brothers at Garfield, NJ (1894);
two reviews (cuttings) of Frederick Hoffman and Frederick B Power (1883), A Manual of Chemical Analysis, as supplied to the examination of Medicinal Chemicals;
Pharmaceutische Zeitung (Berlin, 9 May 1896) - complete copy, unmarked;
"The Discovery of Peruvian Bark" - cutting from National Druggist (St Louis, September, 1884);
promotional literature (D O Haynes & Co, Detroit) - "Practical Books for The Druggist";
"The cultivation and manufacture of Patna Opium," reprinted from the Pharmaceutical Journal (November 1851) - stamped "Fluckiger";
"Archir der Pharmacie Zeitschrift des Deutschen Apotheker-Vereins" (1882, reprinted);
Anthropological Society of Washington card, for an address by W H R Rivers on "Ethnology: Its Aims and Needs" (6 March, 1920);
G T Morgan and E Holmes, "Note on the ketonic constituent of a sample of Algerian oil of rue" (reprinted paper, with the authors' compliments);
notice of an appeal for contributions on the retirement of Professor [Friedrich A] Flückiger, appeal co-ordinated by Prof A Tschirch, in whose hand the sheet is addressed to Power (franked 1892);
"Papain, the Vegetable Pepsin: Its Origin, Properties, Uses" (Lehn & Fink, New York):
O Wiegand and K Rübke, "Verfälschung von Bergamottöl mit Citronensäureester" (reprinted, 1910);
and various small newspaper cuttings.

Publication/Creation

1851-1920

Physical description

1 file

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