Lectures on chemistry: notes by Charles Blagden

Lectures on chemistry. Holograph notes taken by Sir Charles Blagden [1748-1820], when a student at Edinburgh University. Produced in Edinburgh. Note that volume 7, MS.1225, includes printed tables describing preparations of antimony and mercury which were used as teaching tools at this time.

1766-1767

9 volumes 9 vols. v.s. Original boards. The first two volumes are of smaller size, and in paper covers. Written on rectos only.

From the Blagden Collection, presented June 1954.

At Wellcome Collection: Charles Blagden's own papers are held as MSS.1234-1252. His notes on lectures by John Gregory (1724-1773) are held with the Gregory material, as MSS.2612-2615.

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).