Plummer, Andrew (1698-1756)

MISSING SINCE 1983.

Notes taken from Dr. Plummer's Chymical Lectures. The name is spelt 'PLUMBER' on the spine. Produced in Edinburgh.

1746

1 volume 2 ll. + 356 pp. 8vo. 17 × 101/2 cm. 19th cent. half-calf binding.

Purchased at Sotheby's 20/6/1906, Lot 771 (part).

Andrew Plummer who succeeded James Craufurd as the second professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University in 1726, retained the post until 1755. He had been a pupil of Boerhaave at Leyden University where he obtained his M.D. in 1722.

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).

From the Library of Sir William Mitchell Banks [1842-1904].