Saponification

Translation of several Memoirs on the subject of saponification from the 'Annales de Chimie' and the 'Annales de Chimie et de Phisique', by M. Chevreul. The latest date of the Memoirs is 1824.

c. 1825

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 84 pp. + 46 bl. ll. folio. 311/2 x 20 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1922.

At Wellcome Collection:

Papers of Hugh Lee Pattinson, the translator of this work, are held as MSS.3800-3813.

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).

The translator is Hugh Lee Pattinson [1796-1858], as this MS. is written by the same hand as MS. No. 3805 [Pattinson] which contains Pattinson's Armorial book-plate.

Originally in a brown-paper cover, lettered 'Common Place-Book. No. 2.' This has now been lost.