Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21217

    Apparatus for soil analysis

    Date
    1805
    Creator
    Wilson Lowry (1762 - 1824, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 128mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Laboratory glassware for the chemical examination of soil using acids.

    The accompanying article describes: ‘F. G, H, K. The different parts of the apparatus required for measuring the quantity of elastic fluids given out during the action of an acid on calcerous soils. I. The graduated measure.’

    Plate 2, illustrating the paper: ‘On the analysis of soils, as connected with their improvement. By Humphry Davy…’. The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.23, (1805-1806) pp.26-41.

    Inscribed above: ‘Philo. Mag. Pl.II Vol.XXIII. Analysis of Soils, by H. Davy Esqr.’. Inscribed below: ‘Lowry sculp. 89’.

    Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), British engraver and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.

    Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), chemist and inventor, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He served as President from 1820 to 1827.
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