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
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Description
Box of laboratory glassware and other apparatus for the chemical examination of soil using acids.
The accompanying article describes: ‘the reagents are sold, together with the instruments mentioned above, by Mr. Knight, Foster Lane, Cheapside, arranged in an appropriate chest.’
Plate 3, 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.III 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.
The accompanying article describes: ‘the reagents are sold, together with the instruments mentioned above, by Mr. Knight, Foster Lane, Cheapside, arranged in an appropriate chest.’
Plate 3, 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.III 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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