Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21218

    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
    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.
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