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Archive File: MS 391/138a

Photograph of senior students in chemistry at the Yorkshire College, session 1885-1886. Mounted on card and sitters identified on verso.

1885-1886

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Archive File: MS 416/1a/21

Letter to Arthur Smithells from: Carl Schorlemmer; 27 Hyde Grove, Manchester. 6th July 1885 Testimonials. MS 2 ff. .

1885

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Archive File: MS 391/130

Institute of Chemistry. Charter jubilee (1885-1935), report of the celebration. [London], 1935. 64 [p Attached to front cover: a press-cutting referring to the occasion.

1885-1935

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Archive File: MS 416/1b/421

Undated letter to Arthur Smithells from: Adolphus William Ward; Owens College, Manchester. No date Acknowledges a copy of an address; thanks for his reception at Leeds. MS . c. 1885-1897.

1860-1950

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Archive File: MS 391/129

Institute of Chemistry. Charter jubilee ... 1885-1935 [menu, guest list and table plan for a] banquet at the Dorchester Hotel, London on Tuesday, 9th July 1935, Professor Jocelyn Thorpe ... President. 24 pp and plan.

1885-1935

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Archive File: MS 416/2f/550

A collection of portrait photographs, each mounted separately on card: 1. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, 1883. Photo: J Albert, Munich. 2. Bohuslav Brauner, 1883. Photo; Zak & Rachota, Prague. 3. Bohuslav Brauner, holding a child, No date photo: J Tomas, Prague. 4. Hermann Wilhelm Breymann, 1884. photo: F Muller, Munich; dated 1885 on verso. 5. Hermann Wilhelm Breymann, (?)1902. photo: J Mudd, Manchester. 6. John Caird, No date photographer not known. 7. Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, 1882. photo: F Muller, Munich; dated 1883 on verso. 8. Emil Hermann Fischer, 1890. photo: Dauthendey, Wurzburg. 9. Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, (?)1885. photo: J Gunkel, Heidelberg. 10 . William Henry Perkin, jr, No date photo: F Neumayer, Munich. 11. Thomas Edward Thorpe, 1876. photographer not known. 12. Ernst Anton Wulfing, 1883. photo: B Wehle, Dresden, &c. 13. Sydney Young, 1881 photo: W Brookes, jr, Manchester.

1876-1890

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Archive Collection: SC MS Smithells Contains digital media

Arthur Smithells correspondence and papers

Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)

1875-1955

Arthur Smithells (1860-1939) was born at Bury in Lancashire. He graduated in chemistry at Owen's College, Manchester, in 1881 (BSc, London) and subsequently continued his training in Heidelberg, under...

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Archive File: MS 391/Volume I

Volume I: Pamphlets on Flame

1887

1 Armstrong (Henry Edward) The Determination of the constitution of carbon compounds from thermochemical data, [with] Note on the foregoing communication, by Spencer Umfreville Pickering. Philosophica...

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Archive File: MS 391/Volume V

Volume V: Pamphlets on Flame

1882

1 Siemens (Ernst Werner von) Uber das Leuchten der Flamme. Sitzunsber. der koniglich preussischen Akadamie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Bd 44 (1882), pp 961-965- 2 Mabery (Charles Frederic) and Gold...

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Archive Sub-collection: MS 391 Contains digital media

Letters and papers of Professor Arthur Smithells, with some letters to his widow

Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939)

1887-1955

This collection was presented to the Library by Professor P A Smithells of the University of Otago, New Zealand, in 1975. He is Professor Arthur Smithells' son.

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