| RefNo | EC/1859/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert IX, 424; A03340 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Herapath, William Bird: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | The discoverer of the Optical and Chemical Characters of the sulphate of Iodo-quinine. The author of four paper in the Philosophical Magazine 1st On the Optical Properties & Chemical Characters of the Sulphate of Iodo-quinine (artifical Tourmaline),2nd On the Chemical Analysis of the same remarkable salt - 3rd On the Discovery of Quinine and Quinidine in the Urine of Patients under Treatment, 4th On the Manufacture of large Optical plates of Sulphate of Iodo-quinine. The inventor of a new polarizing medium, as an efficient substitute for the Tourmaline. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Chemistry. Eminent as a Chemist, Physiologist, and Microscopist. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. David Brewster; George E Day; Philip Kelland; J C Adams; W H Miller; Edwin Lankester; Geo Busk; N B Ward; J R Martin; Charles Pritchard; B C Brodie Junr; J H Gladstone; Henry Moseley; J J Sylvester; Chas Brooke; R D Grainger; A J Stephens; J Tyndall.
From Personal Knowledge. Golding Bird; A W Hofmann; T B Curling; C J B Williams; William Thos Brande; M Faraday; William B Carpenter; A Billing; A Tweedie; Robert Hunt |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7695 | Herapath; William Bird (1820 - 1868); surgeon | 1820 - 1868 |