| RefNo | EC/1887/03 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 118 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Buchanan, John Young: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Chemist and Physicist to the 'Challenger' Expedition, 1872-1876. Invented and improved apparatus and methods for collecting and analysing ocean water. Author of 'Reports on the Specific Gravity of Ocean Water' (Part 2, vol i of 'The Voyage of HMS 'Challenger''). Since the return of the 'Challenger' Mr Buchanan has continued his investigations in the steam-yacht specially fitted up by him for the purpose. The following are the titles of some of the papers contributed by him to scientific Transactions and Journals: 'Sur l'acide chloropropionique' (Comp Rend, lxv, p 417); 'On the Formation and Decomposition of some Chlorinated Acids' (Proc Roy Soc Edin, vii, p 419); 'On the Absorption of Carbonic Acid by Saline Solutions' (Proc Roy Soc, xxii, pp 192 and 483); 'On the Specific Gravity of Ocean Water' (Proc Roy Soc Edin, ix, 283); 'On the Compressibility of Glass' (Trans Roy Soc Edin, 1880); 'On a Solar Calorimeter, and some observations made with it in Upper Egypt' (Proc Roy Soc Edin, xi, 827). |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge: James Caird
From Personal Knowledge: Alex Crum Brown; G S Nares; G H Richards; William Thomson; James Dewar; H E Roscoe; Balfour Stewart; Arthur Schuster; Arch Geikie; J Norman Lockyer; Wm Turner; T E Thorpe; W N Hartley; Isaac Bayley Balfour; G M Humphry; G J Romanes; [William B Carpenter] |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7128 | Buchanan; John Young (1844 - 1925); chemist and oceanographer | 1844 - 1925 |