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RefNoEC/1899/15
Previous numbersCert XII, 93
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TitleTutton, Alfred Edwin Howard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAssociate Royal College Science. Member Mineral Soc. Inspector, Science and Art Department. Has made discoveries in crystallography, and has invented instruments for research in this branch of science. Is the author of the following papers: 'Connection between Atomic Weight of Contained Metals and the Magnitude of the Angles of Crystals of Isomorphous Series. A Study of the Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium Salts of the Series R2M(SO4)2, 6H2O' (Journ Chem Soc, 1893, p 337; and Zeits fur Kryst, vol xxi, p 491); 'An Instrument for Grinding Section-Plates and Prisms of Crystals of Artifical Preparations Accurately in the Desired Directions' (Phil Trans, 1894A, p 887, and Zeits fur Kryst, vol xxiv, p 433); An Instrument for Producing Monochromatic Light of any Desired Wave-Length, and its use in the Investigation of the Optical Properties of Crystals' (Phil Trans, 1894A, p 913; and Zeits fur Kryst, vol xxiv, p 455); 'Connection between the Atomic Weight of Contained Metals, and the Crystallographical Characters of Isomorphous Salts. The Volume and Optical Relationships of the Potassium, Rubidium, and Caesium Salts of the Series R2M(SO4)2, H2O' (Journ Chem Soc, 1896, p 344; and Zeits fur Kyrst, vol xxvii, p 113); 'Comparison of the Results of the Investigations of the Simple and Double Sulphates, and General Deductions concerning the Influence of Atomic Weight on Crystal Character' (Journ Chem Soc, 1896, p 495; and Zeits fur Kryst, vol xxvii, p 252); 'Connection between the Crystallographical Characters of Isomorphous Salts and the Atomic Weight of the Metals Contained. A Study of the Normal Selenates of Potassium, Caesium' (Journ Chem Soc, 1897, p 846; and Zeits fur Kryst): and of various papers in the Journal of the Chemical Society and other journals. Author of the following Memoirs, in conjunction with Professor Thorpe: 'Phosphorus tetroxide' (Journ Chem Soc, 1886, p 833); 'Phosphorus Oxide, Part I' (ibid, 1890, p 545); 'Phosphorus Oxide, Part II' (ibid, 1891, p 1019); 'Uber Phosphoroxysulfid' (Zeits Anorg Chem, 1892, 5).
ProposersL Fletcher; W de W Abney; Henry E Roscoe; T E Thorpe; W A Tilden; H A Miers; A V Harcourt; W Odling; H Muller; R B Clifton; J Perry; J J Thomson; G D Liveing
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Tutton, Alfred Edwin Howard: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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