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Authorised form of nameHerapath; William Bird (1820 - 1868); surgeon
Dates1820 - 1868
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBristol, Gloucestershire, England
Date of birth28 February 1820
Place of deathBristol, Gloucestershire
Date of death12 October 1868
Research fieldMedicine
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
MD (London)
Career:
Surgeon, St Peter's Hospital, Bristol.
Memberships:
MRCS; FRSE; Microscopical Society of Bristol (President)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1859
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Notes:
According to index to BR he was listed as a defaulter on PL in 1865 and re-admitted by 1866. Precise birth date comes from DSB; index to BR gives only year.
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/311772431
CodeNA7695
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1859/05Herapath, William Bird: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/3/136Referee's report by Alexander William Williamson, on a paper 'Researches on the cinchona alkaloids' by William Bird Herapath4 July 1858
AP/40/3/3Unpublished figures, sulphate iodo-quinine and sulphate iodo-cinchonidin by William Bird Herapath1857
MC/5/311Letter from M [Michael] Faraday to C R [Charles Richard] Weld, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 February 1857
MC/7/289Letter from W [William] Bird Herapath, Toxicological & Micro-Chemical Laboratory, Old Market Street, Bristol, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society3 January 1866
MC/7/294Letter from W [William] Bird Herapath, Toxicological & Micro-Chemical Laboratory, Old Market Street, Bristol, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society14 January 1866
MC/7/290Letter from W [William] Bird Herapath, Bristol, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society and to the Council6 January 1866
MC/7/299Letter from W [William] Bird Herapath, Toxicological & Micro-Chemical Laboratory, Old Market Street, Bristol, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society27 January 1866
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
MC/8/322Letter from M Herapath, Surrey House, Brunswick Square, Bristol, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]18 February 1869
RR/3/135Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Researches on the cinchona alkaloids' by William Bird Herapath27 April 1858
RR/2/98Referee's report by Baden Powell, on a paper 'Further researches into the properties of the sulphate of lodo-quinine or Herapathite, more especially in regard to its crystallography, with additional facts concerning its optical relations' by William Bird Herapath26 April 1854
RR/3/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Researches on the cinchona alkaloids' by William Bird Herapath27 April 1858
AP/36/19Letter, regarding compounds of iodine and strychnine from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes20 June 1855
AP/38/27Letter, 'On the detection of strychnia by the formation of iodostrychnine' from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes7 June 1856
AP/39/7Letter, 'On the optical characters of certain alkaloids associated with quinine, and of the sulphates of their iodo-compounds' from William Bird Herapath to [George Gabriel] Stokes6 January 1856
AP/40/3/5Unpublished figures, cinchonidin and quinidin crystals by William Bird Herapath1857
AP/40/3/4Unpublished figures, 'sulphate iodo-cinchonidin as altered by dilute sulphuric or sulphurous acid' by William Bird Herapath1857
AP/40/4Unpublished appendix, 'Further notice respecting the optical and chemical characters of the iodo-sulphates of cinchona alkaloids' by William Herapath Bird14 June 1857
AP/40/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Researches on cinchona alkaloids: critical examination of the ordinary methods employed for the discrimination of the cinchona alkaloids, quinine, quinidin, quinicine, and cinchonine, cinchonidin, cinchonicine, together with the optical and chemical characters of their iodo sulphates, upon which new methods are founded' by William Bird Herapath1857
AP/40/3Unpublished paper, 'Researches on cinchona alkaloids: critical examination of the ordinary methods employed for the discrimination of the cinchona alkaloids, quinine, quinidin, quinicine, and cinchonine, cinchonidin, cinchonicine, together with the optical and chemical characters of their iodo sulphates, upon which new methods are founded' by William Bird Herapath1855-1857
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
PP/6/19Paper, 'On a remarkable phenomenon of crystalline reflection' by G G [George Gabriel] Stokes1885
RR/2/97Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'Further researches into the properties of the sulphate of lodo-quinine or Herapathite, more especially in regard to its crystallography, with additional facts concerning its optical relations' by William Bird Herapath21 April 1854
MC/22/111Letter from Major E Herapath, Ravendale Hall, near Grimsby, to the Secretary of the Royal Society15 October 1907
NLB/36/358Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Major E Herapath, Ravendale Hall, near Grimsby17 October 1907
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
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