Reference number | AP/36/19 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, regarding compounds of iodine and strychnine from William Bird Herapath to George Gabriel Stokes |
Date | 20 June 1855 |
Description | Herapath asks Stokes to announce to the Royal Society that he has been engaged in investigating the optical and chemical properties of some crystalline compounds of iodine and strychnine. He describes these compounds as 'strongly indicative and peculiar'.
Subject: Chemistry
Received 21 June 1855. Communicated by Stokes.
This letter was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Letter from Dr. Herapath to Professor Stokes, on the compounds of iodine and strychnine'. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0104 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |
NA7695 | Herapath; William Bird (1820 - 1868); surgeon | 1820 - 1868 |