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RefNoEC/1819/34
Previous numbersCert VI, 443; A06317
LevelItem
TitleSaussure, Nicolas Theodore de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationForeign Member
Mons Theodore DeSaussure, Professor of Mineralggy [sic] at Geneva, Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute of France, Author of various valuable Chemical Tracts, among which may be mentioned a work entitled 'Chemical Researches on Vegetation', as also an elaborate analysis of Alcohol and Ether; and recently, 'Observations on the decomposition of starch', just printed in the Philosophical Transactions; We the undersigned, do from our knowledge of himself or his works, recommend him as a proper person to be placed on the list of foreign members of the Society.
ProposersThomas Young; C Blagden; Alexr Marcet; Wm H Wollaston; Wm Thos Brande; Taylor Combe; M I Brunel; J Bostock; Fr Marryat
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Saussure, Nicolas Theodore de: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7456Saussure; Nicolas Theodore de (1767 - 1845)1767 - 1845
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