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RefNoEC/1890/11
Previous numbersCert XI, 185
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TitlePickering, Percival Spencer Umfreville: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationProfessor of Chemistry at Bedford College. Distinguished as an investigator of the thermal changes attending dissolution of salts. Author of papers on 'The Action of Sulphuric Acid on Copper,' 'The Action of Hydrochloric Acid on Manganese Dioxide,' 'Sodium Thiosulphate and Iodine,' 'Basic Sulphates of Iron,' 'Sulphides of Copper,' 'The Constitution of Molecular Compounds,' 'Modifications of Sodium Sulphate,' 'Heat of Dissolution of Potassium and Lithium Sulphates,' 'Calorimetry of Magnesium Sulphates,' 'Modifications of Double Sulphates,' 'Multiple Sulphates,' 'Influence of Temperature on the Heat of Chemical Combination,' 'Water of Crystallisation,' Heat of Hydration of Salts,' and others, in all about forty, published in the Journ Chem Soc, the Phil Mag, and the Chem News.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: Henry E Armstrong; Wm Odling; Hugo Muller; F R Japp; W de W Abney; T E Thorpe; W H Perkin; W J Russell; Herbert McLeod; J H Gilbert; H B Dixon; R B Clifton; William Ramsay; Charles E Groves
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Pickering, Percival Spencer Umfreville: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7012Pickering; Percival Spencer Umfreville (1858 - 1920)1858 - 1920
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