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Authorised form of nameReade; Joseph Bancroft (1801 - 1870)
Dates1801 - 1870
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLeeds, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth05 April 1801
Place of deathBishopsbourne, near Canterbury, Kent
Date of death12 December 1870
ActivityEducation:
MA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/02/1838
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Citation slightly smudged
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/3371562
CodeNA2965
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/003765Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
IM/003767Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
RR/1/194Referee's report by John Forbes Royle, on a paper 'An inquiry into a new theory of earthy bases of vegetable tissues' by Joseph Bancroft Reade[c.1838]
EC/1838/11Reade, Joseph Bancroft: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003762Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
IM/003764Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
IM/003763Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
IM/003766Reade, Joseph Bancroftnd
RR/1/192Referee's report by George Dollond, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade[1840]
IM/000587Group lithograph of Royal Microscopical Society Presidentsnd
AP/38/18/7Unpublished letter, regarding 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' from William Gravatt to [Joseph Bancroft] Reade6 March 1856
MC/3Volume 3 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1839-1843
MC/3/15Letter from Joseph Bancroft Reade, Peckham, to the Royal Society28 February 1839
MM/10/165Minutes of the Microscope Committeec.1843
RR/1/193Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by Joseph Bancroft Reade23 December 1836
MC/9/34Letter from J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade, Bishopsbourne Rectory, Canterbury, to Dr [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]17 February 1870
MC/9/42Letter from J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade, Bishopsbourne Rectory, Canterbury, to the Royal Society28 February 1870
RR/1/191Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by Joseph Bancroft Reade25 February 1840
AP/21/19Unpublished paper, 'An inquiry into a new theory of earthy bases of vegetable tissues' by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade27 February 1838
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
AP/23/17Unpublished paper, 'Experiments on the chemical constitution of several bodies which undergo the vinous fermentation and on certain results of that chemical action' by Robert Rigg1839
AP/23/17/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Experiments on the chemical constitution of several bodies which undergo the vinous fermentation and on certain results of that chemical action' by Robert Rigg1839
AP/23/15Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry into the formation of alkaline and earthy bodies with reference to their presence in plants, the influence of carbonic acid in their generation, and the equilibrium of this gas in the atmosphere' by Robert RiggJanuary 1839
AP/23/16Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry into the influence of nitrogen in promoting vegetable decomposition, and the connexion of this process with the growth of plants' by Robert RiggMarch 1839
AP/20/14/3Unpublished diagram, ray of light through condensing lenses by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade9 December 1836
AP/38/18Unpublished paper, 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
AP/23/39Unpublished paper, 'On the construction and use of single achromatic eye-pieces, and their superiority to the double eye-piece of Huyghens' by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade12 November 1839
AP/20/14/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade9 December 1836
AP/20/14Unpublished paper, 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade9 December 1836
AP/20/14/2Unpublished diagram, microscope by J B [Joseph Bancroft] Reade9 December 1836
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