| RefNo | AP/54/6 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the relative power of thirty-four substances to prevent the development of protoplasmic and fungus life' by F [Frederick] Crace Calvert |
| Date | 1872 |
| Description | Calvert describes a series of experiments he has underaken regarding the development of protoplasmic and fungal life. To carry out this series of experiments, small test tubes were thoroughly cleansed, and heated to dull redness. Into each was placed 26 grams of a solution of albumen containing one part of white of egg to four parts of pure distilled water. To this was added one thousandth of a gram of each of the substances the action of which Calvert desired to study.
Annotations in ink throughout. Includes one page of figures of protoplasmic and fungus life.
Subject: Biology / Chemistry
Received 22 February 1872. Read 29 February 1872.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 20 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the relative power of various substances in preventing putrefaction and the development of protoplasmic and fungus-life'. |
| Extent | 26p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1871.0044 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7691 | Calvert; Frederick Crace (1819 - 1873) | 1819 - 1873 |