[James Dewar]

MS, with printed & MS inserts Laboratory notebook, 7¼" x 9", soft black cover. Includes

pp.1-2 miscellaneous jottings.

pp.3-5 sulphides of ethylene: thio-glycol ether.

pp.6-10 blank

pp.11 thio-glycol

pp.12-13 Facts on bases. Notes on lepidine, iridoline, chinoline, lutidine, pyrrol etc.; rings.

p.14 Bulletin of the Societe Chimique, Paris, July 1878: report of paper by Butlerov and Wischnegradsky on quinine and cinchonine.

p.15 notes on quinine; extract from paper by Hofmann which refers to Williams' work on cinchonine.

pp.16-17 quinine, cinchonine etc. Two loose pages inserted.

pp.18 note on isinglass and fibrin.

pp.19 vinyl compunds: sulphide of Vinyl, C2H3S.

pp.20-24 rough calculations

pp.25-27 mercaptan of vinyl, C4H3S.HS; with rough calculations.

pp.28 rough jottings

pp.29-31 26 Dec. 1864: action of HO2 and BaO2 on nitroprusside of sodium.

pp.32-33 C.acetate of vinyl; sugar investigations.

pp.34-35 sugar investigations.

p.36 miscellaneous calculations.

p.37 extract from paper by Dumas, 1868, on affinity - heat; rough notes.

pp.38-41 rough miscellaneous jottings and calculations.

p.42 SO3HCl reaction

p.43 sugar investigations

p.44 rough calculations

p.45 alloys

pp.46-47 decomposition experiments; extracts from literature.

pp.48-49 rate of CO2 evolution by man; radiation

p.50 decomposition; radiation

pp.51-53 light intensity

p.54 luminous lines in vapour of metals; distribution of heat in spectrum.

p.55 temperature & wavelength; radiation - alloys.

pp.56-57 luminous intensities. With 2 tracings of curves inserted.

pp.58-59 notes from Plateau and others concerning effect of coloured rays on the retina - for R.I. lecture.

pp.60-61 thermo-electric properties of hydrogenium; references to sources of certain research topics. With inserted page of calculations and copy of the Report of the British Association Committee, 1873, appointed for the purposed of determinating high temperatures by means of the refrangibility of the light evolved by fluid or solid substances (printed).

pp.62-3 relative space occupied by different coloured rays in the normal spectrum; luminous intensity.

pp.64 experiments on radiation at different temperatures.

p.65 temperature of electric are.

pp.68-69 radiation. With inserted, pp.66-7: 1846 Bakerian Lecture "On certain phenomena of Voltaic ignition and the decomposition of water into its constituent gases by heat", 6pp, MS, and 2pp notes; pp.68-9, 3pp calculations.

p.70-71 blank. Inserted: Notes of a course of seven lectures on electricity, at R.I. by Tyndall, 1875 (printed), and 2pp notes and calculations on radiation.

pp.72-104 blank

pp.105-7 rough calculations

pp.108-9 B picolinic acid

pp.110-11 organic analysis of carbopicolinic acid

p.111 picolinic acid

p.112 31 July 1868: calculations

pp.113-5 analyses and calculations - picolinic acid

pp.116-7 picolinic acid experiments and analyses.

p.118 analysis of Ba salt made from acid got from silver salt

p.119 volumetric analysis of Na salt.

pp.120-21 analysis of picolinic NH3 salt

pp.122-3 examination of bases left after action of Pen.Plan on picoline.

p.124 analysis of P2 salt of base got by distilling portion of picolinic below 135°C.

pp.125-6 calculations

p.127-30 cystine silver salt

pp.131-2 extracts from literature concerning sulphides of mono-atomic, bi-atomic and tri-atomic radicals.

pp.133-5 rough calculations

p.136 blank

p.137 conductivity

p.138 notes on paper by Bechamp, 1868, on exposure of C4H4O to air.

pp.139-43 rough calculations and notes on literature.

Inserted inside front cover: notes on content of volume, 1924.