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  • Patients being tended and treated by nurses and physicians on a hospital ward. Line engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • Betr.: Calcium glyc. phosporic.
  • Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.
  • Chemistry: a chemical laboratory with many workers (above), symbols of elements arranged in a proto-periodic table (?) (below). Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • D.O.M.A. Alchymia Andreae Libavii, recognita, emendata, et aucta, tum dogmatibus et experimentis nonnullis; tum commentario medico physico-chymico: qui exornatus est variis instrumentorum chymicorum picturis; partim aliunde translatis, partim planè novis ... : praemissa defensione artis opposita censurae Parisianae.
  • Chemistry: various vessels, including cracking towers. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.
  • Chemistry: distilling apparatus. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • Chemistry: several disembodied hands experimenting with liquids, and a man looking on. Engraving, 17--.
  • Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.
  • Surrey Institution, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London: the interior of the rotunda, F. Accum lecturing. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1809, after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin.
  • Anniversary dinner : The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool : Thursday April 13th 1961 at 7.30 for 8 p.m. : the president Sir Alexander Todd, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. in the chair / the Chemical Society.
  • A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.
  • Religio chemici : Essays / by George Wilson.
  • Chemistry: burning glasses, and various vessels for distillation. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Election of officers and council, 1973 : ...ballot paper / Royal Institute of Chemistry.
  • Annual general meeting, 29 March, 1973 / The Royal Institute of Chemistry.
  • A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • Anniversary dinner : The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool : Thursday April 13th 1961 at 7.30 for 8 p.m. : the president Sir Alexander Todd, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. in the chair / the Chemical Society.
  • Henri Sainte-Claire Deville demonstrating an experiment in the inorganic chemistry laboratory at the École Normal Supérieure, Paris, 1878. Reproduction after a painting by L. l'Hermitte.
  • Chemistry: various implements. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Achema VII : Feugblatt Nr. 1 / Fr. Hildebrandt.
  • Chemistry: various blowpipes. Engraving by J. Moffat after J. Farey.
  • A large chemical laboratory filled with apparatus and types of glass vessel. Engraving, 1778.
  • A man made up out of chemical apparatus, symbols, and chemicals. Coloured lithograph.
  • A chemical laboratory with four chemists; one looks into a furnace. Engraving.
  • The chemical laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey: : the distilling room. Etching attributed to W.H. Toms after H. Gravelot.
  • Chemistry: a large vessel for distillation, on a furnace. Woodcut after M. Augusti.