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>From: Prakash Kumar <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:09:34 +0000
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>It would be a great help to my research, if you could put the
following letter
>on your ARCHIVES-NRA listserve.
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>Hello,
>
>After sustained effrots to locate the whereabouts of a few British
scientists
>andtheir experiments, I am turning to the archival community in
Britain, hoping
>to get further leads.
>
>I am a doctoral candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
working on
>history of dye chemistry in the context of British India. I am
examining the
>laboratory experiments conducted to improve the manufacture of natural
indigo
>dye(extracted from plants) in British India and Britain between 1890
and 1930.
>Amongst others, Christopher Rawson (a chemist), E A Hancock (a
chemist), Cyril
>Bergtheil (a bacteriologist), and Eugene Schrottky (a chemist)
conducted
>experiments in India. Another one, William Popplewell Bloxam (a
>chemist),experimented in India, and later at the University of Leeds,
England.
>
>I have access to the scientific reports written by these
>scientists as well as dense references to them in the government
documents,
>preserved in the India archives.
>
>On two of them, W P Bloxam and Eugene Schrottky, I lack information
about their
>academic training, professional affiliations etc. I would be delighted
if
>anyone could provide clues toward getting those informations.
>
>About Rawson, I know that after leaving India he accepted employment
with the
>BASF, and then in 1912 joined the British Cotton & wool dyers'
Association.
>I don't know about the kind of professional work he did between those
dates.
>This informtion I could get from the biographical database maintained
by the
>Open University on web.
>
>Finally, apart from Cyril Bergtheil, I do not have access to the
private papers
>left by the other scientists. I would appreciate if someone could
guide me to
>them, in case they exist!
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>
>Prakash Kumar
>School of History, Technology, and Society
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
>Ph: 404 894 6844 (O)
> 404 607 0773 (H)
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