The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) and the Bolton Society will hold a joint meeting at the Royal Institution in London on Saturday 9 November 2013. The agenda is below. To register, please go to: http://www.ambix.org/chemistry-and-its-books-nov-2013/
The Bolton Society will be continuing its UK meeting on 11 November in Cambridge and 12 November in Oxford, with a programme of further papers and visits. SHAC members are most welcome to attend. For details, please contact the organiser of these trips, Dr Robert Anderson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Best wishes,
Anna Marie Roos, Ph.D., F.L.S.
Hon. Secretary, The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln
Associate Faculty, University of Oxford
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AGM and Autumn Meeting
Society for History of Chemistry and Alchemy/Bolton Society
‘Chemistry and Its Books’
Papers to be presented at the Royal Institution, London,
Saturday 9 November 2013
Meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, and the Bolton Society
9.00 Registration
9.30 Frank James (Royal Institution) The Royal Institution and its Library
9.55 Ron Brashear (Chemical Heritage Foundation) Collecting Chemical Knowledge
10.20 David Knight (University of Durham) Chemists and Books of Natural Theology
10.40 Questions
10.50 Coffee
11.10 Anke Timmermann (Cambridge University Library/Darwin College, Cambridge) Cataloguing Alchemical Images
11.35 James Voelkel (CHF) Lemery’s Cours de Chymie in its many editions
12.00 Ned Heindel (Lehigh University) Chemistry and the Occult in Pennsylvania Dutch Care Books: the Pferd Artz
12.20 Questions
12.30 Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Annual General Meeting (All are welcome to attend, but only SHAC members may vote)
1.00 View Exhibition
1.30 Lunch
2.15 Gary Patterson (Carnegie Mellon University) HC Bolton and Bibliography of Alchemy
2.40 Peter Laszlo (Emeritus, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) Marginalia, Historians and Historians of Chemistry
3.00 Ronald Smeltzer (Independent, Princeton) Colour Illustration in 19th Century Chemistry Books
3.30 Questions
3.40 Tea
4.00 William Brock (Emeritus, University of Leicester) Liebigiana: Liebig Collectors and Bibliographers
4.25 Elizabeth Clarence (University of Edinburgh) Arthur Conan Doyle and Chemistry of Sherlock Holmes
4.50 Peter Reed (Independent, Leominster) Robert Angus Smith and his Library
5.10 Questions
5.20 Reception
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