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Paper, 'Observations and experiments on Dr James' powder' by Richard Chenevix

Reference number: L&P/11/165

Date: 1801

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations and experiments upon Dr. James's powder; with a method of preparing, in the humid way, a similar substance'

Read 4 June 1801

Reference number
L&P/11/165
Earliest possible date
1801
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
34 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Richard Chenevix

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Richard Chenevix, Paper, 'Observations and experiments on Dr James' powder' by Richard Chenevix, 1801, L&P/11/165, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_165/paper-observations-and-experiments-on-dr-james-powder-by-richard-chenevix, accessed on 14 November 2025

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