Paper, 'On a pure fermentation of mannite [mannitol] and glycerin' by Percy Faraday Frankland and Joseph J Fox

Description

The authors write: 'Although the fermentative action of micro-organisms has from time to time attracted the attention of numerous investigators, both chemical and biological, still in by far the majority of cases there has been absolutely no guarantee that the chemical changes observed were the result of the activity of a pure growth of one organism and not of a more or less complex mixture of organisms. Indeed, it is only within recent years that the most familiar of all fermentations—the alcoholic—has been induced with growths of yeast definitely ascertained to be of absolute purity.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes four figures of the fermentation process.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 17 June 1889. Read 20 June 1889. Communicated by Thomas Edward Thorpe.

A version of this paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a pure fermentation of mannite and glycerin'.

Reference number

PP/14/28

Earliest possible date

1889

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

20 pages

Format

Manuscript
Drawing