Paper, 'New experiments on the question of the fixation of free nitrogen. (Preliminary notice.)' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert

Description

The authors write: 'In a paper presented to the Royal Society in 1887—1888, and printed in vol. 180 of the ‘Philosophical Transactions’, we discussed the history and the present position of the question of the sources of the nitrogen of vegetation. We referred to the conclusions arrived at about thirty years ago from the results of Boussiugault and from those obtained at Rothamsted, up to that time. We gave the results of some experiments which had been recently made at Rothamsted in connexion with the subject, and review and the evidence and conclusions of others published within the last few years.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Chemistry

Received and read 9 January 1890.

A version of this paper was published in volume 47 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'New experiments on the question of the fixation of free nitrogen. (Preliminary notice.)'.

Reference number

PP/15/9

Earliest possible date

1889-1890

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

36 pages

Format

Manuscript