Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture, an account of some new analytical research on the nature of certain bodies, particularly the alkalies, phosphorus, sulphur, carbonaceous matter and the acids hitherto undecompounded with some general observations on chemical theory' by Humphry Davy
Reference number: PT/3/3
Date: 1808
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Small portions of the manuscript are also located at PT/2/24.
Subject: Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. An account of some new analytical researches on the nature of certain bodies, particularly the alkalies, phosphorus, sulphur, carbonaceous matter, and the acids hitherto undecompounded; with some general observations on chemical theory'.
Read 15 December 1808.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 1, 1832.
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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'The Bakerian Lecture, an account of some new analytical research on the nature of certain bodies, particularly the alkalies, phosphorus, sulphur, carbonaceous matter and the acids hitherto undecompounded with some general observations on chemical theory' by Humphry Davy, 1808, PT/3/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_3/paper-the-bakerian-lecture-an-account-of-some-new-analytical-research-on-the-nature-of-certain-bodies-particularly-the-alkalies-phosphorus-sulphur-carbonaceous-matter-and-the-acids-hitherto-undecompounded-with-some-general-observations-on-chemical-theory-by-humphry-davy, accessed on 16 April 2026
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