Royal Society of Chemistry

Nathan Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): RSC NATHAN

Held at: Royal Society of Chemistry

Title: Nathan Collection

Date(s): 1598-1920

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 975 items.

Name of creator(s): Nathan | Frederick Lewis | 1861-1933

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Colonel Frederick Nathan joined the Royal Artillery in 1879 and in 1886 took up an appointment at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Colonel Nathan worked in the explosives industry.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Books, pamphlets and folio-size posters on explosives and firearms dating from 1598 to 1920. Many of the pamphlets in the collection relate to the manufacture and use of gunpowder.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English and Latin.

System of arrangement:

Organised by Accession Number.

Conditions governing access:

Open access by prior arrangement.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Items not to be copied or scanned.

Finding aids:

Library catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed to the Chemical Society by Colonel Nathan.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2011.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Guns | Firearms | Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
War | International conflicts
Dangerous materials

Personal names

Corporate names

Places