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Pepys, William Hasledine (1775-1856)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 785

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Pepys, William Hasledine (1775-1856)

Date(s): nd

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Pepys | William Hasledine | 1775-1856 | man of science

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1775; Profession: Scientific instrument maker; Career: succeeded to his father's business, and extended it to scientific instrument making; invented apparatus, including a Eudiometer, and the Pepys Water gas holder; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1808; died, 1856.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Presentation papers on William Haseldine Pepys from various authors, with a letter from Michael Faraday in Volume 1.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Personal names
Faraday | Michael | 1791-1867 | chemist and natural philosopher
Pepys | William Hasledine | 1775-1856 | man of science

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