IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1408-1409
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Bucquet, Jean Baptiste (1746-1780)
Date(s): 1777
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Bucquet | Jean Baptiste | 1746-1780 | French physician and chemist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Jean Baptiste Bucquet first studied law, but turned to medicine and chemistry, and began giving private chemical lessons around 1769. In 1776, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at the École de Médicine. He collaborated with Lavoisier in work on gases and their effects on substances. He was a member of the Paris Academie des Sciences.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
'Notes du Cours de chymie de Mr. Bucquet aux Écoles de Médecine en l'année', 1777, on the cover of the first volume a late 18th cent. hand has written below the title: 'Faites par mon malheureux et ingrat enfant qui m'a plongé un poignard dans le sang qui pénétre chaque jour de plus en plus, et qui sans doute aura péri dans la traversée en passant dans les provinces en guerre contre l'Angleterre'. Produced in Paris.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
2 vols. 256 pp. + 32 pp., pp. 79-138 + 72 ll. 8vo. 18 x 11 cm. Unbound. Some parts seem to be wanting, e.g. pp. 33-78 of the second part, and some leaves in this section are possibly in wrong order.
Finding aids:
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1929.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009