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Josten, Conrad Hermann. Elias Ashmole F.R.S. (1617-1692). Notes Rees Royal Soc 15 (Jul 1960) 221-230, 1960 reprint, Oxford Museum of the History of Science, 1978. 

See R. McKenzie, Hard Lessons Public Sculpture and the Education System in Nineteenth-Century Glasgow , in G. Coutts and T. Jokela (eds), Art, Community and Environment. Educational Perspectives (Bristol Intellect Books, 2008), pp. 241-62, on p. 244. Greenshields statue is now in the foyer of University of Strathclyde s Royal College building. For a picture of the Oxford Museum Watt statue and of the company it keeps see www.oum.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/statues.pdf, and on its history, MacLeod, Heroes of Invention, pp. 349, 353. 

Figure 4.2 Ground floor of the Chemistry Laboratories in 1893, adapted from the plan in the edition of that year of H.W. Acland and J. Ruskin, The Oxford Museum. The Abbot s Kitchen is the square building in the centre and the laboratories to the east of it are the additions of 1877-79. The dashed lines in the south-west corner mark the site of the Radcliffe [Science] Library, built in 1901-02. The large open yard between the laboratories and the main part of the Museum was later filled with a lecture theatre.

M. L. H. Green, M. J. Rosseinsky, and E. S. C. Tsang, 2nd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Science and Technology of the Fullerenes, Keble College and University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, Abstracts, Elsevier Science, Oxford, 1996, p. 186. 

Hunter, Michael Cyril William. Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692 the founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his world a tercentenary exhibition, 27 April to 31 July 1983 / compiled by Michael Hunter in conjunction with Kenneth Garlick and N. J. Mayhew Bodleian exhibition entries by Albinia De la Mare. Oxford Ashmolean Museum, 1983. xi, 92p. ISBN 0907849008... 

Wright, D. Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford archaeologist, astrologer, historian, Rosicrucian, and freemason. The Freemason, 1924. 35p. 

Taylor (1897-1956) was the founding editor of "Ambix". His papers have recently been deposited at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford... 

Aitken, M. J. (1998), An Introduction to Optical Dating The Dating of Quaternary Sediments by the Use of Photon-Stimulated Luminescence, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK. Aitken, M. J. (1997), Luminescence dating, in Taylor, R. E. and M. J. Aitken (eds.), Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science Series, Vol. 2, Plenum, New York. 

Coghlan, H. H. (1951), Notes on the Prehistoric Metallurgy of Copper and Bronze in the Old World, Pitt Rivers Museum, Univ. Oxford, Oxford, UK. 

Walker, S. and K. Matthews (1988), Recent work in stable isotope analysis of white marble at the British Museum, in Fant, J. C. (ed.), Ancient Marble Quarrying and Trade, B.A.R., International Series, Vol. 453, Oxford, UK, pp. 117-125. 

J.S. Mills, R. White, The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 1994. 

The case of Oetzi (or the Iceman), the frozen mummy found in 1991 on the Alps on the border between Austria and Italy and now kept at the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano (Italy), is also well known. AMS radiocarbon measurements from the laboratories of Zurich[78] and Oxford[79] on tissue and bone samples from the Iceman dated him to 4550 19 years BP. When calibrated, this radiocarbon age corresponds to three probable calendar time intervals between 3350 BC and 3100 BC. Consistent measurements were obtained by dating some of his equipment and also botanic remains from the discovery site. [80] In this context, it is important to note that dating of Oetzi represents a good example of the relevance of the behaviour of the calibration curve in the final precision of a radiocarbon measurement. Actually, in this case, despite a very high precision of the radiocarbon age ( 19 years), the special trend in the calibration curve around the dated period, i.e. in particular the so-called wiggles, prevents a more exact and unambiguous absolute age determination. 

I also wish to thank the Bodleian Library at Oxford University for permission to do research in the Frederick Soddy Papers in their Modem Manuscripts collections, and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, for permission to work with Soddy s lecture notes and papers in their archives. I thank University College London, Special Collections, for permission to do research in the Sir William Ramsay Papers. I also thank the special collections librarians at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for access to H. G. Wells s papers, and the University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for access to Edith Sitwell s papers. Frances Soar of the Geographical Association, the administrators of the Frederick Soddy Tmst, and Maxwell Wright and Gwen Huntley of Bunkers Solicitors generously helped me in my efforts to track down an estate for Frederick Soddy s unpublished writings. And I wish to thank Mark Smithells and the Smithells family in New Zealand for permission to quote from Arthur Smithells s unpublished manuscript in the Frederick Soddy Papers. 

Undated letter from C. K. Ingold to Frederick Soddy, in Ms. Eng. misc. b.179 (item 98) Soddy Papers, Bod.Oxford. Soddy s paper is "A New Theory of Aromatic Character," read before the Oxford University Chemical Club at the Museum, 26 October 1899. 

Archivists and librarians have helped me in many ways, especially in the Australian National University the Australian National Library the Biblio-theque nationale de France the Bibliotheque de L Arsenal the Archives Nationales the British Library the British Museum the Bodleian Library, Oxford the Ashmolean Library, Oxford Torre Abbey, Torquay the Huntington Library, California the Archivio de Pesaro the Staat Archivs in Basel and the Bibliotheque de la ville de Strasbourg. 

Embrey, P. G., and J. P. Fuller (1980). A Manual of New Mineral Names 1892-1978. British Museum (Natural History). Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

Michael Hunter, Elias Ashmole, 161J—1692 The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his World (Oxford, 1983), reprinted in Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth Century Britain (Wbodbridge, 1995), 21—44 Josten, Ashmole, i. 210 iii. 1208 iv. 1454—5,1809. Most of these MSS are now in the Ashmole collection in the Bodleian, though it is unclear why some of Ashmoles papers, particularly those containing magical material, are now in the Sloane Collection in the British Library. 

He similarly annotated Forman s essays on the Heavens , paraphrased them, and checked Forman s figures against other sources, at one point finding Forman s calculations lacking in comparison with those included in Edward Sherbourne s tables in his edition of The Sphere of M. Manilius (1675). Ashmole died in 1692, having ensured that Forman s papers were preserved with the rest of his collection of manuscripts, books, and rarities in the newly founded Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 

Hunter, Michael, Elias Ashmole, i6ij—i6gz The Founder of the Ashmolean Museum and his World (Oxford, 1983), reprinted in Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (Woodbridge, 1995), 21—44. 

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