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Translation by Science Museum Library, So. Kensington, London, S.W.7. 

All the non-archival sources cited here, except the private communications and the online document, are available at the Science Museum Library. The unpublished Annual Reports of the Science Museum and much of the published Science Museum material are kept in the semi-rare book room. In addition to these sources, I also had access to the chemistry curator s collection of gallery photographs and a set of labels with floor plans for the 1977 Gallery. 

Green, J.H.S. (1993). What is philosophy of chemistry In E. Scerri (Ed.), The Philosophy of Chemistry. Report of the meeting held at the Science Museum Library. London Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. 

The main national libraries in Great Britain are the Science Museum Library, the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, and the Patent Office Library. The British Museum Library while being primarily a reference library for the humanities also has a considerable amount of scientific material. In the United... 

The Science Museum Library in South Kensington has a long history but its loan service is of more recent date. Its collection of material on the history of science and technology is of great importance. Total holdings of periodicals number about 25,000 of which over 10,000 are current. The library is an official depository for British patent specifications and atomic energy reports. Its stock, which approaches half a million volumes, is... 

The following other activities are part of the Franklin Institute Library, Science Museum, Planetarium, Journal, Medal Awards, Barcol Research Foundation and Institute Education... 

Figure 6.1. Indicator Diagram Apparatus. [Reproduced with permission from Science Museum, London, Science Society Picture Library]...

Hills, Watt. Volume 3, pp. 234-7,241 H. W. Dickinson, The Garret Workshop of James Watt) Science Museum. Technical Pamphlet No. 1 (HMSO, 1929) J. Gibson-Watt, James Watt and the Doldowlod Estate. Extracts from the Correspondence and Notes of James Watt and James Watt Jr, 1798-1819) Typescript, Archives, Birmingham Central Library. 

Chapter 21 p. 978, Patrice Loiez/CERN/Science Photo Library/ Photo Researchers, Inc. p. 983, Courtesy, CERN p. 985, Jeff Hester Arizona State University and NASA. Image produced by AURA/STSci p. 987, US Department of Energy/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc. p. 988, James A. Sugar/Corbis p. 991, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania Photo Archives p. 993 (both), SlU/Visuals Unlimited p. 1000, Augus Fotoarchiv/Peter Arnold, Inc. p. 1001, Mike Mazzaschi/Stock Boston p. 1003, Courtesy, Fermilab Visual Media p. 1005, AP Photo/Lennox McLendon. 

The Centre organises science seminars, film video shows, popular lectures, exhibitions, sky-gazing through a telescope, etc. The Centre has a library, laboratories, science museum, workshop, science playground, mass media and A.V. facilities... 

Science Museum/Science Society Picture Library Jons Jacob Berzelius 9... 

Other useful lists of accessions are issued by the libraries of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Risley and Harwell, and by the Science Museum in London. 

Figure 10.18 Adrienne Hart-Davis/Science Photo Library Figure 10.20 Natural History Museum Figure 10.21 Dr Jeremy Burgess/Science Photo Library ...

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. 

For their equally gracious aid in my research on the London-Manchester School, I express appreciation to Jennifer Seddon Curtis, Joe Marsh, and Rajkumari Williamson at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and to Stella Butler of the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. I am grateful to Mrs. C. J. Anderson at the Library of University College, London to Jeanne Pingree and Mrs. M. Felton at the Archives of... 

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. 

This study was funded in part by a grant from the National Museum Act and by The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. A recent grant from the National Science Foundation will support additional work that will be under the guidance of the conservation laboratories of The Library of Congress, the National Archives, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Winterthur Museum. 

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