Box 10
Contains 24 Results:
Report on a memoir submitted by Faujas de St. Fond to the Académie des sciences on ancient volcanos in the Vivarais and Montelimar, March 5, 1777
Physical Description: 6 leaves; 25 cm; holograph signed.Summary: Entitled: "Rapport du memoire de Mr de faujas." Antoine Baumé was also a member of the reporting committee.
Notes on glass lenses, clays, alkalis, the calcination of metals, and the classification of plants, taken from various memoirs written in the 1770s, 1770s
Physical Description: 8 leaves; 21 cm; holograph.Summary: Entitled: "Memoires academiques 177.."
Manuscript on the relation between the price of grain and the wages for manual labor, 1770s?
Physical Description: 16 pages; 32 cm; holograph.Summary: Untitled manuscript with corrections. Pencilled note in the left margin of page [1] attributes the manuscript to Fougeroux de Bondaroy and claims that it comes from the archives of Duhamel du Monceau.
Manuscript on the grain trade from Beaune and surrounding areas to Normandy and Brittany, 1770s?
Physical Description: 8 pages; 32 cm; holograph.Summary: Untitled manuscript with corrections. Written on the right side of each page, evidently leaving room for later additions or corrections.
Report on Pietch's work on saltpeter and on Lavoisier's study of air in nitric acid published in his Opuscules physiques et chimques, Undated
Physical Description: 10 leaves; 20 cm; holograph.Summary: Entitled: "Sur le Salpêtre."
Report of Lavoisier's study of aerial acid published in his Opuscules physiques et chimiques, Undated
Physical Description: 8 leaves; 24 cm; holograph.Summary: Entitled: "Sur lacide aerien -- Opuscules Physiques et Chymiques Par Mr Lavoisier."
Notes on acids and saltpeter, Undated
Physical Description: 4 items (1, 1, 2, 2 leaves) ; 19 cm; holographs.Summary: Lavoisier, Cornet (?), and Baumé are mentioned.
Report on Bergman's study of aerial acid published in 1776 in the Journal de physique, 1776
Physical Description: 6 leaves; 24 cm; holograph.Summary: Page [1] contains unrelated notes.
Report of Jean E. Guettard's Mémoires sur les différentes parties des sciences et arts, Undated
Physical Description: 14 leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm; holograph.Summary: Text partially in Latin.
Report summarizing volumes 4 and 5 of Guettard's Mémoires des différentes parties des sciences et arts, 1783
Physical Description: 4 leaves; 26 cm; holograph.Summary: Entitled: "Extrait des volumes quatre et cinq des memoires sure les sciences et les arts." Note on p. [1] in Fougeroux de Bondaroy's hand: "Pour le Rapport fait a lacademie le … juillet 1783. Comissaires Mss fougeroux et Lavoisier.