[Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist ] Autograph Letter Signed "William Crookes", chemist and physicist, to "[William] Pengelly", geologist about reporting on the latter's course on the Devonian Age".

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (1832 1919), chemist and physicist

Published by Printed headed with marginal printed notes on "The Chemical News" The Chemical News address added in MS. 20 Mornington Road N.W. London 5 April, 1861

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Two pages, 18vo, battered with closed tears and some grubbiness, but text clear and complete, as follows: "The authorities of the Royal Institution having kindly permitted me to report their lectures in full in the 'Chemical News'. I write to ask if you will allow me to send a reporter to the course which you are about to deliver 'On the Devonian Age of the World'. | Should you be kind enough to grant me this favour I shall be happy to submit the proofs to you for correction & will myself undertake to correct them from the unavoidable errors of reporting ." Note: Crookes founded "The Chemical News" in 1859. Pengelly's work on Kents Cavern (Devonian limestone) may well have figured in this course.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist ] Autograph Letter Signed "William Crookes", chemist and physicist, to "[William] Pengelly", geologist about reporting on the latter's course on the Devonian Age".
• Publisher: Printed headed with marginal printed notes on "The Chemical News" The Chemical News address added in MS. 20 Mornington Road N.W. London 5 April
• Publication Date: 1861