CLIFTON (Robert Bellamy, 1836-1921, first Head of the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 1865-1915)

Collection of visiting cards, a few signed, given him by eminent or up and coming scientists from the Continent (11), England (2), the U.S.A. (1) and Japan (1), also a ticket signed by Clifton to admit Mrs Clifton to his lectures at the Royal Manchester Institution (1), together 16 cards, with checklist, [at Oxford], circa 1880 -

The scientists include light physicist Alfred Cornu, mathematician Luigi Cremona, pioneer star photographer Warren De la Rue, Daniel C. Gilman, first President of Johns Hopkins, industrial chemist A.W. Hofmann (with a signed note offering a copy of a report), physicists Arthur König and Michel Krouchkoll, egyptologist Richard Lepsius, (Sir) Donald MacAlister introducing Dr Han-ichi Muraoka, and the latter's own card staying at the Randolph, and physicists Henri Pellat and G.H. Quincke.
CHECKLIST
1. Alfred Cornu, 1841-1902, Professor at the École Polytechnique, Paris, greatly improved Fizeau's determination of the speed of light.
2. Prof. Luigi Cremona, 1830-1903, Italian patriot and geometrician, S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, (which the University's School of Engineering adjoins).
3. Warren De La Rue, 1815-1889, F.R.S., pioneer in astronomical photography, card as Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
4. Daniel C. Gilman, 1831-1908, 1st President, 1875, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Gilman spent a year in Europe and America seeking teachers with personality and freedom of thought for the new university.
5. Dr. August Wilhelm [von] Hofmann, 1818-1892, Berlin. Bearing Autograph Note Signed saying "Mr Gibbs of ... East Regents Park is requested to deliver to the bearer ... a copy of the Report on Chemical Laboratories of the Universities of Bonn and Berlin ...".
In 1846, Hofmann, a young Privatdozent at Bonn, was appointed the first director of the Royal School of Chemistry in London, returning to Bonn in 1864, and to Berlin University in 1865, where he pioneered work in organic chemistry, especially on aniline.
6. Dr. Giuseppe Jung, 1845-1926, Italian mathematician, pupil of Luigi Cremona (no. 3 above), Professor at the Royal Technical Institute, Milan, lectured there on projective geometry and graphical statics.
7. Dr. Arthur König, 1856-1901, Privatdozent at Berlin University, Assistant [to Helmholtz] at the Institute of Physics, author of fundamental work on the connection of rods and cones with sensations of colour.
8. Michel Krouchkoll, Licencié ès-Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques, attaché au laboratoire de Recherches Physiques de la Sorbonne, Paris. Translator of the 3rd edition of P.G. Tait's 'Lectures on some Recent Advances in Physical Science', (1st Edition 1876), a series of popular lectures often recommended for university students.
9. Dr (later Sir) Donald MacAlister, 1854-1934, St. John's College, Cambridge. President of the General Medical Council, 1904-1931, Principal of Glasgow University 1907-1929, from 1924 1st Bt. Inscribed "To introduce Dr. Muraoka ...".
10. Dr. Han-ichi Muraoka, 1853-1929, Professor of Physics in the Imperial Higher Middle School, Tokyo. The first Doctor of Science in Japan, gained at Strassburg, where he measured the electrical resistance of different presentations of carbon. An authority on Japanese music and scales.
11. Henri Pellat, 1850-1909, Docteur ès-Sciences, Professeur de Physique au Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris. Inscribed in French "with his thanks". Pellat wrote text books on physics, especially electricity and magnetism. In 1885 he moved to the Sorbonne, where his research included the effect of magnetic fields on cathode rays.
12. Dr. Georg Quincke, 1834-1924, Professor of Physics at Heidelberg, 1875-1907, Hon. D.C.L. (Oxford), Hon. F.R.S. Did classical work on all forms of capillary phenomena, and studied the effect of electric fields on the constants of different forms of matter.
13. Dr. Pieter Hendrik Schoute, 1846-1923, Professor of Geometry in the University of Groningen, 1881-1913. He studied curved surfaces and the 3-dimensional sections of figures in four dimensions.
14. Docteur S.[Zygmunt Florenty] de Wroblewski, 1845-1881, Polish Physicist.. Made many discoveries on the liquefaction of gases under pressure or cold. In 1882 he discovered that carbon dioxide can be hydrated, which has since raised the question whether this happens on Mars.
15. Royal Manchester Institution, Lecturer's Ticket. Inscribed "Admit Mrs. R.B. Clifton R.B. Clifton".

Item Date:  1885

Stock No:  54107      £225

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