- Smith , Robert Angus . 1884 . The life and works of Thomas Graham London
- Graham , Thomas . 1841 . Outlines of botany for the use of families and schools; delivered by the author in a course of six elementary lectures at the Royal Polytechnic Institution London This work is cited hereafter as ‘Outlines’.
- Armytage , W.H.G. 1970 . A social history of engineering , 3rd ed. 147 – 147 . London
- 1961 . British Museum catalogue of printed books Vol. 90 , 327 – 327 . London lists two copies: 1252.f.7., 1252.f.28. It is a small volume of i-iv+3-88 pages, with three plates. Neither B.M. copy is autographed.
- Lindley , John . 1893 . D.N.B. Vol. 33 , 277 – 279 . London F.R.S. (1799–1865), Professor of Botany, University College London from 1828–1860; see
- 1844 . The Royal Polytechnic Institution for the advancement of the arts and practical science; especially in connection with agriculture, mining, machinery, manufactures and other branches of industry, Catalogue for 1844 London Ryan's lectures on chemistry are detailed on p. 12 and the medical influence can be felt by the words: ‘Those pupils who are designed for the Medical Profession will have every facility of becoming aquainted with Medical Chemistry; and a cabinet of articles employed in Medicine will be provided for their use’.
- Comments from the press of the time: ‘We cordially recommend the work as one eminently deserving the patronage of the public and as one of the most complete and well-constructed publications which has issued from the press’ (Age); ‘We think they are admirably designed for the purpose, and hope to find other lecturers at this splendid Institution following the example which Mr. Graham has so admirably set them’ (Weekly chronicle). See The Royal Polytechnic Institution for the advancement of the arts and practical science; especially in connection with agriculture, mining, machinery, manufactures and other branches of industry, Catalogue for 1844 London 1844
- Daniell , J.F. 1888 . D.N.B. Vol. 14 , 33 – 33 . London F.R.S. (1790–1845); see circumstances regarding his appointment are covered in V. Gold, F.R.S., ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the appointment of J. F. Daniell, F.R.S. as Professor of Chemistry at King's College, London’, Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, 28 (1973), 25–29.
- Mr. Erasmus Wilson, lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the Middlesex Hospital from 1840; later Sir (William James) Erasmus Wilson (1809–1884); see D.N.B. London 1900 62 148 150
- Outlines 8 – 8 . lecture I
- This was erected to cater more conveniently for the medical students of University College; see Berkeley Comyns The Middlesex hospital of today and yesterday, a bird's-eye view London 1911
- Examples are Everitt T. Bence Jones H. Fownes G. Makins G.H. Ronalds Edmund Taylor T. Heisch C.
- F. J. Furnivall was a student of German, Chemistry, Mathematics, Greek, History and Natural Philosophy at University College from 1841 to 1842. He took mathematics at Cambridge, graduating a junior optime B.A. in 1847, M.A. 1850. For more detail see Venn J.A. Alumni Cantabridgiensis 1752–1900 2 2 592 592 and the entry on F. J. Furnivall in D.N.B., suppl. 1 (1912, London), 61–66.
- Munro , J. and others . 1911 . F. J. Furnivall , Oxford University Press . x, extract from Furnivall's diary, Friday, 13 May 1842. The original diaries have not been traced.
- Outlines 75 – 88 . Lecture VI
- Outlines 12 – 12 . Lecture I
- Outlines 61 – 61 . Lecture V
- Outlines 62 – 62 .
- Outlines 67 – 67 .
- Outlines 72 – 72 .
- Thomas Graham is recorded as having successfully passed the Intermediate Medical Examination in the University of London general register 1890 (1)
- Thomas Graham proceeded M.R.C.S.(Lond.) on 14 May 1841, and was afterwards a Naval Surgeon in H.M.S. Dublin in the South American Station; see London medical directory 1845
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