- Oswald , A. 1936 . The London Institution . Country Life , 79 : 378 – 383 . fortunately provides a photographic record of the building at the time of its demolition.
- Gutch , J.W.G. 1842 . The Literary and Scientific Register 110 – 115 . London lists some 100 scientific and literary societies in London, but omits the London Institution, which does not feature in this annual register until 1850, by which time the list had shrunk to 36 entries.
- Cutler , J.C. 1978 . The London Institution , University of Leicester . unpublished Ph.D. thesis
- Brande , W.T. 1819 . An Introductory Discourse London A. Scott, The London Institution as it has been; and as it ought to be (London, 1854); R. W. Frazer, Notes on the History of the London Institution (London, 1905); A. Oswald (footnote 1); L. C. Ockendon, ‘The great batteries of the London Institution’, Annals of Science, 2 (1937), 183–4; K. A. Manley, ‘E. B. Nicholson and the London Institution’, Journal of Librarianship, 5 (1973), 52–77; J. N. Hays, ‘Science in the City: the London Institution, 1819–1840’, British Journal for the History of Science, 7 (1974), 146–62.
- Cunningham , P. 1849 . A Handbook for London, Past and Present Vol. 2 , London J. W. Hudson, The History of Adult Education (London, 1851); J. Timbs, Curiosities of London (London, 1868); B. H. Becker, Scientific London (London, 1874); M. Berman, Social Change and Scientific Organisation. The Royal Institution, 1799–1844 (London, 1978).
- Spokes , S. 1927 . Gideon A. Mantell London T. Kelly, George Birkbeck (Liverpool, 1957); J. G. Crowther, Statesmen of science (London, 1965); L. P. Williams, The selected correspondence of Michael Faraday, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1971).
- Fifty four biographies and obituary notices have been located, dating from 1865 to 1973. Often the same errors of fact are seen repeated, especially the duration of Grove's stay at the Institution, which is usually given as 1840-47. See, for example Matheson C. William Robert Grove: Glamorgan physicist and judge Glamorgan Historian 1973 9 96 104 Even the Journal of the London Institution, 1 (1871), 135–6, quotes these dates, and is perhaps the source of the error in later accounts; the article also wrongly describes Grove as Professor of Chemistry.
- Reeve , L.A. 1863-67 . Photographic Portraits and Memoirs of Distinguished Persons in Literature, Science, and Art Vol. III , 30 – 30 . London 5 vols
- Boase , F. 1965 . Modern English Biography Vol. 6 , v – v . London unpaginated; Dictionary of National Biography [hereafter cited as DNB], 22 vols (Oxford, 1973), XXII, 796–7.
- Foster , J. 1891 . Alumni Oxoniensis, 1715–1886 Vol. II , 573 – 573 . Oxford 4 vols and The records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, 2 vols (London, 1896), II, 50.
- Grove , W.R. 1839 . On a new voltaic battery of great energy; some observations on voltaic combinations and forms of arrangement; and on the inactivity of a copper positive electrode in nitro-sulphuric acid . London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science [hereafter cited as Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag.] , 15 : 287 – 293 .
- Beanland , W.A. 1935 . The history of the Royal Institution of South Wales 14 – 14 . Swansea
- W.A. , Beanland . 1935 . The history of the Royal Institution of South Wales 16 – 16 . Swansea
- Annual Report of the Council of the Royal Institution of South Wales for 1838–39 8 – 10 . Swansea The copy held at University College, London, has been used; the holding there is incomplete and consists of only four annual reports for the period 1835–50. The British Library catalogue indicates that early issues are held, but these have in fact been lost. The Royal Institution in Swansea holds a complete run. The will of the astronomer and soldier Edmund Herbert Grove-Hills (1864–1922), eldest son of Grove's eldest daughter Anna (1841–1909), dated 16 February 1921 and held at Somerset House, lists portraits of various family members, including ‘W. R. Grove the elder’. Identification of him as Grove's uncle, also William Robert Grove (c. 1784–1847), is possible through a report in the local Swansea newspaper The Cambrian, 9 July 1847, in which John Grove (c. 1780–1847), Grove's father, mentions his late brother's bequest to Swansea Infirmary, with which he had been associated for many years.
- Annual Report of the Council of the Royal Institution of South Wales for 1838–39 18 – 18 . Swansea
- January 1837 . The Cambrian January , 2 28 January 1837, 4 February 1837, and 5 January 1839.
- 1837 . The Cambrian 21 January
- January 1839 . The Cambrian January , 12
- Grove , W.R. 1838 . On a new voltaic combination . Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag. , 13 : 430 – 431 .
- Grove , W.R. 1839 . On voltaic series and the combination of gases by platinum . Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag. , 14 : 127 – 130 .
- Annual Report of the Council of the Royal Institution of South Wales for 1838–39 44 – 44 . Swansea In the year ending 1 June 1839, £16 19s. 10d. was spent on ‘philosophical apparatus’.
- Reeve , L.A. 1863–67 . Photographic Portraits and Memoirs of Distinguished Persons in Literature, Science, and Art Vol. 5 , 29 – 29 . London
- Bowers , B. 1975 . Sir Charles Wheatstone 148 – 148 . London
- August 1848 . The Cambrian August , 18 this issue includes a two-page supplement on the meeting, as well as one and a half pages devoted to it in the newspaper itself. An occasional series of publications by the South Wales and Monmouth Record Society includes one, issued in 1963, devoted to Lewis Weston Dillwyn, and extracts from his diaries show that his two sons, John and Lewis Llewelyn (1814–92) had been working on electrically-powered boats as early as January 1841. In 1857 Grove attended a meeting at the Institution of Civil Engineers when Robert Hunt (1807–87) gave a paper on motors (‘On electromagnetism as a motive power’, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 16 (1856–57), 386–99, 400–21); in the lengthy discussion which followed the paper, Grove stated that the boat at Swansea had been made partly under his direction.
- See Grove's obituary in the South Wales Daily News 1896 August 4 and the unpublished lecture The history of electrical engineering in South Wales delivered by R. M. Barker to the Swansea branch of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on 6 May 1971.
- Hill , B. 1841 . “ On a new electro-magnetic machine ” . In Proceedings of the London Electrical Society 83 – 86 . part 2 This paper, Hill's only excursion into print, was read to the Society on 17 August 1841.
- Foster , J. 1885 . Men at the Bar 192 – 192 . London
- June 1837 . The Cambrian June , 3 the place of the wedding was given as Stamford Hill Chapel, and Grove's occupation as barrister.
- 1839 . M. Becquerel communique, au nom de M. Grove, le fait suivant . Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences [hereafter cited as Comptes rendus] , 8 : 497 – 498 .
- 1839 . Pile voltaique d'une grande énergie électro-chimique par M. W. Grove . Comptes rendus , 8 : 567 – 570 .
- Grove , W.R. 1838 . On a new voltaic combination . Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag. , 13 : 430 – 431 .
- Grove may have copied the idea of using a wine glass as the container from a lecture given in Swansea some two years previously, when Byers used one-inch square plates of silver and zinc in a small cell used to energize an electromagnet; see The Cambrian 1837 May 27
- November 1839 . RIGC, Faraday to Grove November , 20 Another letter is dated 14 January 1839 but from its contents we deduce the year to be, in fact, 1840.
- June 1839 . RIGC, Becquerel to Grove June , 25
- 1839 . Note sur l'incapacité de l'eau pour conduire les courants voltaiques sans être décomposée . Comptes rendus , 8 : 802 – 805 . ‘Sur l'inaction du zinc amalgamé dans l'eau acidulée’, Comptes rendus, 8 (1839), 1023–6. The latter also appeared in England (‘On the inaction of amalgamated zinc in acidulated water’, Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag., 15 (1839), 81–5) and Germany (‘Ueber die Unwirksamkeit verdünnter Saüren auf amalgamirtes Zink’, Annalen der Physik, 48 (1839), 310–15.
- Grove , W.R. 1839 . “ On a small voltaic battery of extraordinary power ” . In Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 36 – 38 . part 2
- November 1839 . RIGC, Schönbein to Grove November , 21
- See Taylor E.G.R. The Mathematical Practitioneers of Hanoverian England, 1714–1840 Cambridge 1966 220 220 359, 378, 483. London directories show that in 1856 the firm was taken over by Elliott Brothers of the Strand, another well-established firm of mathematical, optical and philosophical instrument-makers.
- Grove , W.R. 1839 . On a new voltaic battery of great energy; some observations on voltaic combinations and forms of arrangement; and on the inactivity of a copper positive electrode in nitro-sulphuric acid . London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science [hereafter cited as Lond. Edinb. Phil. Mag.] , 15 : 287 – 293 .
- January 1840 . University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein January , 9
- Grove , W.R. 1840 . On some phenomena of the voltaic disruptive discharge . Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. , 16 : 478 – 482 . Although this was Grove's first paper on the arc, three months ealier some of his comments on the subject, in a letter to Schönbein, had been made public; ‘Sur les déflagrations qui ont lieu entre les conducteurs qui communiquent avec les pôles d'une batterie voltaique’, Bibliotheque Universelle de Genève, 25 (1840), 426–8.
- RIGC, Faraday to Grove, 29 February 1840. This letter was addressed to St Anne's Hill, Wandsworth, but by 25 March Grove had moved, as the Camden rate-books prove, to 5 Haverstock Terrace, Hampstead, where he was to live for the next four and a half years. The best report of his lecture is On voltaic reaction, or the phenomena usually termed polarisation Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. 1840 16 338 339
- In January 1840, Jacobi presented his results on the comparison of various cells to the Imperial Academy of Science, St Petersburg Comparative measure of the action of two voltaic pairs, the one copper-zinc, the other platina-zinc Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. 1840 17 241 243 showing that the Grove cell was some sixteen times as effective as the Daniell cell.
- October 1840 . University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein October , 13
- The brief reference to this meeting, in the Transactions and Proceedings of the London Electrical Society 1837–40 180 180 gives no details.
- DNB , IX 590 – 591 .
- May 1847 . RIGC, Harris to Grove May , 24 and Brande to Grove, 8 July 1852.
- DNB , XIII 1072 – 1073 . Mr. H. A. Harvey, until recently Archivist at King's College, tells us he too can find nothing to link Moseley with Grove.
- GH 3076 April 1828 14
- GH 3076 May 1807 6
- GH A.9.6.30 Report of the Committee of Enquiry of the London Institution London 1812 18 18
- GH A.9.6.30 Report of the Committee of Enquiry of the London Institution London 1812 56 56 The anonymous Historical account of the London Institution: including biographical notices and a synoptical view of the library; with a sketch of the scientific history of the establishment, and of the various courses of lectures which have been delivered in the theatre (London, 1835), p. 27, gives a figure of £2482 0s. 8d. for the period 1807–12.
- Manley , K.A. 1819 . An Introductory Discourse 54 – 54 . London
- Taylor , E.G.R. 1966 . The Mathematical Practitioneers of Hanoverian England, 1714–1840 355 – 355 . Cambridge Conceivably Bate was also the supervisor of the apparatus referred to in 1812.
- GH 3076 April 1815 17
- GH 3076 April 1819 8
- GH 3076 June 1822 13
- GH 3075 April 1831
- Gh 3076 March 1831 29 and 9 June 1831
- Gh 3076 1831 9 June
- 1805 . Proposed plan of the London Institution 9 – 9 . London
- GH 3076 June 1831 9
- GH 3076 September 1840 19
- GH 3076 October 1840 8
- Boddington, Greenaway and Taylor have been identified through London directories, the lists of proprietors, and the collection of balloting lists for the officers of the Institution (GH SL 50/2). In addition, an obituary of Greenaway exists in the Journal of the London Institution 1872 2 74 74
- GH 3076 November 1840 26
- GH 3076 January 1841 14
- GH 3076 February 1841 11
- See the entry on Grove in the DNB XXII 797 797 Later Powles seems to have moved to Enfield (see Kelly's Home Counties Court Directory (London, 1845), p. 1062, which has John D. Powles at Turkey Street) although local libraries there have no record of him.
- Entries under ‘insurance broker’ have been traced in the various London directories back to 1811. For Powles's dubious business schemes, see Richardson C. Mr. John Diston Powles London n.d.
- December 1840 . RIGC, Pereira to Grove December , 3 No letters from Grove to Pereira have been traced.
- Pereira , J. 1842 . The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics Vol. II , 35 – 36 . London 2 vols The same account was to appear in the third edition (1849 and 1853); the first edition (1839–40) had no section on the uses of electricity in medicine.
- August 1840 . RIGC, Gassiot to Grove August , 17
- Gassiot's home was a popular meeting place for workers from home and overseas. Thus, the Swiss natural philosopher Auguste de la Rive (1801–73) wrote in glowing terms of having attended one of Gassiot's ‘electrical soirées’ on 23 May 1843, when one hundred Grove cells were used to produce a brilliant carbon arc. It is tempting to assume that Grove was present, although reports of the meeting do not mention him; a translation of de la Rive's account of the meeting appeared in Walker's Electrical Magazine, no. 9 1845 105 105 and the Literary Gazette, no. 1375 (27 May 1845), 352 also carried a brief report.
- October 1840 . RIGC, Gassiot to Grove October , 26
- GH 3075 April 1828 24
- 1854 . Descriptive Catalogue of the Lectures Delivered at the London Institution… 20 – 20 . London It may be of interest to mention here the topics of the soirée lectures for 1841; Grove's was the first, and the others were the geology of the moon, photography using Woolcott's reflecting apparatus, and reminiscences of a tour through Canada.
- The report appeared under Proceedings of learned societies Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. 1841 18 234 235
- Armstrong's fourteen years at the London Institution are briefly discussed in Eyre J.V. Henry Edward Armstrong London 1958 67 69 and H. E. Armstrong and the Teaching of Science, edited by W. H. Brock (Cambridge, 1973), pp. 11, 68.
- Armstrong's own words are quoted, with no source cited, in the Armstrong Memorial number of The Central 1938 35 12 12
- Royal Literary Fund, file 1171. Thanks are due to Michael Cross, archivist to the Fund (established to give aid to authors or their dependents) for allowing access to this file and to others involving Grove. These are: file 1842, Henry Murray (1807–73), sometime tutor to Grove's two sons; file 1969, Samuel Highley (1826–1900), publisher (or perhaps his son of the same name) of Grove's The correlation of physical forces London 1846 file 2183, James Frederick Hodgetts (1832-?), stepson of Edward William Brayley (1801–70), lecturer, librarian, and later professor at the London Institution.
- Fisher , G.T. 1837 . The Aphorisms of Junius London
- GH 3076 April 1842 14
- RIGC, Fisher to Grove undated.
- GH 3076 April 1842 14
- Although Fisher's wife's list of his works mentions only three books Photogenic Manipulations London 1843 Practical Treatise on Medical Electricity (London, 1845); Microscopic Manipulation (London, 1846)—the British Library Catalogue lists seven works, some of which are, in fact, anonymous. Fisher's magazine articles, all signed GTF and attributed to him by his wife, were: ‘Researches on magnetism’, Westminster Review, 45 (1846), 281–303; ‘The microscope and its revelations’, ibid., 46 (1846–47), 29–60; ‘Revelations of the telescope’, ibid., 46 (1847), 335–80.
- GH 3076 May 1841 13
- GH 3076 March 1842 10
- This letter is item 52 in volume 2 of the Faraday folio kept at the Royal Institution, and is reprinted in Williams L.P. Gideon A. Mantell London 1927 I 402 402
- Britton , J. and Pugin , A. 1825 . Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London Vol. I , 192 – 192 . London 2 vols 1828) Armstrong was less flattering, describing the laboratory as little more than a coal-hole or cellar; see footnote 87, and W. H. Brock (footnote 86), 68.
- Parkes , S. 1826 . The Chemical Catechism , 12th edn xxiv – xxiv . London Parkes (1761–1825) was one of the original properties of the Institution.
- 1835 . Historical Account of the London Institution: including biographical notices and a synoptical view of the library; with a sketch of the scientific history of the establishment, and of the various courses of lectures which have been delivered in the theatre 26 – 26 . London
- GH 3076 May 1841 13
- GH 3076 March 1843 9 R.W. Frazer (footnote 5), 18, gives the total incorrectly as £ 18 9s, 11d.
- GH 3076 April 1842 14 Grove mentioned his notebooks in one of his papers, ‘Voltaic phenomena; action at the anode; analysis of heating effects; ignition at the surface of an electrolyte’, Electrical Magazine, no. 2 (1843), 118–22
- The report appeared under Proceedings of learned societies Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. 1841 19 88 88 Some Pepys correspondence, currently on loan to the Royal Institution, includes a letter from Grove, dated 27 May 1841, inviting Pepys to attend the demonstration on 4 June.
- Walker , C.V. 1841 . The relative powers of certain diaphragm voltaic combinations; a new form of the negative element in voltaic arrangements . Proceedings of the London Electrical Society , : 114 – 118 . part 2
- According to Tommasi D. Traité des Piles Électriques Paris 1889 92 92 Grove did eventually replace the silver cathode of a Smee cell with a gauze of platinized silver wire.
- November 1841 . RIGC, Faraday to Grove November , 18 this short note simply refers to a ‘poor double coil put with the other things for you’.
- GH 3076 April 1842 14
- GH A.9.6.30, A Lecture on the progress of Physical Science since the opening of the London Institution London 1842
- GH 3076 February 1842 10 and 10 March 1842; at this latter meeting Grove was re-appointed for the coming year.
- 1842 . A Lecture on the progress of Physical Science since the opening of the London Institution 30 – 30 . London Other writers on Grove seem to have been unaware of this early statement by him on correlation, and date his ideas from his 1843 lecture course on the subject.
- Grove , W.R. 1841 . “ On a voltaic process for etching daugerreotype plates ” . In Proceedings of the London Electrical Society 94 – 99 . part 2
- 1854 . Descriptive Catalogue of the Lectures delivered at the London Institution … 35 – 35 . London
- Martin , T. 1932–36 . Faraday's Diary Vol. 8 , 66 – 78 . London IV
- University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein, 20 August 1842. The letter is partially reprinted in The letters of Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Christian Friedrich Schönbein Kahlbaum G.W.A. London 1900 113 113
- GH 3075 April 1843 27
- 1879 . Negretti & Zambra's Encyclopaedic and Descriptive Reference Catalogue … 391 – 391 . London c. a set of six cells mounted in a stand cost £6 10s. 0d.
- For example, by Malone T.A. On the gas battery of Mr Grove; and its theory Mechanics' Magazine 1864 11 72 73
- For an adequate but brief discussion of the two men's theories, see Noad H.M. A Manual of Electricity , 4th edn London 1855 293 294
- Williams , L.P. 1927 . Gideon A. Mantell Vol. I , 402 – 402 . London
- Grove , W.R. 1842 . On a gaseous voltaic battery . Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. , 21 : 417 – 420 .
- Grove , W.R. 1843 . On the gas voltaic battery; experiments made with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action, and its application to eudiometry . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 133 : 91 – 112 .
- Almost nothing is known about Woodward, even by E. A. Willats of the Central Library, Islington, who has made a study of the Literary and Scientific Institution. His F.R.S. certificate, dated 29 April 1841, gives his profession as agent and states he had improved apparatus and published several scientific papers. Pereira J. The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics London 1842 II 37 37 2 vols mentions Woodward experimenting on the effect of electric sparks on humans, and he dedicated his collected Lectures on Polarised Light (London, 1843) to Woodward, who had helped with the experiments.
- 1843 . Experiments with a large Leyden battery . Proceedings of the London Electrical Society , : 504 – 504 . part 7
- GH 3076 December 1842 8
- 1843 . On some of the physical discoveries of the past year . Literary Gazette , : 38 – 39 .
- 1843 . On the gaseous voltaic battery . Literary Gazette , : 106 – 106 . A longer report appeared in Walker's Electrical Magazine, no. 1 (1843), 57–9. The Royal Institution records have the date wrongly listed as 9 February.
- RIGC, Talbot to Grove, 12 January 1843, and Wheatstone to Grove, 16 January 1843. Other relevant Talbot correspondence is held at the Lacock Museum, items LA 43-3 and LA 43-6; these are quoted in Arnold H.J.P. William Henry Fox Talbot London 1977 226 227
- GH 3076 June 1843 8
- November 1843 . University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein November , 14 we have inserted the necessary punctuations as Grove was always rather lax.
- Fisher , G.T. 1846 . Researches on magnetism . Westminster Review , 45 : 281 – 303 .
- 1843 . Literary Gazette 748 – 748 . no. 1400 and no. 1408 (1844), 23–5; these reports appeared under the heading ‘Arts and sciences’.
- 1844 . Proceedings of learned societies . Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. , 24 : 76 – 78 .
- GH 3075 April 1846 30
- The slim volume was published by Samual Highley of Fleet Street, whose firm had already published works by such men as Berzelius, Davy and Faraday. Reviews of the book appeared, for example, in the Westminster Review 1846–47 46 633 634 the Athenaeum, no. 990 (17 October 1846), 1063–4; the Literary Gazette, no. 1552 (17 October 1846), 887–8.
- Addams has been traced to Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Chichester; see his letter in Chemical News and Journal of Physical (Industrial) Science 1866 13 249 250 F. W. Steer, The Chichester Literary and Philosophical Society and Mechanics' Institute, 1831–1924 (Chichester, 1962), p. 4, and G. D. Bishop, Physics Teaching in England from Early Times up to 1850 (London, 1961), p. 155.
- January 1844 . University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein January , 30 Besides the two sons already referred to, Grove had two daughters by this time; Anna, born August 1841, and Marion, born October 1843.
- February 1844 . RIGC, Schönbein to Grove February , 18
- February 1844 . RIGC, Faraday to Grove February , 20
- RIGC, Playfiar to Grove, 6 February 1844. Reid W. Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyon Playfair London 1899 has no reference to Playfair's hopes of obtaining the professorship.
- GH 3076 May 1844 9 The other scientific members of the committee were Pepys, Baily, Bell, Gassiot and Pereira.
- 1844 . On the progress made in the application of electricity as a motive power . Literary Gazette , : 113 – 113 .
- Late in 1846 Grove was to be elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy in Turin, but this was engineered by Carlo Matteucci, not Botto, who was, it seems, never in contact with Grove. See RIGC, Matteucci to Grove 1846 October 22 and also Carlo Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847) to Grove, 23 December 1846.
- November 1845 . University of Bâle MS, Grove to Schönbein November , 16
- Fisher , G.T. 1846 . Researches on magnetism . Westminster Review , 45 : 289 – 289 .
- Grove , W.R. 1844 . On photography . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , : 37 – 38 . part 2
- See the reports of the meeting in the Literary Gazette 1844 1448 671 671 and no. 1449 (1844), 684.
- Ovenden , G. , ed. 1973 . Hill and Adamson Photographs 6 – 6 . London The negative of Grove's calotype is dated October 1844 and held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (private communication). The photograph appears as the frontispiece to the privately published pamphlet by R. D. Wood, The calotype patent lawsuit of Talbot v. Laroche 1854 (1975), written to commemorate the opening of the Lacock Museum at Lacock, Wiltshire.
- 1844 . Electro-magnetic sounds . Literary Gazette , : 704 – 704 .
- Walker , C.V. 1845 . Magnetic note . Electrical Magazine , : 527 – 528 .
- The report is under Scientific meetings Electrical Magazine 1845 7 536 537
- Martyn J. Roberts (n.d.) worked in Scotland and Cornwall on the use of voltaic batteries for detonating explosive charges. No biography exists but his work can be traced through the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers London 1869–72 6 226 226
- 1845 . Scientific meetings . Electrical Magazine , : 601 – 601 .
- Two reports of this meeting exist; under Arts and sciences Literary Gazette 1845 1466 119 120 and ‘Scientific meetings’, Electrical Magazine, no. 8 (1845), 599–601.
- GH 3076 March 1845 13
- Grove , W.R. 1843 . On the gas voltaic battery; experiments made with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action, and its application to eudiometry . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 133 : 91 – 112 .
- Grove , W.R. 1845 . On the gas voltaic battery; voltaic action of phosphorus, sulphur and hydrocarbons . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 135 : 351 – 361 .
- Grove , W.R. 1845 . On recent experiments on the gas voltaic battery . Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , : 30 – 30 . part 2
- June 1845 . Cambridge Chronicle June , 28 Miss R. Graham, in charge of manuscripts at Trinity College, tells us that nothing is recorded there concerning Grove's stay.
- GH 3076 December 1845 11
- From May 1840 we find Grove using rooms in the Temple, and in his correspondence for this period there is the occasional reference to his legal work. Thus, in October 1843 he was employed in the revision of electoral lists National Library of Scotland MS, Grove to Alexander Blackwood 1843 September 18
- Grove , W.R. 1841 . On some electro-notrogurets . Lond. Edinb. Dubl. Phil. Mag. , 19 : 97 – 104 . Grove mentions that Schönbein witnessed some of the experiments at the hospital. W. R. Winterton, archivist to the Middlesex Hospital, tells us that little is known about Everitt, except that he was appointed to be in charge of chemistry in 1835 and resigned because of ill-health in 1843. He was, like Grove, on the first council of the Chemical Society in 1841.
- September 1844 . National Library of Scotland MS, Grove to Alexander Blackwood September , 1
- Articles in Black wood's magazine were usually anonymous, but Grove can be identified as the author from The Wellesley Index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900 Houghton W.E. Toronto 1966–72 I 918 918 3 vols Grove's offer of an article on patents (National Library of Scotland MS, Grove to Alexander Blackwood, 18 July 1845) was not acted upon.
- Hays , J.N. 1819 . An Introductory Discourse London passim.
- Hays , J.N. 1819 . An Introductory Discourse 150 – 150 . London
- Taken from an address Grove delivered to the Chemical Society on 24 February 1891; see The Jubilee of the Chemical Society of London London 1896 16 17
- Kahlbaum , G.W.A. 1900 . The letters of Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Christian Friedrich Schönbein Edited by: Kahlbaum , G.W.A. 5 – 5 . London
- Standard references to the Chemical Society of London (such as Moore T.S. Philip J.C. The Chemical Society, 1841–1941 London 1947 show that Grove was a founder member and on the council for 1841–42. None of the Grove's extant correspondence makes any reference to the origins of the Society, although there does exist a printed circular, dated 12 March 1841, which includes his name amongst the fourteen members of a Provisional Committee formed on 23 February as the first step towards organizing a society. The circular is signed by Robert Warington (1807–67), the Society's first secretary; RIGC, Warington to Grove, 12 March 1841. We have not yet been able to see R. Bud, ‘The discipline of chemistry: the origins and early years of the Chemical Society of London’ (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).
- Quoted in Timbs J. Club Life of London London 1866 80 80 but with no indication of the source. The major discussion of the Philosophical Club is to be found in T. E. Allibone, The Royal Society and its Dining Clubs (Oxford, 1976).
- We can ignore Adam Scott's attack An Introductory Discourse London 1819 which was not directed at Grove personally, but naturally mentioned him as it presented three basic complaints; the lack of lectures from 1805 to 1819, the arrangement of lectures when they did begin (‘flash topics where amusement is more sought after than solid attainment’), and their cost—he estimated that Grove's forty-three lectures involved an average cost to the Institution of £37.
- Cutler , J.C. 1978 . The London Institution , 163 – 163 . University of Leicester . unpublished Ph.D. thesis
- See the typescript copies of Tyndall's letters held at the Royal Institution II 671 683
- Williams , L.P. 1965–66 . The historiography of Victorian science . Victorian Studies , 9 : 197 – 204 .
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