- Brock , W.H. 1978 . The Society for the Perpetuation of Gmelin: the Cavendish Society, 1846–1872 . Annals of Science , 35 : 599 – 617 .
- Meynell , G.G. 1985 . The Two Sydenham Societies. A History and Bibliography of the Medical Classics Published by the Sydenham Society and the New Sydenham Society (1844–1911) Acrise, Kent
- Bud , Robert and Roberts , Gerrylynn K. 1984 . Science versus Practice. Chemisty in Victorian Britain Manchester Chapter 2.
- Bud , Robert and Roberts , Gerrylynn K. 1984 . Science versus Practice. Chemisty in Victorian Britain 57 – 57 . Manchester The Scottish position was filled by James F. W. Johnston. Liebig arranged for Will to be given an Assistant Professorship at Giessen in order to ensure that he could not take the London post, while at the same time arranging for his pupil, A. W. Hofmann, to accept the Royal College of Chemistry Directorship. See Will to Warington, Giessen, undated (1845), Lawes-Gilbert papers, file G. 108, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2LQ, U.K. There is an excellent calendar of these papers: Margaret Harcourt Williams, Catalogue of the Rothamsted Archives (Harpenden, 1987).
- Will to Warington, Giessen, 25 October 1846. Rothamsted archives, G. 108. On Bullock, see Bud and Roberts, (footnote 3), pp. 51–3 and 201; and for Blyth, see Partington J.R. A History of Chemistry London 1964 IV 327 327 Both Bullock and Blyth had worked with Liebig and Will at Giessen.
- Gmelin's project began as Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie Frankfurt 1817–1819 2 vols second edition 1821–1822; third edition 1827–1829, The fourth, enlarged edition, entitled Handbuch der Chemie, was published at Heidelberg between 1843 and 1866, and occupied nine volumes. This was completed by a team of German editors who simultaneously worked on a fifth edition begun by Gmelin in the year of his death and completed in thirteen volumes in 1870. Interestingly, this edition incorporated material from the Cavendish Society's English edition.
- Will had previously published an account of the Liebig-Giessen method of analysis Anletitung zur qualitativen Analyse Heidelberg 1846 translated as Outlines of the Course of Qualitative Analysis Followed in the Giessen Laboratory (London, 1846).
- July 1846 . Wilson to Warington, Edingurgh July , 25 Rothamsted archives, G. 108.
- Wilson , George . 1851 . Life and Works of Cavendish London This was the fifth volume published by the Society. See Brock (footnote 1), p. 605 (reference 32).
- November 1846 . Fownes to Warington , November , London : University College . 12 Rothamstead archives, G. 108. Fownes (1815–49) was Professor of Practical Chemistry at University College, London.
- Kendall , James . 1954 . The Alembic Club . Endeavour , 13 : 94 – 96 . The Club was founded in 1889 and issued its first reprint in 1893.
- March 1859 . Graham to Roscoe March , London 2 Royal Chemical Society archives. The phrase was apparently Charles Daubeny's. I thank Dr M. Stanley for this reference.
- Brock . 1978 . The Society for the Perpetuation of Gmelin: the Cavendish Society, 1846–1872 . Annals of Science , 35 : 609 – 609 .
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