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BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Number 11, Winter 1991
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TITLE
Author
Page
Number
Symposium Introduction.
Derek A. Davenport
3
The Royal Institution and Michael Faraday: A Personal View.
John Meurig Thomas
4
Faraday and his Biographers.
L. Pearce Williams
9
Faraday's Election to the Royal Society: A Reputation in Jeopardy.
June Z. Fullmer and Melvyn C. Usselman
17
Educating the Judgment: Faraday as a Lecturer.
Geoffrey Cantor
28
The Military Context of Chemistry: The Case of Michael Faraday.
Frank A. J. L. James
36
Michael Faraday's Bibles as Mirrors of his Faith.
Herbert T. Pratt
40
Faraday's Health Problems.
James F. O'Brien
47
Faraday's 1822
Chemical Hints
Notebook and the Semantics of Chemical Discourse.
Ryan D. Tweney
51
Faraday's Search for Fluorine.
Harold Goldwhite
55
Observations on Faraday as Organic Chemist Manque.
Derek A. Davenport
60
Michael Faraday and the Art and Science of Chemical Manipulation.
William B. Jensen
65
The Chemical Manipulator.
Sydney Ross
76
Unpublished Letters of Faraday and Others to Edward Daniel Clarke.
Sydney Ross
79
The Pathway to the Laws of Electrolysis.
John T. Stock
86
From Electrochemical Equivalency to a Mole of Electrons:
The Evolution of the Faraday.
Marcy Hamby Towns and Derek A. Davenport
92
A Biographical Check List.
100
A Faraday Timeline.
101