Smithson's First Scientific Paper
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ID: SIA2011-1374
Creator: Royal Society of London
Form/Genre: Paper
Date: July 7, 1791
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 2, Folder: 3
Page one of James Smithson's first scientific paper, "An Account of some chemical Experiments on Tabasheer," read to the Royal Society of London on 7 July 1791. James Smithson read the paper under the name of James Louis Macie, the name he used until c. 1800..It was then published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume LXXXI, part 2, p. 368. The paper details his many experiments on this substance found in bamboo.
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In all, Smithson wrote 27 papers as contributions to the scientific literature, 8 published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London and 19 in Thomson's Annals of Philosophy. These are reproduced in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 21, no. 327, 1881, edited by William J. Rhees.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 2, Folder: 3
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 7, 1791
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