James Smithson's Calamines Paper
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Creator: Smithson, James 1765-1829
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Date: 1802
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 2, Folder: 3
James Smithson (c.1765-1829) read this scientific paper, "A chemical analysis of some calamines," to the Royal Society of London on November 18, 1802. It was then published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. In honor of Smithson's proof in this paper that such compounds are true minerals, not merely calx of zinc, as was claimed by the renowned l'abbe Rene Just Hauy, the mineral was named Smithsonite by Francois S. Beaudant in "Traite Elementaire de Mineralogue" in 1832. A copy of the Philosophical Transactions is one of 213 books from James Smithson's personal library which came to the Smithsonian with his bequest.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7000, Box 2, Folder: 3
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