Guerlac-Perrin Lavoisier Archive, 1939-1987.
Collection Number: 4710

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Guerlac-Perrin Lavoisier Archive, 1939-1987.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4710
Abstract:
Notes on manuscript sources for the study of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, compiled by American historians of science Henry Guerlac, Carl Perrin, and Rhoda Rappaport.
Creator:
Guerlac, Henry.
Perrin, Carl.
Rappaport, Rhoda.
Académie des sciences (France)
Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne
Archives nationales (France)
Museum d\'histoire naturelle (Paris, France)
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek
British Library
Quanitities:
6.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Notes on manuscript sources for the study of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, compiled by American historians of science Henry Guerlac, Carl Perrin, and Rhoda Rappaport. Includes notes on contemporaries of Lavoisier and transcriptions of passages from manuscripts. Scientists investigated include Lavoisier, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Pierre Joseph Macquer and his Dictionnaire de chimie, and Philippe-Frédéric baron de Dietrich, Jean Senebier, Torbern Bergman, Joseph Black, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Johann Theodor Eller, Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau and his Elemens de chimie théorique et pratique. Also included are notes on minutes of meetings of the Académie des sciences (France) in the late 18th century.
Libraries consulted include the Académie des Sciences (France), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Archives Nationales (France), Museum d'histoire naturelle, Bibliotheek of the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, British Library, and others.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
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Guerlac-Perrin Lavoisier Archive, #4710. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794.
Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832.
Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784.
Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784. (Title of work: Dictionnaire de chymie..)
Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, 1755-1809.
Dietrich, Philippe-Frédéric, baron de, 1748-1793.
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786.
Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816.
Subjects:
Chemistry -- History -- Sources.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Henry Guerlac
Scope and Contents
Items with 18th and early 19th Century dates within the collection are copies and refer to the original dates of publication or creation.
Microfilm
Box 1
Isaac Newton: Opticks, 1704 (with additional MS material)
 1704
Box 1
Miscellaneous papers of Academies Des Sciences in Biblioteque Nationale
 September 1773
Scope and Contents
"Verification des expériences de M. Lavoisier sur la fixation de l'ais daus…" Sept. 1773
Box 1
British Museum
Box 1
Biblioteque Nationale Lavoisier M35
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Ellen B. Wells, underlined "atrocious signatures" to label reel
Box 1
Journal de Medecine, vol 33 (complete)
Scope and Contents
Includes subject-author index for first 65 volumes and correspondence with Ellen B. Wells
Box 1
De Calore
Box 1
Opticks by Isaac Newton (from MIT)
 October 4, 1730
Box 1
Vol. 7 of Lavoisier's registres, Archives of Académie des Sciences
 November 1782-1784
Box 1
Atlas Mineralogique
Box 1
Foreign Correspondence
Scope and Contents
Label is hard to read.
Box 1
From the Royal Society of London
Box 1
Laval Voyage
Box 1
Unlabelled Microfilm Reel
Box 1
Unlabelled Microfilm Reel
Box 1
From the Royal Society of London
Box 1
Series IV #1: Archives Nationales
Box 1
BPD 4795 - From Oxford University Press
Box 1
Dossiers 1324, 1326, 1335-37, 1341, 1346
Scope and Contents
Laplace-4, Brisson-2, Trudaine-1, Bucquet-1, Guylon-1
Box 1
23, 19 diagram, 28, 66
Box 1
E. McDonald; Jean Baptiste Michele Bucquet
Box 1
Empty Box -- Second addition é la dé….eiation préseutée eui…
Box 1
Kodak box -- 5 rolls of microfilm,
Scope and Contents
Labelled volume 10-13 and one unlabeled
Box 1
Wooden Box: Guerlac's Research, Series I
Box 1
Wooden Box: Guerlac's Research, Series II
Box 1
Cardboard Box of loose microfilm rolls and clippings
Research materials relating to Lavoisier Bibliography
Scope and Contents
Secondary literature, correspondence, drafts, xeroxes, etc.
Box 2 Folder 2
Henry Guerlac - Short Biography
 1971
Box 2 Folder 3
Hand-written notes
Scope and Contents
Includes a family tree of Jacques Paulze.
Box 2 Folder 4
Chronology of Lavoisier
Box 2 Folder 5
A Chronology of Lavoisier's Career
Box 2 Folder 6
M. Berthelot: Discourse on Lavoisier
Box 2 Folder 7
Birembaut: "Quelques aspects de la personnalite de Lavoisier"
 1953-1959
Scope and Contents
Includes other manuscripts by Birembaut
Box 2 Folder 8
William Brande on Lavoisier in: A Manual of Chemistry (copies)
 1819, 1830
Box 2 Folder 9
Cuvier: article "Lavoisier" from Michaud: Biographie Univer. (copies)
Box 2 Folder 10
Fourcroy: "Notice sur Lavoisier", Lalande: "Notice sur Lavoisier" (copies)
Box 2 Folder 11
Rabbe: Biographie Universelle et Portative des Contemporains Article "Lavoisier" (copy)
 1836
Box 2 Folder 12
"Abbé Terray" in Pierre Clément: Portraits Historiques (copy)
 1855
Box 2 Folder 13
Lavoisier and the Revolution
Box 2 Folder 14
Lavoisier's Library
 September 26, 1975
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Ellen Wells and Prof. H. Guerlac regarding Cornell University collection
Box 2 Folder 15
Hand-written notes and "Why Was Lavoisier Beheaded?" a term paper by Karl Nell (1953)
 1953, undated
Scope and Contents
In legal sized folder.
Box 2 Folder 16
"Lavoisier", an essay by Dan Marvin (copy)
 April 8, 1863
Box 2 Folder 17
Dr. Cabanès: (1) "A qui doit on imputer la mort de Lavoisier"; (2) "La Republique m'a pas Lesoin de Savants"; (3) "Une infirmerie prison pendant la Terreur" (copies)
Box 2 Folder 18
Review (unpublished) of Lavoisier Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 19
Correspondence related to Lavoisier Book
 1961-1964
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Cornell and Guerlac, royalty reports
Box 2 Folder 20
Reviews of "Lavoisier, the Crucial Year"
 1962-1963
Box 2 Folder 21
The Chemical Revolution: A Word from Monsieur Fourcroy"
 1974
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence between Bernard Cohen and Henry Guerlac
Box 2 Folder 22
Observations sur la Physique: "Extrait d'un Mémoire lu par M. Lavoisier…sur la nature de l'Eu, & sur des expériences qui paroissent prouver que cette substance n'est point élément proprement dit…" (copy)
 December 1783
Box 2 Folder 23
Collection académique and References to Ellen and Veirel(?) Russians exczec(?) on Neiciuy(?)
Box 2 Folder 24
Effervescence -- Lavoisier & Gaujon
 December 1769
Scope and Contents
Copy of Journal des Sçavans with notes
Box 2 Folder 25
"Précis de la doctrine de M. de Morveau" Observations 2 p. 281-291 (copy)
 October 1773
Box 2 Folder 26
Review of Duveen Bib.
Box 2 Folder 27
Notes primarily regarding books for research
Box 2 Folder 28
"Nouvelles" -- a review of recent work on analyses and synthesis of water, and its implications. J. de Medicine 61 pp. 429-431 (copy)
Box 2 Folder 29
David Portrait of Lavoisier
 1788, 1968
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from William A. Bayless
Box 2 Folder 30
Preface to Mme. Lavoisier traducieur
Box 2 Folder 31
Physico-Chymie Théorique, Endialogue, par M.L.J. Decroix, a review from J. de Médecine vol 61 pp. 104-6
Box 2 Folder 32
Le Defenseur des Opprimés ou le Francais Impartiale (From Auland Collection -- Harvard) (copy)
 1790
Box 2 Folder 33
"Discours sur le Phlogistique" Observations 3 p. 185-200
 1774
Box 2 Folder 34
Sur la nature du principe, etc. Rozier's Journal
 1775
Box 2 Folder 35
Carozzi on Lavoisier's Geology
 1965
Scope and Contents
The Ohio Journal of Science, volume 65
Box 2 Folder 36
Alexander Crum Brown: "The development of the idea of chemical composition" (copy)
 1897
Box 2 Folder 37
Crosland: "Lavoisier's Theory of Acidity"
 1973
Box 2 Folder 38
J.B. Dumas to the Pli casleié
 1969
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence between J. Bentley and Henry Guerlac
Box 2 Folder 39
Fric: "Contribution à l'évolution des idées de Lavoisier sur la nature de l'air et sur la calcination de métaux" and notes
 1968
Box 2 Folder 40
Lavoisier on Respiration
Box 2 Folder 41
Jerry Gough: Articles and Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 42
Kohler on Lavoisier and Combustion
 1972
Box 2 Folder 43
Mason: Graphic Formulas in Organic Chemistry
 1943
Box 2 Folder 44
E. McDonald: "The Collaboration of Bucquet and Lavoisier"
 June 1966
Box 2 Folder 45
Douglas Mckie: "Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, F.R.S." Notes and Records 7 (1949) pp. 1-41
 1949
Box 2 Folder 46
Meldrum: "Three Notes on Combustion" (copy)
 1932
Box 2 Folder 47
Meldrum: "Lavoisier's Early Work in Science" - Part I and Part II (copy)
 1934
Box 2 Folder 48
Robert J. Morris, Jr.: Articles
 June 1972
Box 2 Folder 49
Reply to Morris
 1968
Box 2 Folder 50
Pattison Muir: Heroes of Science article "Lavoisier" (copy)
 1883
Box 2 Folder 51
Multhauf (on Gunpowder): The French Crash Program for Saltpeter Production, 1776-94
 April 1971
Box 2 Folder 52
Payen on Powder
Box 2 Folder 53
Perrin - unpublished papers of 1973
 1973
Box 2 Folder 54
Perrin, Carl - Prelude to a Theory of Calcination
Box 2 Folder 55
Perrin - Anonymous article regarding Phlogiston
Box 2 Folder 56
Perrin - Method and Metaphysics in Lavoisier's Table of the Elements
Box 2 Folder 57
Rappaport: "The early disputes between Lavoisier and Monnet"
Box 2 Folder 58
"Avis sur les Leçons de Chymie de feu M. Roulle" -- Journal de Médecine vol. 33 pp. 381-2
Box 2 Folder 59
Mario Roustan: "Lavoisier et l'éducation nationale"
 September 1927
Box 2 Folder 60
Smeaton & Fourcroy: Articles and Correspondence
 1974
Box 2 Folder 61
M. Speter: "Lavoisier und seine Vorläufer"
 1910
Box 2 Folder 62
Gunpowder in America from The American Historical Review
 1925
Box 2 Folder 63
Thackray -- notes from his thesis regarding Lavoisier
 1966-1968
Miscellaneous Research
Box 2 Folder 64
The Lavoisier Papers
 1977-1978
Box 2 Folder 65
Boerhaave: Articles and Correspondence
 1951-1953
Box 2 Folder 66
Lavoisier and Electricity
Box 2 Folder 67
Lavoisier Memoirs abstract ed. I -- Mem. sur la combustion en général
 1777-1779
Box 2 Folder 68
Metzger: Philosophie de la Matiére chez Lavoisier
 1935
Box 2 Folder 69
Paneth: Concept of Element
 May 1962
Box 2 Folder 70
R. Taton: "A propos de l'oeuvre de Monge en physique"
Box 2 Folder 71
Chemistry as a Branch of Physics -- collaboration of Lavoisier and Laplace
 1787, 1974-1975
Box 2 Folder 72
Hand-written Notes
Box 2 Folder 73
Guyion de Morveau (copy)
 1806
Box 2 Folder 74
Calorimeter - Notes on Lavoisier on Respiration
Box 2 Folder 75
Use of Word "Gas" (notes)
Box 2 Folder 76
Designations of Oxygen (Lavoisier)
Box 2 Folder 77
Lavoisier - Laplace - Memoir of 1793
Box 2 Folder 78
Mémoire sur la Chaleur (copies)
 1974
Box 2 Folder 79
Mémoire sur la Chaleur (correspondence)
 1978
Box 2 Folder 80
Lavoisier Mémoir abstract ed. "Unes générales sur la calorique" in Memoire de Chimie (notes)
 1792
Box 2 Folder 81
Matiere du feu (notes)
 1777
Box 2 Folder 82
Negatives from Illustrations
Box 2 Folder 83
Correspondence, Xeroxes
 1956, 1975, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of "Traite de Physique Experimentale et Mathematique" by J.B. Biot
Box 2 Folder 84
"Chemistry as a Branch of Physics: Laplace's Collaboration with Lavoisier"
Scope and Contents
Notations in the margins.
Lavoisier Manuscripts Offered for Sale
Box 3 Folder 1
Madame Lavoisier
 1951-1974
Box 3 Folder 2
Lavoisier Exposition: Paris, Lycée Lavoisier, 1967 (comm. By Steve Jacobs)
 1967
Box 3 Folder 3
Lavoisier Leiker(?)
 1774, 1970
Scope and Contents
Copies of manuscripts
Box 3 Folder 4
Lavoisier Letters, 1789-1791
 1972
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and listing only
Box 3 Folder 5
Kraus -- Important Works in the field of Science
 1974
Materials relating to Lavoisier Archives
Lists and Procedures
Box 3 Folder 6
Lavoisier Project -- Cornell-Paris contacts, April 1982
 April 1982
Box 3 Folder 7
Lavoisier -- Manuscripts Recataloguing project
 August 1982
Box 3 Folder 8
Manuscripts: Cataloguing and Indexing Procedures
Box 3 Folder 27
List of Documents in Eleutherian Mills Historical Library
 1981
Box 3 Folder 28
Lavoisier Documents (Guerlac): Punchcard Keysort Classification Code
Box 3 Folder 29
Microfilms -- Russian
Box 3 Folder 30
List of Microfilms in Series III -- Duveen Collection
Box 3 Folder 31
List of Microfilms; Series IV
Box 3 Folder 32
Documents to Order
Box 3 Folder 33
Manuscripts and Microfilms
Photographs of Manuscripts (uncatalogued)
Box 3 Folder 9
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle MS 1929 IV 3 "Catalogue d'une belle collection de mines"
 1929
Box 3 Folder 10
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle MS 1929 IV 5 Letter from Pierre to Lavoisier (18 May 1765)
 1765, 1929
Box 3 Folder 11
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle MS 1929 IV 4 Letter from Chavoyer to Lavoisier (30 Sept. 1767)
 1797, 1929
Box 3 Folder 12
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle MS 1996, 27 Letter from Dalloz to Lavoisier (30 August 1784)
 1784, 1996
Box 3 Folder 13
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle MS 1996, No 91 Letter from Perruchon de Longeville to Lavoisier (9 June 1788)
 1788, 1996
Box 3 Folder 14
Académie des Sciences 1670 Bm & Bn sur les élemens (1766)
 1766
Box 3 Folder 15
#1385 Reflexions sur les expériences qu'on peut tenter à l'aide du mirior ardent
 1772
Box 3 Folder 16
Lavoisier & Macques report on Mitouard's memoir on destruction of diamond
 1792
Box 3 Folder 17
Macquer & Lavoisier report on Mitouard's distillation of phosphorous
 1772
Box 3 Folder 18
Archives Nationales MS
Box 3 Folder 19
Archives Nationales AEii 1014
 1774
Box 3 Folder 20
Besançon -- Bibliotheque Mun. MS 1442 fols 19, 20. Report to the Academy on an Observation of M. Hesmann (9 June '73)
 1773, 1962
Box 3 Folder 21
Biblioteque De Clermont-Ferrand MS 337 fols 276-7 "Memoir pour le Dupain-Triel"
 1771
Box 3 Folder 22
Biblioteque De Clermont-Ferrand MS 337 fol 404
 1814
Box 3 Folder 23
Biblioteque Nationale N.A. Fr. 1305 fol. 149; Letter to Parisis, fils (20 7bre 1792)
 1792
Box 3 Folder 24
Biblioteque Nationale N.A. Fr. 3258 fol 145-129, Reports to the Academy
 1786
Box 3 Folder 25
Museum D'Histoire Naturelle MS 1929 IV, I; Letter from Deperthuis to Lavoisier; 11 (or 14) July 1765
 July 1765
Box 3 Folder 26
Museum D'Histoire Naturalle MS 1929 IV, 2; Letter from Jaur to Lavoisier; 21 Dec. 1767
 December 21, 1767
Académie des Sciences
Box 3 Folder 34
Procés-verbaus of Academie
 1772-1783, 1949
Box 3 Folder 35
Films ordered from Académie des Sciences
 1969
Box 3 Folder 36
Académie des Sciences
 1968
Box 3 Folder 37
Items Missing from the Academie
 1965, 1982-1983
Box 3 Folder 38
Académie des Sciences
Scope and Contents
List of items to check at the Academy
Box 3 Folder 39
Académie des Sciences Order List
Box 3 Folder 40
"Physique Soloité des corps" MSS Ac. Sci. 1670 Bo
 1768
Box 3 Folder 41
Procès-Verbaux: Sept. 1774-Dec.1774
 September-December 1774
Box 3 Folder 42
Procès-Verbaux 1778
 1778
Box 3 Folder 43
Academy of Science #380 (excerpt): "Commencement d'un Traité de Chimie"
Box 3 Folder 58
Bibllioteque de L'Ecoles des Mines: Elitherian Mills Historical Library
 1785, 1973
Archives Nationales
Box 3 Folder 45
Documents at Archives Nationales
 1968
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Guerlac and Jacob Price
Box 3 Folder 46
Lavoisier's Legal Transactions; Archives Nationales M.C. XCIX rép. 6
 1782-1794
Biblioteque de Clermont-Ferrand
Box 3 Folder 47
Contents of Microfilm #43, Series II (1939)
 1939
Box 3 Folder 48
Letter from Lavoisier to d'Ormesson, 28 May 1788 (from microfilm #43, documents at La Caniére, 1939)
 1788, 1949
Box 3 Folder 49
Biblioteque de Clermont-Ferrand MS 337, fol 158; Letter from Durfont de Ciurac probably to Lavoisier (Mars 1773)
 March 1773
Biblioteque de l'Institut
Box 3 Folder 50
2 Letters: Lavoisier to Hennin; Biblioteque de l'Institut, Fonds Hennin MS 1266 folders 74-75
 1786-1787
Box 3 Folder 51
Letter: Commissioners of the National Treasury to Lessart; Biblioteque de l'Institut Collection Paltier-Laurent
 1791, 1989
Cornell University
Box 3 Folder 52
Booklet for "Antione Laurent Lavoisier: An Exhibition"
 1963
Box 3 Folder 53
Lavoisier Documents
Box 3 Folder 54
Lavoisier Collection
 1963, 1966
Box 3 Folder 55
Lavoisier documents of Duveen left to Cornell 1960-1962
 1960-1962
Box 3 Folder 56
Lavoisier Collection
Box 3 Folder 57
LaForic Collection
 1966-1967
Jozerand
Box 3 Folder 59
Inventory of Fonds Chabrol
Box 3 Folder 60
La Caniere letters, xerox copies from H.G. 1939 Notebook III
 1785-1788
Box 3 Folder 61
Documents at la Caniére (the lost letters); xeroxed from H.G. 1939 Notebook III
 1782
Box 3 Folder 62
Material en Elerge of Guellard -- rouds Chabrel
Box 3 Folder 63
Outline of "Système sur les élémens", August 1772
 August 1772
Box 3 Folder 64
Photos from Fouils Chabul
Box 3 Folder 65
317 Sur l'ais en la maliere du fen Note de jeunesse; Actually Académie des Sciences, Dossien 317 (missing)
Box 3 Folder 66
Paulze visit to England
Scope and Contents
Travel diary
Various Archives, Libraries, and Notes
Box 3 Folder 71
Lavoisier un Assignats & "Richesse Territoncale(?)"
Box 3 Folder 44
American Philosophical Society 1370 #18a; Announcement of meeting of the Maison Philanthropique (11 mars 1785) Liste Lavoisier as new member
 1785
Box 3 Folder 67
Lavoisier Letters; Oxford (Bodl.) MS Rigard 38 (transcribed by I.B. Cohen)
 April 1789
Box 3 Folder 68
Perpignan Registres -- Berthelot
 1902
Box 3 Folder 69
Reims -- Biblioteque Publique Collection P. Taslié XIX, No 21; Letter from Lavoisier et. al. to Dupont, entreposens du Tabac (14 Oct 1785)
 1785, 1962
Box 3 Folder 70
Lavoisier Letters -- Rouen
 1777-1792, 1963
Box 3 Folder 72
Coudercei(?) & Lagrame un Social Maiteuecter(?)
Box 3 Folder 73
Terre de Freschines -- R. de Vibraye; Ac. Sci.
Box 3 Folder 74
Mitouard Memoir on Distillation of Phosphorous (12 Dec 1772)
 December 12, 1772
Box 3 Folder 75
Ac. Sci. Lett. Et Arts-Lyon (corresponds to Ac. Sci. 72 B & C)
Box 3 Folder 76
Sur la calcination des métaux dans les vaisseaux fermés -- Rozier's Journal
 1774
Box 3 Folder 77
Lavoisier on affinity
Box 3 Folder 78
"Lavoisier's Concept of the Elements" chemistry colloq. Sept 13, 1973
 September 13, 1973
Box 3 Folder 79
"Memoire sur la nature du principe qui se combine avec les métaux…" (from Rozier's Journal)
 1775
Box 3 Folder 80
72-J. "Les experiences fauttes sur le deamant…"
Box 3 Folder 81
1308-D "Sur l'acide du phosphore"
Box 3 Folder 82
Notes on "Nomenclature Méthodique"
Box 3 Folder 83
Traité Eleunaicui(?) du Chimie Noisan(?)
Box 3 Folder 84
Guyion de Norveau
Box 3 Folder 85
Gaspard Monge
Box 3 Folder 86
Volía on Elect. of Evaporation
Box 3 Folder 87
Volía and Lavoisier (& Laflere)
Box 3 Folder 88
Oxides of Nitrogen
Box 3 Folder 89
Lavoisier Memoire Abstrarid(?) Réflexions sur le philogistique
Box 3 Folder 90
Laplace on Decomposition of Water
Box 3 Folder 91
Correspondence regarding Lavoisier's arrest and death and copies of articles on Lavoisier
 1957-1963
Scope and Contents
Folder was labelled "Cartesian in England".
Box 3 Folder 92
National Science Foundation Research Proposal, Memorandum on Lavoisier Manuscripts, "Development of Analytical Chemistry in the 18th Century" by F. Greenaway.
Box 3 Folder 93
III. Diamond Experiment
Box 3 Folder 94
Lavoisier's own summaries of intended research and recapitulation of his accomplishments.
Box 3 Folder 95
Hand-written notes
Photostat Negatives (with original numbering)
Box 4 Folder 2
Mémoire: Lavoisier's claim
Box 4 Folder 3
Unlablelled: List of Names
Box 4 Folder 4
Dénonciation
Box 4 Folder 5
Troisieme Partie
Box 4 Folder 6
Essays on Atmospheric Air, Constitution of the Acids
 1783
Box 4 Folder 7
Richesse Territoriale: orig.
 1791
Box 4 Folder 8
Salin et Potasse
 1789
Box 4 Folder 9
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 1793
Box 4 Folder 10
L'Instruction Publique 8vo
Box 4 Folder 11
Mémoire de Chimie: 1st paper on calorique
Box 4 Folder 12
Extrait des Registres…Projet d'un nouvel Hôtel-Dieu
 1786
Box 4 Folder 13
Mémoires de Chimie: Tome Premier
Box 4 Folder 14
Richesse Territoriale reprint
 1791
Box 4 Folder 15
Rapport sur la Caisse D'escompte
Box 4 Folder 16
Réflexions sur L'instruction Publique
Box 4 Folder 17
Caisse d'Escompte
 1790
Box 4 Folder 18
Commissaires Réviseurs
Box 4 Folder 19
Oevres vol. II
 1862
Box 4 Folder 20
L'etat des Finances
 1791
Box 4 Folder 21
Traité: 1st ed. 2nd issue
 1789
Box 4 Folder 22
Tableau des Substances Simples
Box 4 Folder 23
Blois
 1789
Box 4 Folder 24
Réponse Dénonciation
Box 4 Folder 25
Journal Polytype
 1786
Box 4 Folder 26
Journal Polytype
 1786
Box 4 Folder 27
Méthod: St. John trause
 1788
Box 4 Folder 28
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 1802
Box 4 Folder 29
Journal Polytype
 1786
Box 4 Folder 30
Kirwan
 1788
Box 4 Folder 31
Traité
 1805
Box 4 Folder 33
Rapport fait Al'Académie des Sciences sur la Machine Aérostatique
 1784
Box 4 Folder 34
Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin…with the examination of the Animal Magnetism
 1785
Box 4 Folder 35
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 December 12, 1799
Box 4 Folder 36
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 1796
Box 4 Folder 37
Traité: "Seconde èdition" Second de Boiste issue
 1793
Box 4 Folder 38
Rapport des Commissaires…du L'Examen du Magnétisme Animal
 1784
Box 4 Folder 39
Observations et Mémoires sur La Physique, sur L'Histoire Naturelle, et sur les Arts et Métiers
 1781
Box 4 Folder 40
Recueil…Salpêtre
 1776
Box 4 Folder 41
Rapport des Commissaires…du L'Examen du Magnétisme Animal
 1784
Box 4 Folder 42
10c, 1p: Exposé des Expériences…du Magnétisme Anima
 September 4, 1784
Box 4 Folder 43
A Translation of the Table of Chemical Nomenclature
 1799
Box 4 Folder 44
Vocabulary and Tables of the Old and New Nomenclatures
 1796
Box 4 Folder 45
Traité: second ed.
 1789
Box 4 Folder 46
Essai Comparatif de l'Imprimerie ordinaire à l'Imprimerie Polytype
Box 4 Folder 47
Etablissement des Nitriéres
 1776
Box 4 Folder 48
Traité: "Troisième éd."
 1801
Box 4 Folder 49
Opuscules 1st ed.
 1774
Box 4 Folder 50
Méthode: second printing
 1787
Box 4 Folder 51
Annales De Chimie; ou Recueil de Mémoires
 1789
Box 4 Folder 52
Traité
 1804
Box 4 Folder 53
Traité: "Seconde èdition" Chardon
 1793
Box 4 Folder 54
Histoire de L'Académie
 1789
Box 4 Folder 55
Opuscules
 1801
Box 4 Folder 56
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 1790
Box 4 Folder 57
Histoire de L'Académie
 1780
Box 4 Folder 58
Instruction sur le Parcage des Bétes à laine
Box 4 Folder 59
Oxygen definition
Box 4 Folder 60
Essays Physical and Chemical
 1776
Box 4 Folder 61
Traité: nouvelle ed.
 1789
Box 4 Folder 62
Catalogue de Livres…de feu Madame Lavoisier
 1836
Box 4 Folder 63
Grondbeginselen der Scheikunde
 1800
Box 4 Folder 64
Méthode 1st ed.
 1787
Box 4 Folder 65
Traité
 1805
Box 4 Folder 66
Opuscules
 1801
Box 4 Folder 67
Traité: 1st ed. 1st issue
 1789
Box 4 Folder 68
Trattato Elementare di Chimica
Box 4 Folder 69
Footnote on mercure précipité per se
 1775
Box 4 Folder 70
Histoire (last page of the bibliography)
Box 4 Folder 71
Etablissement des Nitrières: reissue An II
Box 4 Folder 72
Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order
 1806
Box 4 Folder 73
Journal Polytype
 1786
Box 4 Folder 74
Gypsum paper
Box 4 Folder 75
Memoires de Mathématique
 1768
Box 4 Folder 76
Traité: Planche XI
Box 4 Folder 77
Traité: Planche XI
Box 4 Folder 78-100
Lavoisier illustration
Box 4 Folder 101
Observations et Mémoires sur La Physique, sur L'Histoire Naturelle, et sur les Arts (title page)
 1785
Box 4 Folder 102
Lavoisier bust
Box 4 Folder 103
Portrait of Mr. and Mme. Lavoisier
Box 4 Folder 104-106
Lavoisier illustration
Box 4 Folder 107
bookplate
Box 4 Folder 108
signature
Box 4 Folder 109-114
Lavoisier illustration
Box 4 Folder 115-123
Various Memorials Commemorating Lavoisier
Box 4 Folder 124
Mercure de France Dedie au Roi
 1769
Lavoisier Reprints
By Author
Box 4 Folder 1
Loose Manuscripts -- Authors A-De
 1957-1972
Box 4 Folder 2
Loose Manuscripts -- Denis Duveen
 1952-1960
Scope and Contents
Most with Herbert Klickstein
Box 4 Folder 3
Loose Manuscripts -- Authors F-M
 1935, 1950-1972
Box 4 Folder 4
Loose Manuscripts -- Siegfried, unlabeled "Revue D'Histoire des Sciences"
 1968
Box 4 Folder 5
Smeaton
 1957-1963
Box 4 Folder 6
Loose Manuscripts II -- Authors B-K
 1895, 1941-1952
Box 4 Folder 7
Loose Manuscripts II -- Authors M-S
 1948-1972
Scope and Contents
Includes unlabeled "Revue D'Histoire des Sciences"
Box 4 Folder 8
The Svedberg and Molecular Reality by Milton Kerker
Box 4 Folder 9
Lavoisier and the Caloric Theory by Robert J. Morris
Box 4 Folder 10
The Chemistry of Salts in the Eighteenth Century by Frederic L. Holmes
Box 4 Folder 11
Venel and the Study of Chemisty at Montpellier
Box 4 Folder 12
Loose Manuscripts -- Guichard, Homes, Perrin
 1937, 1970
Box 4 Folder 13
Photocopies/Facsimiles -- McKie & Daumas, Lusk, Mark
 undated, 1960
Precursors & Contemporaries
Box 4 Folder 14
Bergman Correspondence
 1959, undated
Box 4 Folder 15
Berthollet
 May 1946, undated
Box 4 Folder 16
Black, Joseph
 1935-1936, 1956-1957
Box 4 Folder 17
Boerhaave, H.
 1952-1959
Box 4 Folder 18
Carra: Examen physique
Box 4 Folder 19
Fourcroy
 1959
Box 4 Folder 20
Guettard
Box 4 Folder 21
Guyion de Morveau
 1957
Box 4 Folder 22
Landriani
Box 4 Folder 23
Lewis, William
Box 4 Folder 24
Lomonosov
 1962-1963
Box 4 Folder 25
Macques, P.J.
Box 4 Folder 26
Magellus Letters
Box 4 Folder 27
Margraff
 1959
Box 4 Folder 28
Meusnier and assignats
Box 4 Folder 29
Joseph Priestley
 1938, 1956, 1964
Box 4 Folder 30
Letter from (Wedgwood ?) to (Priestley) 2 Sept 1791
Box 4 Folder 31
Romé de L'Isle
Box 4 Folder 32
Rouelle, G.F.
Box 4 Folder 33
Rozier Letters
Box 4 Folder 34
Rutterford, Daniel
 August 1935
Box 4 Folder 35
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm
 1973
Topical Background
Box 4 Folder 36
Enciclopedia di Chimica
 1903
Box 4 Folder 37
Grant Proposals
 1961, undated
Box 4 Folder 38
Manuscripts and Correspondence -- Crosland
 1971, undated
Box 4 Folder 39
Traite Élémentaire de Chimie
Scope and Contents
Folder with articles and Lavoisier documents
Box 4 Folder 40
Loose Manuscripts - alphabetical by author
 1927, 1943-1963, 1972
Bibliographic Notecards
Box 3
Index to the Ouvres (Name & Subject Index)
Box 3
Secondary Bibliography Part I (Predecessors & contemporaries)
Box 3
Secondary Bibliography Part II (Topical/Subject)
Box 3
Raw material for the Lavoisier Chronology
Box 7
File of 18th c. scientists
Box 7
File of 18th c. scientists
Box 7
File of 18th c. scientists
Box 7
(in box with) File of 18th c. scientists
Box 7
Some raw material for Kardex. (Leslie B.)
Box 8
Raw material for the Lavoisier Chronology
Box 8
Secondary Bibliography - Part III
Scope and Contents
Secondary literature on Lavoisier. Arranged chronologically- raw material for MSS BD Lavoisier QD L41 G931+
Box 8
Unlabelled Bibliographic Cards
Series I. Carl Perrin
Microfilm
Box 5
Academie des Sciences Procio-verbaux
 1776-1788
Box 5
Guyton de Morveau Digressions Académique
Box 5
Fourcroy article: Chimie Encyclopedie Methodique
Box 5
Source: Musée Nationale D'Histoire Naturelle -- "Observations de M. Trebia Sur l'enteueui des montagnes", Schelle's "Traité chimique de l'air et du feu
Box 5
Muséum Nationale diffustoere Naturelle MS 1990-1994
Box 5
J.B.M. Bucquet "Precis des leçons de chimie de feu M. Bucquet"
Box 5
Genève: Senelrei "Système pour la combustion" Mme Lavoisier Letter to Samsure
Box 5
PS 77 7229: B. Higgins Minutes for the Society…, Nicholson Diet. Of Chem., Opuscoli Scelti Vol.s 14 & 18
Box 5
PS 77 235: Croustedt (Magellan) "System of Miuer.", Henry (ed.) "Essay on Atom. Air"
Box 5
Monsieur C Perrin: Hotel du Pas. de Calais 59 sur des Saints Peres, Paris
Scope and Contents
1260 1st edition d'un cours de Chimie, 93 Opeiscales plup. Et chem. De M. Lavoisier
Box 5
James Keir: A Tretise on the various kinds of permanent elastic fluids on gases, A. Crawford: E. and O. on animal heat
 1779
Box 5
Envelope of microfilm: Beúhollet "Obs. Sur l'aír" (1776), Bucquet lectures
Box 5
Envelope of microfilm
Box 5
Roll of Microfilm: Guyton de Morveau "Defense de la volatilité du phlogistique…"
Computer Disks and Punch Cards
Computer Disks
Box 5 4" Floppy FD-63-64
Unlabelled disks
Box 5 4" Floppy FD-65
lavmsst.ask
Scope and Contents
Lavoisier Manuscripts using "ask" a database management system
Box 5 4" Floppy FD-66
more lamsst.ask
Box 5 4" Floppy FD-67
Program Disk and duplicate files
Box 5
askSam (Seaside Software) user manual
Punch Cards
Box 5
Lavoisier Documents Files: Drawer #1, Bundle #1 of 4
Box 5
Lavoisier Documents File: Drawer #1, Bundle #2 of 4
Scope and Contents
Biblioteque de l'Institut; Biblioteque Nationale; American Philosophical Society; letters from, to, about, and unrelated to Lavoisier; Ellner - offenback coll.;
Box 5
Lavoisier Documents File: Drawer #1, Bundle #3 of 4
Scope and Contents
Lavoisier's major works, Minor separate works
Box 5
Lavoisier Documents File: Drawer #1, Bundle #4 of 4
Scope and Contents
Biblioteque Mun. d'Orlians
Box 5
Lavoisier Documents File: Miscellaneous Bundle
Scope and Contents
Separated out and worked on by C. Perrin, problems in "Ask Sam" data base
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #1 of 6
Scope and Contents
Archives Nationale
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #2 of 6
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #3 of 6
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #4 of 6
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #5 of 6
Box 5
Lavoisier Document File: Drawer #2, Bundle #6 of 6
Scope and Contents
Clement-Farranol
Research materials relating to Lavoisier Bibliography
Scope and Contents
Secondary literature, correspondence, drafts, xeroxes, etc.
Box 6 Folder 1
Bibliography Template/Code
Box 6 Folder 2
Keysort Classification Code for Lavoisier Documents (with list of repositories)
Box 6 Folder 3
Lavoisier Project
Scope and Contents
APS grant
Box 6 Folder 4
Members of Academy of Sciences (c. 1785)
Scope and Contents
Election of Associés etiangeis
Box 6 Folder 5
Calendar Concordances
Scope and Contents
I. Tableau de Condordance des Calendueís Gregonéus et Republicain; II. Perpetual Calendar [Including Year Letters 1582-1800]
Box 6 Folder 6
Guide to "Encyclopédie Méthodique"
Box 6 Folder 7
Lavoisier: Venel & Rouelle
Scope and Contents
Methodoligical & Conceptual "Roots of Lavoisier's Work"
Box 6 Folder 8
Lavoisier's Chemistry in the New World
Scope and Contents
A Study in the Transmission of European Science
Box 6 Folder 9
Early Ideas on Chemical Role of Air
Box 6 Folder 10
Origins of Lavoisier's Program
Box 6 Folder 11
Imponderable Fluids
Box 6 Folder 12
Detonation of Nitre
Box 6 Folder 13
Contrasts in Style -- Priestley & Lavoisier
Box 6 Folder 14
Mme Lavoisier
Box 6 Folder 15
Lavoisier's Proto-Traité
Box 6 Folder 16
Encyclopédie/Nouveau Dictionnaire
Scope and Contents
Source Material [18 Reference Works]; 1) Excerpts from "Encyclopedie", 2) Excerpts from "Neuveau Dictionnaire françois"
Box 6 Folder 17
Schufle on Bergman to Scheele
Box 6 Folder 18
Lavoisier & Chem. Affinity
Box 6 Folder 19
Chemistry as Peer of Physics
Box 6 Folder 20
Napolean & Newton
Box 6 Folder 21
Miscellaneous papers: bibliography, errata, Dexter Award article
Box 6 Folder 22
Letter from Lavoisier To Franklin [2 February 1790] & Franklin Letter to Mme Lavoisier [23 October 1788]
Box 6 Folder 23
Black and Lavoisier
Box 6 Folder 24
Lavoisier-Laplace
Box 6 Folder 25
Definition of Chemistry (timeline)
Box 6 Folder 26
Culleir and Affinity
Box 6 Folder 27
Georse Martine & Boerhaave
Box 6 Folder 28
Introductiontis Memoir on Hear
Box 6 Folder 29
Work in Geneva
Box 6 Folder 30
York University Folders
Box 6 Folder 31
Lists of Other Collections
Scope and Contents
Microfilms des Papiers Lavoisier déposés à l'Académie des Sciences reproduisant des documents des Archives de Chabrol; Inventory of Fonds Chabrol; Récentes acquisitions Lavoisier
Box 6 Folder 32
Lavoisier Letters: "Catalogue Préliminaire", R. Fric
 1949
Scope and Contents
Arch Lnt Hert Sci 2(1949) 619-670 (copy)
Box 6 Folder 33
Inventory of Fonds Chabrol
Box 6 Folder 34
Correspondence de Lavoisier: Lis of letters sur the profeded volume for 1787
 1787
Box 6 Folder 35
Correspondence de Lavoisier: Index of Proper Names; Chronological List (Fascicles I-III)
Box 6 Folder 36
Sources for the Chemical Revolution
Box 6 Folder 37
Documents to Order from the Academy
Box 6 Folder 38
Documents on Correspondence
Scope and Contents
Lists, photocopies from Histoire de L'académie des Sciences and La Correspondance du Duc de la Rochefoucauld D'Enville et de Georges Louis le Sage
Box 6 Folder 39
Lavoisier Letters at Archives Nationales
 1949
Scope and Contents
confiscated during revolution and publ. by D. Mckie; Notes and Records 7(1949) 1-41
Box 6 Folder 40
Chabral (Carton Grimaux) Letters
Box 6 Folder 41
Correspondence and copies of Documents
Scope and Contents
Package from Musée Lecoq to Carl Perrin
Box 6 Folder 42
Notes on Chemists
Box 6 Folder 43
Correspondence: Guyton de Morveau and Tingy
 1974
Box 6 Folder 44
Notes: Letters and articles to photocopy
Box 6 Folder 45
Bibl. Clermont-Ferrand Coll. de Chayelles MS 338; Letter: Landriani to Mme Lavoisier
Box 6 Folder 46
Titres Honorifiques de Tingry (2 letters)
 1786/1978
Box 6 Folder 47
Landriani Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 48
Magellan Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 49
Ms. Tingry (no 34 à 38, no 4 f 47)
 1978
Box 6 Folder 50
Lettres à J. Senebier
 1783-1784/1978
Scope and Contents
Court de Gébelin, La Blancherie (4 letters en entier), Mongez le jenne; MS suppl. 1039
Box 6 Folder 51
Correspondence de Senelier et Spallangani
 1790
Box 6 Folder 52
Prospectus d'un cours (gratuit) de chymie théorique et expérimentale (copies)
Box 6 Folder 53
Lettres à Senebier
 1776-1791/1978
Scope and Contents
Priestly (5 letters), Rozier (1 letter), Scopoli (1 letter), Viano (3 letters)
Box 6 Folder 54
P.F. Tingry, Cours de Chymie
 1788/1978
Box 6 Folder 55
Papiers Gosse
 1978
Box 6 Folder 56
Envelope for Photocopies from Genève Bibliothèque publique
 1978
Box 6 Folder 57
Bibliographies/Lists of Other Collections
Box 6 Folder 58
Senebier/Geneva Group
Box 6 Folder 59-60
Letters to Senebier (1 & 2)
Series III. Research Notebooks (Cataloged Separately)
4710 Bd. Ms. 1: Notebooks 1-5
4710 Bd. Ms. 2: Notebooks 6-11
4710 Bd. Ms. 3: Notebooks 12-20
4710 Bd. Ms. 4: Notebooks 21-28
4710 Bd. Ms. 5: Notebooks 29-34
4710 Bd. Ms. 6: Notebooks 35-44
4710 Bd. Ms. 6: Notebooks 45-49
4710 Bd. Ms. 8: Notebooks 50-58
4710 Bd. Ms. 9: Notebooks 59-64
4710 Bd. Ms. 10: Notebooks 65-70
4710 Bd. Ms. 11: Notebooks 71-74