Chemist . Professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1802–13. President of the Royal Society, 1820–7. FRS 1803.
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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 1,3,5,6,10
Darwin Correspondence Project Database. http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/namedef-1258/ (letter no. namedef-1258; accessed 18 March 2010)