Analysis Book

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 1418
  • Dates of Creation
      1840s
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      206 x 130mm. 1 volume, foliated 1-899. Medium: Paper. Binding: marbled boards, leather spine. the spine cover has detached.

Scope and Content

Contents: A volume containing Forbes' qualitative and qualitative analyses of miscellaneous chemical compounds and natural products. The volume is not dated, but references to works cited in it indicate that it might have been compiled in the 1840s, as does the presence of notes of lectures attended by Forbes at the University of Edinburgh. It is not clear whether Forbes undertook this analytical work when he was at Edinburgh or in the period after he left the University. The purpose for which these analyses was undertaken is unclear. Much of the volume is unused,and folios between 297 and 334 have been removed.

  • 7-43 Animal Fluids, 1845 [lectures?]
  • Albumen - Qualitative
  • Alcohol - content of various beverages
  • 63-5, 71 Aluminium
  • 75-79 Ammonium
  • 109 Barium, Basalt.
  • 113 Bismuth
  • 115-137 Blood, Quantitative analysis
  • 153-159 Blood, General Chemistry
  • 167-173 Blood, Qualitative analysis
  • 183 Blood, Quantitative Analysis
  • 199 Brucine
  • 203 Blood, references
  • 219 Cadmium
  • 221 Calaguala, Quantitative Analysis
  • 225 Calcium, Quantitative Analysis
  • 229 Calcium
  • 237 Carbon - preparation of charcoal.
  • 241 Carbon, Carbonic acid Quantitative Analysis
  • 245 Chromium, Quantitative Analysis
  • 249 Chromium, Prep.
  • 253 Chyle,Quantitative Analysis
  • 257 Cinchomine, Qualitative
  • 259 Clay, Quantitative
  • 261-3 Cobalt, Quantitative
  • 269 Cobalt, Qualitative
  • 273 Concretions, Quantitative
  • 277-279 Concretions, Intestinal, Quantitative
  • 285-287 Copper, Quantitative
  • 293 Copper Qualitative
  • 353 Dimorphism
  • 365-366 Elements
  • 369 Classification of elements
  • 377-397 Extractive matters, Qualitative
  • 401 Drawing of a furnace
  • 409 Gunpowder, Quantitative
  • 417 Hippinic Acid, Quantitative
  • 425 Iodine, Qualitative
  • 427 Iron, Qualitative
  • 433 Iron, Quantitative
  • 457 Lead, Qualitative
  • 461-463 Lead, Quantitative
  • 469 Liver, Qualitative
  • 473 Liver, Quantitative
  • 477 Lungs, Qualitative
  • 481 "L" referees
  • 493 Magnesium, Quantitative
  • 497 Magnesium, Qualitative
  • 501 Manganese, Quantitative
  • 505 Manganese, Qualitative
  • 509-511 Mannite, Quantitative
  • 517 Meconium, Quantitative
  • 521 Mercury, Qualitative
  • 525 Metals, Classification according to the action of K Cy [prob. potassium cyanide].
  • 529, 533 Mercury
  • 537 Milk (Cows), Quantitative
  • 541 Morphine, Qualitative
  • 545 "M" references
  • 561 Oils, essential, Suphuretted
  • 573 Notes on a course of lectures on natural philosophy, professor James Forbes, Edinburgh [Forbes [no relation], 1809-1868, professor of natural philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 1833-1860].
  • 577-581 Physiology, Todd and Borman, 1848
  • 589 Platinum
  • 593 Protein
  • 596 Protein, Quantitative
  • 599 Pyrograttic Acid, Qualitative
  • 603 Drawing of a Pyrometer
  • 615 Quinine, Qualitative
  • 623 Racemic Acid
  • 627 Rye (Ergot)
  • 635-641 Saliva
  • 651 Silver, Quantitative
  • 655 Silver, Predations
  • 659 Sodium, Quantitative
  • 663-667 Spiders and their Webs./
  • 675 Strychnine, Qualitative
  • 679 Strontium, Qualitative
  • 683 Sugar, Quantitative
  • 691 Sugar, Qualitative
  • 695 "S" references
  • 699Theine or Caffeine, Qualitative
  • 731 Thyroid fluid, Quantitative
  • 737 Tubercles, Quantitative
  • 761 Uranium, Qualitative
  • 763-5 Urea, Quantitative
  • 771 Urine, Quantitative
  • 775 Urine Qualitative
  • 825 Xanthine
  • 829 Zinc Qualitative
  • 833-835 Zinc, Qualitative