Notes from the Oesper Collections

Snap-shot of Thomas Evans (standing on right) found tucked in the pages of the 1906 edition of Alexander Smith’s Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry.

Notes from the Oesper Collections are occasional publications highlighting items and topics of interest in the Oesper Collections in the History of Chemistry.   The first three issues cover topics including:

• the discovery of previously unknown photographs of notable American chemists,
• Ralph Edward Oesper’s 1947 introduction of an oxidimetric standard now known as “Oesper’s Salt,”
• and the recent acquisition of a rare 30-cell Craig Countercurrent Distribution Train, driven across country for donation to the Oesper Collections by a former student of Dr. Lyman C. Craig.