Distillation -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Scope and content The notebook itself is written in two and possibly three different hands, none of them identified. The first section is an excerpt of which comprises the first thirty-eight pages of the text copied from the work of three eminent chemists, Jean d'Arcet, Jean Pelletier and Claude-Hugues Lelievre. This report, titled 2Rapport sur la fabrication des savons sur leurs différentes espèces, suivant la nature des huiles et des alkalis qu'on emploie pour les fabriquer3 was...

Scope and content

The notebook contains observations of several hundred experiments dealing with topics such as the solubility of salts, sulfates and other compounds, fermentation, tobacco, and distillation of alcohols. Of special interest are the notes in Lussac's hand dated 1824 "dissolution d' indigo" and dealing with the standardization of indigo solutions. In the published paper on this topic Lussac first coined the terms "pipettes" and "burettes" and page 119 shows his drawing of a pipette.