oa The Platinum Notebooks of William Hyde Wollaston

References

1. Letter from W. H. Wollaston to H. Hasted, November 16, 1801. Copies of the Wollaston/Hasted letters are in University College Library, London; the originals, once in possession of Wollaston‘s descendants, can no longer be found
2. (a) A history of platinum, and Wollaston‘s place in it, has been admirably and capably compiled; see Donald McDonald,“A History of Platinum”, Johnson Matthey, London, 1960 (b) A brief assessment of Wollaston‘s platinum researches has also been published by the same author: D. McDonald, “William Hyde Wollaston; the Production of Malleable Platinum”, Platinum Metals Rev., 1966, 10, (3), 101–106 [Google Scholar]
3. L. F. Gilbert, “W. H. Wollaston MSS at Cambridge”, Notes and Records Roy. Soc. Lond., 1952, 9, 311–332 [Google Scholar]
4. Ibid., 318
5. Wollaston MSS, Cambridge University Library, letter enclosed in notebook F
6. Wollaston MSS, note enclosed in notebook F
7. Op. cit. (Ref. 2(a)), 136
8. Wollaston MSS, notebook H, 57. The Tennant referred to is Charles Tennant, a Glasgow acid manufacturer who purchased four platinum boilers from Wollaston
9. Wollaston MSS, notebook I
10. Op. cit. (Ref. 3), 319
11. Wollaston MSS, notebook H, 4