Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau correspondence

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 4746

Scope and content

Letters to and from Guyton de Morveau, mainly on scientific subjects, together with contemporary portrait prints of two of the correspondents (Berthollet and Gay-Lussac) and later typescript notes and correspondence concerning this collection by William Smeaton and others. Correspondents include Claude-Louis Berthollet, Jean-Claude de la Métherie, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond; Antoine-François, comte de Fourcroy; Thomas Beddoes, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Richard Kirwan, Pierre Joseph Macquer, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Placide-Joseph Panckoucke, Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Étienne-Hyacinthe de Ratte, Jean Baptiste Louis de Romé de L'Isle, Thomas Wedgwood, and others.

Dates

1774-1810.

Creator

Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard, 1737-1816. (Person)
La Métherie, Jean-Claude de, 1743-1817. (Person)
Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819. (Person)
Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822. (Person)
Fourcroy, Antoine-François de, comte, 1755-1809. (Person)
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850. (Person)
Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812. (Person)
Macquer, Pierre Joseph, 1718-1784. (Person)
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807. (Person)
Panckoucke, Placide-Joseph, 1740-1800. (Person)
Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813. (Person)
Ratte, Étienne-Hyacinthe de, 1722-1805. (Person)
Romé de L'Isle, Jean Baptiste Louis de, 1736-1790. (Person)
Wedgwood, Thomas, 1771-1805. (Person)
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808 (Person)
Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 (Person)
La Rochefoucauld d'Enville, Louis-Alexandre, duc de, 1743-1792 (Person)

Language of Material

In French.

Biographical / Historical

French chemist and government official. He collaborated closely with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787), contributed to the Encyclopédie méthodique, worked on industrial applications of chemistry, and proposed the use of "muriatic acid gas" (which involved hydrogen chloride) for fumigation of buildings. Together with Hugues Maret and Jean François Durande, he also published the Élémens de chymie théorique et pratique (1776-1777).