Raphael Meldola: the Essex Field Club papers at Imperial College
3 Meldola discovered the first oxazine dyestuff in 1879
4 Thompson. Silvanus Phillips (1851-1916) Physicist
5 Armstrong, Henry Edward (1848-1937) Chemist and Educationist
6 The Royal College of Chemistry was established in 1845 in Hanover Square, London, the result of a
private enterprise to found a college to aid industry, it transferred to Oxford Street in 1848. In 1853 the
College was incorporated with the Government School of Mines and of Science Applied to the Aits,
effectively becoming its department of chemistry. Chemistry was one of the departments to be
transferred to South Kensington in 1872. The Royal College of Science was formed in 1881 by merging
some courses of the Royal School of Mines with the teaching of other science subjects at South
Kensington. In 1907 the Royal School of Mines and the Royal College of Science were incorporated in
the Royal Charter of Imperial College of Science and Technology.
7 Lord, John Keast (1819-1872) Naturalist
SA full list of his publications can be found in MARCHANT, J. (ed). (1916) Raphael Meldola:
reminiscences of his worth and work hy those who knew him together with a chronological list of his
publications MDCCLXIX - MDCCCCXV, Williams and Norgate, London, p. 177-225
9 The livery companies set up the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical
Education (C&GLI) in 1878 through their involvement with training craftsmen. One of their aims was
to create a Central Institution in London to improve the training of craftsmen. As they were initially
unable to find a site for the Institution, Finsbury Technical College was established in 1878. The
College closed in 1926. Papers held at Imperial College London.
10 Other than reference to his work and publications with Meldola little information can be found on
Streatfield
11 Perkin, Sir William Henry (1838-1907) Knight Chemist
12 Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892) Entomologist
13 South, Richard (1846-1932) Entomologist. Author of The moths of the British Isles and The butterflies of
the British Isles
14 Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata (Cl.) Large Twin-spot Carpet
15 Archives & Special Collections, Imperial College London, Meldola Papers, MLDA00737
16 Weir, John Jenner (1822-1894) Naturalist
17 Archives & Special Collections, Imperial College London, Meldola Papers, MLDA01971
1S Grey, Thomas de (1843-1919) 6th Baron Walsingham, Zoologist
19 Saunders, Sir Sydney Smith (1809-1884) Knight Diplomat
20 Balfour, Alice Blanche (d 1936) Author. Sister of 1 st Earl of Balfour (PM)
21 Boulger, George Simonds (1853-1922) Botanist. President of Essex Field Club 1883 - 1884
22 Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1844-1925) Entomologist
23 Distant, W. L. (fi 1890) Entomologist
24 Evershed, John (1864-1956) Astronomer
25 Fletcher, Sir Lazarus (1854-1921) Knight Mineralogist. Director of Natural History Museum
2fi Hanbury, Frederick Janson (1851-1938) Businessman, Botanist and Entomologist
27 Holmes, Edward Morrell (1843-1930) Botanist and Pharmacologist
28 Browne, Alfred John Jukes- (1851-1914) Geologist
29 Longstaff, George Blundell (1849-1921) Physician Social Reformer and Entomologist
30Taylor,J.M.B.(fI 1910)
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