Chemical report on the mode of detecting vegetable substances mixed with coffee, for the purpose of adulteration. / (Tho. Graham F.R.S., John Stenhouse R.S., Dugald Campbell FLS).

Title

Chemical report on the mode of detecting vegetable substances mixed with coffee, for the purpose of adulteration. / (Tho. Graham F.R.S., John Stenhouse R.S., Dugald Campbell FLS).

Record type

Book

Shelf mark

Botanical Tracts I

Author or creator

Campbell, Dugald (1818-1882)

Graham, Thomas (1805-1869)

Stenhouse, John (1809-1880)

Analytical Sanitary Commission

Physical description

Pp. [i] illus. 33.5 cm.

Is part of

Botanical Tracts 1

Description

Manuscript report, prefaced by letter of presentation, dated from University College 24 December 1852, to John Wood, Chairman of Inland Revenue, who had commissioned the research.

From 1851 to 1854, the medical journal The Lancet convened an Analytical Sanitary Commission to investigate the problem of adulteration of food. The adulteration of coffee by admixture of chicory was one of the issues addressed; Arthur Hill Hassall, with the assistance of Henry Letheby, conducted analyses of various commercial products, and the results were published in The Lancet. John Lindley, Sir William Jackson Hooker, William Benjamin Carpenter, and others were asked to carry out independent tests, and their reports are bound in this volume of the Botanical Tracts.

John Lindley's copy.

Copyright

UCL Library Special Collections

Credit Line

UCL Library Special Collections / RHS Lindley Collections

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Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)