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Sender: Brauner, Bohuslav
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 14
Date(s): 13 Aug 1888 - 11 Jul 1930; 1 n.d.
Location: SC MS 416/29, 36, 233, 243, 292, 324, 333-337, 339, 350, 406
Note: 1) Not attending British Association at Bath; visit of Professor
Carrington Bolton to him at Prague; work of F.W. Ostwald, D.I.
Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer; physics and chemistry; his own work and holiday in Bohemia. MS. 4 ff. 2) Regrets that AS did not attend his lecture at Chemical Society in London; encourages AS in his work. MS. 2 ff. 3) Personal; German and English education; possibility of meeting at St Andrew's; research on flame; nature of elements. MS. 2 ff. 4) Seeks AS's criticism of a communication he sent to the Editor of "Nature"; requests advice on a suitable text for lectures on physical chemistry. MS. 2 ff. 5) Cost of postage and reflections on late war; work on isotopes and two letters to "Nature"; personal and family affairs. MS. 2 ff. 6) Appreciation of T.E. Thorpe; personal news. MS. Post-script dated 23 March 1925. 7) Personal news; encloses an article for "Nature", criticising H.B. Baker and H.T. Riley on the atomic weight of Ag [cf. "Trans. Chem. Soc." (1926), p.2510], and asks AS to commend it to the Editor. MS. 8) Agrees to AS correcting the English of his paper
(cf. 333) and returning it for approval. MS. 2 ff. 9) Thanks AS for his corrections; has sent the paper to "Nature" with a suitable flattering letter. MS. 10) AS has been
understamping letters; begs AS to commend his paper to "Nature". MS. 11) Problem of atomic weights; recent advances in physics (A. Einstein and M. Planck); the Church and evolution; astronomy; his foreign friends. MS. 4 ff. 12) Encloses a note for "Nature"; requests AS to examine it and forward it. MS. 13) Reviews his work on atomic weights and valency; opinions of F.A. Kekule, A.W.H. Kolbe and E. Frankland; exchange of views with Sir Oliver Lodge in "Nature"; encloses two papers, one on D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. 14) His journey to Russia to meet D.I. Mendeleev. MS. 2 ff. Latter part of letter; dated after 20 Sep 1883.