All Items 2 Collection 2 Archives & Special Collections 2 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Contributor 2 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 1 Location 2 Amherst 1 Massachusetts 1 Topic 5 American poetry 1 Chemistry 1 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. 1 Study and teaching (Higher) 1 Women poets, American 1 Part Of 2 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 1 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Genre 2 Lecture notes 1 Poems 1 mods.shelfLocator 1 Box 10 Folder 7 2 Edward Hitchcock classroom lecture notes, "Mercury" Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 Chemistry lecture notes by Edward Hitchcock primarily discussing certain metals and relating chemistry to the mineral, vegetable, and animal. Hitchcock focuses on mercury, silver, gold, and platinum, listing experiments to perform with these materials, alloys that can be made with them, and different solvents and chlorides of these metals. He then discusses analyzing the chemical makeup of minerals, plant matter, and animal. Topics covered include mineral waters, vegetable gums and resins, sugar, alcohol, putrefaction, gelatin, albumen, urea, and blood, among others. Edward Hitchcock classroom lecture notes, "Mercury" We like March his shoes are purple Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 We like March his shoes are purple
