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XIII.—Life and Chemical Work of Archibald Scott Couper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Richard Anschütz
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University of Bonn
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Archibald Scott Couper is one of the most singular appearances in the history of the development of Organic Chemistry in the nineteenth century. He comes on the scene at the time—the end of the ‘fifties—when the valency theory began its victorious entrance into our science.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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page 194 note * In the Comptes rendus the name is given as A. Couper; in the Annales de chim. et de phys. as A. S. Couper.

page 195 note * cccxlvi. 291 (1906)

page 196 note * The house, which is in the street, is now converted into shops, and the garden partly covered with buildings.

page 196 note † Hamilton, Alexander, M.A. 1851, D.D. 1872; United Presbyterian minister, Kilmarnock 1855–1872, Brighton 1871–1896. Died at Brighton, 1902Google Scholar.

page 196 note ‡ Afterwards Geheimrat, and director of the engineering works in connection with the navigation of the Rhine.

page 198 note * Comptes rendus, xlv. 230–232. See Appendix to this paper, p. 235.

page 198 note † Ibid., xlv. 228–230.

page 198 note ‡ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vii. 37–40.

page 199 note * Comptes rendus, xlvi. 1157–1160. See Appendix to this paper, p. 237.

page 199 note † Ibid., xlvi. 1107–1110. See App., p. 266.

page 199 note ‡ xvi. 104–116. See App., p. 240.

page 199 note § [3], liii. 469–489. See App., p. 241.

page 199 note ║ 213–217. See App., p. 267.

page 199 note ¶ Comptes rendus, xlvii. 378–380.

page 199 note ** Ler: d. Deutsch. Chem. Ges., xxiii. 1304.

page 200 note * Liebigs Annalen, cvi. 129–159.

page 200 note † Ibid, civ. 133, Anm.

page 200 note ‡ Ibid, cvi. 129–159.

page 201 note * Liebig's Annalen, cvi. 136.

page 202 note * Misprinted in the Comptes rendus “CnHn(1−2)+2.” See Liebig's Annalen, cvi. 154.

page 204 note * In the Comptes rendus “C2” is printed in error for “O2.”

page 207 note * cx. 51–66 (Heft 1, issued 16th April 1859).

page 207 note † “Wie es Laurent annahm.”

page 208 note * In the Phil. Mag. misprinted nC2M4- mM. See Ann. de chim. et phys. (3), liii. 480, line 10 from top.

page 208 note † Butlerow has obviously here in mind Kekulé's general expression CnH2n+2.

page 211 note * In the paper the first “O”has been omitted in error.

page 211 note † Misprinted “C2”for “O2”in the paper.

page 214 note * In the paper the first “OH” has been omitted in error.

page 215 note * In the paper the formula the dotted lines joining the six carbon atoni3 have been omitted in the paper.

page 215 note † Misprinted “H” for “O—OH”

page 217 note * Rép. 20–24.

page 217 note † Rép. 49–52.

page 219 note * Compare also von Meyer, Ernst's Geschichte der Chemie, Leipzig, 1889, S. 270, Anm. 3Google Scholar.

page 219 note † Liebig's Annalen, cxlvi. 260 (Heft ii., issued on 6th May 1868)Google Scholar.

page 219 note ‡ S. 269.

page 220 note * Page 829.

page 220 note † Page 270.

page 220 note ‡ I Comptes rendus, xlvi. 1107–1110.

page 220 note § Ibid., xxxiv. 850–851, séance du lundi, 31 May 1852.

page 221 note * Comptes rendus, xxxviii. 32–34, séance du lundi, 9 Jan. 1854Google Scholar.

page 222 note * Comptes rendus, xxxix. 122–125, séance du lundi, 10 juillet 1854.

page 223 note * xlvi. 1107–1110.

page 227 note * Liebig's Annalen, cccxlvi. 290.

page 227 note † Comptes rendus, xlvi. 1238, séance du lundi, 21 juin 1858Google Scholar.

page 228 note * Liebig's Annalen, cv. 286–292 (Heft iii. issued 27th Maerz 1858)Google Scholar.

page 228 note † Ibid., cii. 12.

page 228 note ‡ xlvi. 1107–1110.

page 228 note § Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg. (2), x. 337–350.

page 228 note ║ cxvii. 145–164.

page 229 note * Compare Liebig's Annalen, oxvii. 148, Anm.

page 229 note † Ibid., cxv. 157–206.

page 230 note * Annales de chim. et de phys. (1852) [3], xxxvi. 102107Google Scholar.

page 232 note * Compare Bd. i., Seite 164, Anm.

page 233 note * Liebig's Annalen, cxxix. 11 (Heft i., issued 8th Jan. 1864)Google Scholar.

page 233 note † Ibid., cxliii. 194 (Heft ii., issued 20th July 1867).

page 233 note ‡ Annales de chim. et de phys. (1877) [5], xi. 304Google Scholar.

page 233 note § Berl. Ber. (1877), x. 954Google Scholar.

page 233 note ║ Ibid. (1880), xiii. 465.

page 234 note * Liebig's Annalen, ccxxviii. 308–321 (Heft, iii., issued 18th May 1885)Google Scholar.

page 235 note * Comptes rendus, t. xlv. pp. 230–232 (10 aout 1857)Google Scholar.

page 237 note * Comptes rendus, t. xlvi. pp. 1157–1160 (14 juin 1858)Google Scholar.

page 238 note * This “O” is omitted in error in the original.

page 239 note * Misprinted “C2” for “O2” in the original.

page 240 note * Phil. Mag., vol. xvi., 4th series (1858), pp. 104116Google Scholar.

page 241 note * Annales de chimie et de physique, [3], t. liii. (1858), pp. 469489Google Scholar.

page 249 note * Misprinted “l'hydrogène” in the original. See the English paper.

page 250 note * Misprinted “C2“in the original. See the French paper.

page 252 note * Misprinted “mM”in the original.

page 254 note * The vertical dotted line between these two “C2's”is omitted in the original.

page 255 note * The two upper “O's”have been omitted in the original. See the English paper.

page 257 note * Misprinted “Le propylglycol”in the original.

page 258 note * The vertical dotted lines between the two “C's” is omitted in the original.

page 261 note * Misprinted in the original. See p. 260 and also p. 2–39

page 262 note * This “OH”is omitted in the original.

page 262 note † The oblique dotted line here is omitted in the original.

page 262 note ‡ The vertical dotted line between the “C's” is omitted in the original.

page 263 note * 263 * This “OH”is omitted in the original.

page 263 note ‡ Misprinted “H”for “O—OH”in the original.

page 264 note * A horizontal dotted line is erroneously printed here in the original.

page 266 note * Comptes rendus, xlvi., 11071110, séance du lundi, 7 juin 1858Google Scholar.

page 266 note † Misprinted in original “1,38”for “1,58”. Compare the English text.

page 267 note * The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. New series, vol. viii., July to October 1858, 213217Google Scholar.

page 269 note * Phil. Mag., August 1858Google Scholar.

page 269 note † Couper gives here the equation representing the action of PCl5 on salicylic acid (of which he speaks a few lines further on) instead of that for the action on gaultheria oil.

page 269 note ‡ Comptes rendus, xxxviii. 34.

page 269 note § Annales de chim. et de phys. [3], xxxvi. 102.

page 269 note ║ Couper is mistaken in this. Chiozza certainly had in his hands chlorobenzoyi chloride and chlorobenzoic acid.

page 272 note * Comptes rendus, t. xxxviii. p. 34.

page 272 note † Annales de Chimie et de Physique (3e série), t. xxxvi. p. 102.

page 272 note ‡ Comptes rendus, t. xxxix

page 273 note * Couper has here for phosphorus the symbol “Ph'” as throughout the French paper. Elsewhere in English he uses “P”.