Francis Humphreys Storer
American chemist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francis Humphreys Storer was an American chemist known for his work in agricultural chemistry. He studied under Josiah Parsons Cooke at the Lawrence Scientific School . He later was professor of general and industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1865 to 1870, and dean of the Bussey Institution at Harvard University from 1870 to 1907. At MIT he co-authored with Charles W. Eliot the first Laboratory Manual of Inorganic Chemistry written in the English language. Storer's father was David H. Storer, a prominent physician and naturalist, and his older brother was Horatio R. Storer, a gynecologist and anti-abortion activist. He was good friends Robert H. Richards, a mining engineer, and Charles Eliot, who would become president of Harvard University, and married his sister Catherine Eliot in 1871.
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- Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry (6)
- Rock disintegration in hot, moist climates. (1883) (3)
- Examination of Naphtha Obtained from Rangoon Petroleum (2)
- A mad stone. (1885) (1)
- On the Impurities of Commercial Zinc, with Special Reference to the Residue Insoluble in Dilute Acids, to Sulphur, and to Arsenic (1)
- Examination of a Hydro-Carbon Naphtha, Obtained from the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Lime-Soap (1)
- Four Hundred and Ninety-Third Meeting. March 12, 1861. Monthly Meeting; On the Chromate of Chromium, and Analogous Chromates, with a New View of the Constitution of the Black Oxide of Manganese (1)
- IS NOT THIS COUNTRY RIPE ENOUGH TO ADOPT THE METRIC SYSTEM? (1896) (1)
- First Outlines of a Dictionary of Solubilities. Part II (1)
- Arsenic as an impurity of metallic zinc (1861) (0)
- Domestic ducks that fly abroad like pigeons. (1883) (0)
- Six Hundredth Meeting. October 13, 1868. Monthly Meeting; On the Simultaneous Occurrence of a Soluble Lead Salt and Free Sulphuric Acid in Sherry Wine; With Observations on the Solvent Action of Alcoholic Saline Solutions upon Sulphate of Lead (0)
- Rock Disintegration in Hot, Moist Climates (1883) (0)
- On the amounts of lead contained in some silver coins (1861) (0)
- Robins, Sparrows, and Earth-Worms (1883) (0)
- Robins, sparrows, and earth-worms. (1883) (0)
- Contributions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; I, On nitric acid and chlorate of potassium as an oxydizing mixture applicable to sulphur, sulphids, chromium, arsenic, organic matters, etc (1869) (0)
- A Caterpillar-Eating Hen-Hawk (1883) (0)
- Art. XXVIII.A Cyclopdia of Quantitative Chemical Analysis. (1871) (0)
- Ammonia a constant contaminant of sulphuric acid (1875) (0)
- Mode of action of shell- and rock-bearing mollusks (1884) (0)
- STORER'S AGRICULTURE. (0)
- A caterpillar-eating hen-hawk. (1883) (0)
- 'Mother of petre' and 'mother of vinegar.'. (1883) (0)
- Schoenbein's test for nitrates (1876) (0)
- Note on the ferment theory of nitrification (1878) (0)
- An item of history, as to the idea of making the parts of guns interchangeable (1884) (0)
- On the Alloys of Copper and Zinc (0)
- 'Mother of Petre' and 'Mother of Vinegar' (1883) (0)
- SYMMETRICAL LINEAR FIGURES PRODUCED BY REFLECTION ALONG A RIVER-BANK. (1883) (0)
- Cherry Blossoms destroyed by Squirrels (1875) (0)
- On the simultaneous occurrence of a soluble lead-salt and free sulphuric acid in sherry wine; with observations on the solvent action of alcoholic saline solutions upon sulphate of lead (1870) (0)
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