Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Manuscripts of Articles and Lectures
Series 3: Manuscripts and Notes on Research in Alchemy
Series 4: Published Articles
Series 5: Notes
Series 6: Miscellaneous
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Arthur John Hopkins (AC 1885) Papers, 1846-1939
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by ma.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2003
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Creator:
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Hopkins, Arthur John, b. 1864 |
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Title:
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Hopkins Papers |
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Dates:
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1846-1939 |
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Abstract:
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Correspondence, draft writings, articles, notes and other materials documenting the career of Hopkins as a scientist and professor of chemistry at Amherst College. His scientific notes and writings chiefly document research in the field of alchemy, but there is also some material on the calculation of latitude and longitude. In addition, the papers include some correspondence of his wife, Margaret Briscoe Hopkins, as well as genealogical information.
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Extent:
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7 archives boxes(3.5 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
Arthur John Hopkins was born on September 20, 1864, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in 1885. He was principal of the Cotuit (Mass.) High School, 1886-1888; taught science in the Peekskill (N.Y.) Military Academy, 1888-1890; studied at Johns Hopkins University, 1890-1893, where he was a fellow in 1892 and earned his PhD; and was a professor of chemistry at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, 1893-1894. He then returned to teach at Amherst College, first as an assistant and associate professor of chemistry 1894-1907, and a full professor from 1907 until his retirement in 1934. He died on November 10, 1939, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He wrote many scientific articles and a book, Alchemy, Child of Greek Philosophy. He was an authority on the history of alchemy.
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Correspondence, draft writings, articles, notes and other materials documenting the career of Hopkins as a scientist and professor of chemistry at Amherst College. His scientific notes and writings chiefly document research in the field of alchemy, but there is also some material on the calculation of latitude and longitude. In addition, the papers include some correspondence of his wife, Margaret Briscoe Hopkins, as well as genealogical information.
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This collection is organized into six series:
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Series 1: Correspondence
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Folder
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Letters to others from others, A-Z
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Letters to Hopkins, A-Z
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Letters to Hopkins concerning his research on alchemy, A-F
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Letters to Hopkins concerning alchemy, G-Q
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Letters to Hopkins concerning alchemy, R-Z
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Letters from Hopkins, A-Z
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Letters to Mrs. Hopkins (Margaret Briscoe Hopkins) A-Z
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Series 2: Manuscripts of Articles and Lectures
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Lecture on "H.I.C."
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Lecture to Science Club, Feb. 20, 1917
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Lecture to Chemistry Club, March 8, 1916
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Lecture to Rotarians, Sept. 26, 1929, "Story of Alchemy"
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"The Romantic History of Hydrogen Sulphide," 1916
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Analysis of a book by B.K. Emerson
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Ms. - "Working Directions for Three Sundial Charts"
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Ms. - "The Light of Stars"
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Two notebooks containing data on a new method of longitude calculation
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Problems for course on navigation, 1917-18
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History of the Chemistry Department; The First Year Course in Chemistry
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Series 3: Manuscripts and Notes on Research in Alchemy
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"Researches in Alchemy," Washington, D.C., April 23, 1924
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"A Study of the Kerotakis Process as Given by Zosimus and Later Alchemical Writers" (2 copies)
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"A Study of the Kerotakis Process as Given by Zosimus and Later Alchemical Writers" (2 copies with notes)
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Ms. - "The History of Alchemy," 1920 (185 pages), copy 1
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Ms. - "The History of Alchemy," 1920 (185 pages), copy 2
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Notes on and partial translation of Leyden Papyrus X
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Two translations of Leyden Papyrus X with original text
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Four notebooks on alchemy
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Two lectures on alchemy
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Reviews of Hopkins's book, Alchemy, the Child of Greek Philosophy
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Series 4: Published Articles
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PhD dissertation, The Reaction Between Manganese Dioxide and Potassium Permanganate, Johns Hopkins University, 1893. (4 copies)
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"A Modern Theory of Alchemy," Etrait d'Isis, Vol. VII, I, No. 21, 1925, Bruxelles
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"Transmutation by Color," a study of earliest alchemy, Sonderabdruck aus Studien zur Geschichte der Chemie, Festgabe für Edmund O. V. Lippman (Verlag Julius Springer, 1927) (2 copies)
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Series 5: Notes
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Miscellaneous notes
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Notebooks on experiments
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Notebooks on experiments
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Fragment of a manuscript
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Miscellaneous notes include notebooks on water analysis
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Miscellaneous notes on formulas for physical constants
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Miscellaneous notebooks on: 1.) Graduation of the sextant arc into centigrade degrees 2.) Latitude by mirror 3.) Longitude problems 4.) Decimal navigation - longitude 5.) Decimal navigation - longitude 6.) Finding longitude from equal alt. 7.) Longitude problem
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Series 6: Miscellaneous
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Anecdotes about Mrs. Hopkins by Charles H. Morgan, 1958
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Newspaper clippings about Arthur and Margaret Hopkins
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Papers concerning Hopkins and the resignation of President Meiklejohn
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Amherst College Diploma and other certificates of honour
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Mrs. Hopkins's wedding gown book
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Hopkins genealogical material
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