Newspaper. Records establishment of Birkbeck Laboratory 1846
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Newspaper. Records establishment of Birkbeck Laboratory 1846. Has engraving of interior of Birkbeck Lab. Newspaper. Records establishment of Birkbeck Laboratory 1846. The clipping records an extract of University College London's Council minutes during a session which took place on the December fifth, 1846, that was printed for their consumption by the subscribers to the Birkbeck Testimonial. It records the council's agreement to pay five-hundred guineas on the eighteenth of july to the College, paid by Dr. Birkbeck, for a Laboratory of Analytical and practical Chemisty, on the agreement that it be named the "Birkbeck Laboratory of Chemistry" and that the Council agree to arrange an evening course on instruction in practical chemistry at a reduced fee for the convenience of those engaged in manufacturing.
There are supposedly two copies of these minutes, one with the family of Dr. Birkbeck and the other in a public office.
This copy is signed by Charles Atkinson (secretary) and Lord Brougham (President).
The laboratory (pictured in an engraving on this document) was demolished in 1968, and the minutes were transferred from the College Collection in 1989.
The image of the laboratory shows a lesson in session, the same high pointed roof depicted by J. Archer in Charles Knight's London Illustrated News.
