Author:James Smithson

James Smithson
(c. 1765 – 1829)

James Smithson by Henri-Joseph Johns, 1816

Works

• A chemical Analysis of some Calamines. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read November 18, 1802. [Phil. Trans. 1803, p. 12.]
• Account of a Discovery of native Minium. In a Letter from James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. P.R.S. Read April 24, 1806. [Phil. Trans. 1806. p. 267.]
• On the Composition of the Compound Sulphuret from Huel Boys, and an Account of its Crystals. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read January 28, 1808. [Phil. Trans. 1808. p. 55.]
• On the Compasition of Zealite. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read February 7, 1811. [Phil. Trans. 1811, p. 171.]
• On a Substance from the Elm Tree, called Ulmin. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read December 10, 1812. [Phil. Trans. 1813, p. 64.]
• On a saline Substance from Mount Vesuvius. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read July 8, 1813. [Phil. Trans. 1813, p. 256.]

• A few Facts relative to the Colouring Matters of some Vegetables. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. Read December 18, 1817. [Phil. Trans. 1818, p. 110.]

• Draft Will of James Smithson (c. October 1826)
• Last Will of James Smithson (23 October 1826) (transcription project)

Works about Smithson

• "Smithson, James," by Joseph Henry in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Smithson, James," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Smithson, James," by Henry Richard Tedder in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Smithson, James," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
• "Smithson, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)