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Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903) was an American chemist and bibliographer of science.


Biography

He graduated from Columbia in 1862, and then studied chemistry with
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in Paris; with
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, and
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; with
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; and with
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in
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, and received a D. Phil. at Göttingen in 1866, for his work called "On the Fluorine Compounds of Uranium". The rest of the issue is also about Bolton and his works. After his graduation, he spent some years in travel. From 1872 until 1877, he was assistant in quantitative analysis in the Columbia School of Mines. In 1874 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. He resigned in 1877, when he became professor of chemistry and natural science in
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. The celebration of the centennial of chemistry at
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, the home of
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, who discovered oxygen in 1774, was suggested and brought about by Bolton. Among his investigations, that of the action of organic acids on minerals is perhaps the most important, but most of his work was literary, and his private collection of early chemical books was unsurpassed in the United States. Bolton published large bibliographies of chemistry and later of all scientific periodicals which are still used. He included
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in the chemistry listings and emphasized the continuity of the transition. He was a member of many scientific societies, perhaps more than any contemporary. The rest of the issue is also about Bolton and his works. The
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hosts the Bolton Society, which is named for H.C. Bolton, to support "printed materials devoted to chemistry and related sciences" and to support its Othmer Library of Chemical History.


Works

* ''Catalog of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1665–1882).'' 1885. * ''A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1895.'' (second edition) 1897. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Reprinted 1965 by Johnston Reprint Corporation. * * ''Select Bibliography of Chemistry (1492–1892)''. 1892. (lists 12,031 titles) * ''Select Bibliography of Chemistry (1492–1904)''. (completed posthumously; lists over 14,000 titles) * ''The Follies of Science at the Court of
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''. 1904. Milwaukee: Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Company.
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by the
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) * * ''The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children: Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide'' 1888 * ''The family of Bolton in England and America, 1100-1894 a study in genealogy. Embodying the Genealogical and biographical account of the family of Bolton, published in 1862 by Robert Bolton, rewritten and extended to date''. 1895
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bolton, Henry Carrington American bibliographers Historians of science American chemists Columbia College (New York) alumni University of Göttingen alumni 1843 births 1903 deaths