Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/200 contains:
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7	Correspondence with Ladislao Reti of Sao Paulo, Brazil, about oriental stills and the history of distillation
8	Note from Sydney [?] about distillation of wine
9	Correspondence with Dr. Zofia Ameisenowa of the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Krakow, Poland, about a representation of a 'dephlegmator' and other medical topics in manuscripts held at the library, and related Joseph Needham notes
10	Copy of a Joseph Needham letter to the Director of the Museum, Taxila, Pakistan, about an apparatus for distilling water dating from the second century B.C., reply from the Museum, and related documents
11	Joseph Needham diagram showing topics to be researched for the history of laboratory apparatus and equipment in China
12	Typescript draft pages dealing with the recovery of mercury from cinnabar, prepared for the paper by Ho Peng-Yoke and Joseph Needham entitled 'The Laboratory Equipment of the Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemists', ('Ambix', 1959)
13	Joseph Needham's list of references to alchemical apparatus in his 'China 1958 tour notes'
14	Notes by Ho Peng-Yoke and Joseph Needham on the 'rainbow' têng [? / Deng] described in the 'Hsi Chhing Ku Chien [???? / Xi Qing Gu Jian], (1751)
15	Postcard from Prof. J. R. Partington about a reference to a Chinese-type still in an Arabic work 'Ain-i-Akbari', written about 1590 by the great historian Abu'l-Fazl 'Allami, and related notes
16	Typed notes from Prof. J. R. Partington on the subject of the 'kerotakis', the Greek reflux distillation apparatus, and related Joseph Needham notes
17	Postcard from Prof. Glenn Sonnedecker of the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A., requesting a copy of the paper by Ho Peng-Yoke and Joseph Needham entitled 'The Laboratory Equipment of the Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemists', ('Ambix', 1959)
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