Chemist and sanitary engineer (1854–1911) who was an early advocate of conservation and especially concerned with pollution in rivers caused by trade wastes and sewage. ALS signed “Leonard P. Kinnicutt,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, no date. Letter to Prof. Henry B. Nason of Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, inquiring about available positions. In part: “I hope you will pardon me, for troubling you with this letter, for which I have only the excuse of desiring to obtain a position for next autumn. I am a graduate of the Mass. Institute of Technology in the department of Chemistry, obtaining the degree of S.B. in the year 1875. Since that time, I have worked one year at Heidelberg with Prof. Bunsen, thus obtaining a knowledge of his methods of analyses, and for two and one half at Bonn with Prof. Kekule on organic chemistry…I am now very anxious to obtain a position assistant in some chemical laboratory. If you know of any vacancy for which I would apply, or if you would give me any advice as to what it would be best for me to do, to obtain such a position I should be very much obliged.” In fine condition. Bunsen, of course, developed the ever-popular Bunsen burner, and Kekule was a pioneer in the study of chemical structure, whose notable work included the study of benzene and the development of the standard skeletal formula notation. RR Auction COA.
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