Established by his widow in 1932, the Edgar Fahs Smith Fund is a tribute to Dr. Smith, who served the University of Pennsylvania for nearly forty years as Instructor (1876-1881), Professor of Chemistry (1888-1920), Vice-Provost (1899-1910), and Provost (1911-1920).
His papers and personal collections, the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry, are housed in Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Materials purchased through this fund include:
- Procès-verbal des opérations de teintures faites a Yvetot
- Epistolae fratris Rogerii Baconis, De secretis operibus artis et naturae, et de nullitate magiae
- Mémoire sur la peinture a l'encaustique et sur la peinture a la cire
- Letter to the Reverend Doctor Priestley
- [Price list and invoice for J. Stratford, fireworks maker, 24 Union Court, Holborn, London].
- Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized : in these following particulars, viz. 1. The material cause, 2. The efficient cause, 3. The subject part, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author and t
- [Melitsaḥ] kai hermēneia : das ist ein Onomasticvm vnd Interpretatio oder aussfÜhrliche Erklerung
- Family-physician, and the house-apothecary : Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of : II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepa
- Tractatus medico-historicus de tribus imposturibus : oder, FreymÜthige Gedancken von denen drey berÜchtigten VerfÜhrern des Volcks : 1) Dem Getränck des Thée und Coffée, 2) Der Erwehlung commoder Tage. 3) Der Anschaffung derer Haus-Apothecken
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