[Printed handbill.] Liverpool Chemists' Association. Conversazione and Opening of the Museum of Materia Medica and Chemistry, Belonging to the Association, on Thursday, December 18, 1856. John Abraham, Esq., President of the Association, in the Chair

Folio, 1 p. Dimensions 21 x 33 cm. 51 lines of text, in a variety of types and point sizes, both single and double column. Text clear and complete. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with one short marginal closed tear. The 'Programme for the Evening', including 'Photographs of Saturn, the Moon, and the Crater of Copernicus', copied by 'Mr. Berry' from results by 'John Hartnup, Esq., of the Liverpool Observatory'; also a lecture by George Hamilton on 'The Gyroscope, and Rotatory Motion', and another by Dr Edwards on 'The Chemistry of Bessemer's Iron Process'; also details of 'objects of interest' to be exhibited during the evening; with 'An attiring room for ladies'. From the Abraham archive. Founded in 1849 by around fifty Liverpool chemists. No other copy listed (COPAC etc)