Aston Balance, an historically valuable piece of equipment.

Aston Balance, maker uncertain

Glassware. Long side-arm flask, as used in Lecture Demos of distillation.

Not identified. No 16 of a set of 24 tubes used by Dr Traill of Melb Tech.

Gas developing flask. Used in Demonstration of mass of air. 13.0 - 20.0 in height, 5.0 -10.0 diameter.

Stand for Vacuum or X-Ray Tubes.

Polariscope - without tubes

Two Gas regulators.

Ernst Johannes Hartung was a chemist and astronomer. Educated at the University of Melbourne (BSc 1913, DSc 1919), he became lecturer in 1919, associate professor in 1924, and succeeded Rivett as chair of chemistry in 1928, remaining in this position until 1953. Hartung?s lecturing style surged with enthusiasm and he employed the use of screen projections to demonstrate chemical phenomena to large undergraduate classes. In 1935 he recorded Brownian movement in colloidal solutions on 35 mm cinefilm, which was later copied onto 16 mm film for the Eastman Kodak Co. World Science Library. This can be viewed in the Chemistry laboratory. He researched the photo decomposition of silver halides, and was awarded the David Syme Prize in 1926. He devoted time to the design and construction of a large, new chemistry building for the School of Chemistry (built 1938?1939). During World War II he was approached by Professor Thomas Laby, chairman of the Optical Munitions Panel, to chair the advisory committee on optical materials, to produce high quality optical glass in Australia. This was successful, with large-scale production achieved within ten months at a reasonable cost. Hartung served three terms as general President of the (Royal) Australian Chemical Institute, was an ex-officio councillor of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and a Trustee of the Museum of Applied Science (now part of Museum Victoria).Set of analytic weights, used by E.J.H. in most of his work

The illuminating lamp - piece of a capillary elecrometer adapted at MU

Hand Vacuum Pump - originally from Physiology

Two Weston Cells, H.Tinsley & Co London

Fletcher Standard Boiling Burner. Gall Cat No 285.

Number of parts: 36. Seamless Parchment Diffusion Cells in original box, 1.0 - 1.2 in height, 0.2 - 0.35 in width.

Chemical Specimens: and one label

First Research Samples from Melb. Uni. Chem Dept.From the work of J.B.Kirkland

Specimens labelled: 1: C.B. Incandescent Mantle O.M. 1900.

2:Daylight Incandescent (an oxide of Cerium, from 2 mantles) OM 1902

3: Phenyl Thio-carbnalide S= C(NHC6H5)2OM 1900

4: Fischer's Salt AC 1901

Number of parts: 18. Samples of the Rare Earth Group - Erbium, Dypsrosium, Lanthanum Oxides

Burette with tap, calibrated, 50.00ml, belonged to G.Ampt

Gallium Residues (liquid). These are the earliest specimens from the Masson era

(Sir) David Orme Masson was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne from 1886 to1923. As well as being a distinguished teacher and researcher, he contributed significantly to Australian scientific and public life, being instrumental in the establishment and governance of many important bodies including the CSIRO. Masson supported Antarctic research for 25 years, beginning with Douglas Mawson?s expedition of 1911. Born in England and receiving an MA, BSc and DSc from the University of Edinburgh, he was a gifted, elegant and disciplined lecturer and a researcher of substance. His research work included the theory of solutions, from which emerged the term ?critical solution temperature?; the periodic classification of the elements; and the velocity of migration of ions in solutions. Much of his research was done in collaboration with talented students such as David Rivett and his own son Irvine Masson. Masson was knighted in 1923. He is commemorated by the Masson Theatre and Masson Road at the University of Melbourne; a mountain range and island in Antarctica; a portrait painting by William McInnes in the foyer of the School of Chemistry; the Masson lectureship from the Australian National Research Council; and the Masson memorial scholarship from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.8 samples in bottles of the type used in Masson's work on methyl,etc,sulphides, See152

Earliest research samples from David Orme Masson's work at Edinburgh. Trimethyl sulphine iodide J.A.Blackie 1878

Earliest research samples from David Orme Masson's work at Edinburgh.Trimethyl sulphine dichloride, crystallised rom cold alcohol.

Earliest research samples from David Orme Masson's work at Edinburgh. 3a Trimethyl sulphine -chlor -brom - iodide, from hot alcohol.