Alexander Williamson

Front matter

"'* TAKAAKI INUZUKA

A VICTORIAN CHEMIST AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN

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Preface

2 Birkbeck Laboratory at UCL The Choshü Five

N Oo Uu A WwW

Towards ‘unity out of difference’

Appendix: The names of the Choshü Five and Satsuma Nineteen Epilogue and Acknowledgements

Afterword: Serendipity: The ever-widening circle John White

Further reading Notes Index vii xiii

129 130 133

CONTENTS

List of figures

Portrait of Alexander Williamson by John Collier. Courtesy of the Department of Chemistry, UCL.

Park Gate House. Courtesy of Taira Sato.

UCL in c. 1828. Courtesy of UCL Special Collections. Williamson's letter of application to the Council of UCL for the Professorship of Practical Chemistry. Courtesy

of UCL Special Collections.

Emma Catherine Key (Williamson), 1831-1923. Courtesy of the Williamson collection/Phoebe Barr.

Alexander Williamson. Courtesy of the Williamson collection/Phoebe Barr.

Fellows of the Royal Society, 1885. Wellcome Collection. Williamson is standing on the far right.

Bunta (Kaoru) Inoue. Courtesy of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo.

Shunsuke (Hirobumi) Ito. Courtesy of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo.

Yozo Yamao. Courtesy of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo. Yakichi Nomura (Masaru Inoue). Courtesy of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo.

Kinsuke Endo. Courtesy of Japan Mint Museum, Osaka. The White Adder. Courtesy of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archive.

Carte-de-visite photograph of Alexander Williamson

by H.J. Whitlock, c. 1865. Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images.

The Choshü five. Courtesy of Hagi Museum.

Royal Medal awarded to Williamson by the Royal Society. Courtesy of the Williamson collection/Phoebe Barr. Pages from UCL’s student register, 1863-6. Courtesy

of UCL Special Collections.

LIST OF FIGURES vii

£1,000 note, printed to mark the visit of the Choshü five, 1864. O Bank of England.

Yakichi Nomura (Masaru Inoue). Courtesy of the Williamson collection/Phoebe Barr.

Tomoatsu Godai. Courtesy of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo.

Hiroyasu Matsuki (Munenori Terashima). Courtesy

of JCII Camera Museum, Tokyo.

The Satsuma students. Courtesy of Kagoshima Prefectural Library.

The Satsuma students. Courtesy of Kagoshima Prefectural Library.

Williamson's letter to Charles Atkinson, 24 July 1865. Courtesy of UCL Special Collections.

Hikosuke Isonaga (Kanae Nagasawa). Courtesy of Satsuma Students Museum, Kagoshima.

Oliver Key Williamson as child. Courtesy of the Williamson collection/Phoebe Barr.

Brookwood Cemetery: graves of four Japanese students who died in London. Courtesy of Nobutaka Sato. Arinori Mori while staying in Russia, 1866. Courtesy

of Satsuma Students Museum, Kagoshima.

Taizo Masaki. Courtesy of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Shoin Yoshida. Courtesy of Yamaguchi Prefectural Archive.

Tokyo Kaisei School around the time of its opening in 1871. Courtesy of National Diet Library, Tokyo. Gold medal awarded to Joji Sakurai. Courtesy of National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.

Silver incense burner in lion shape made by Joun Oshima. Courtesy of Sally-Anne Lenton.

Gravestone of Alexander and Emma Williamson in Brookwood Cemetery. Courtesy of Nobutaka Sato. Black granite monument to Alexander and

Emma Williamson. Courtesy of Nobutaka Sato.

Memorial at UCL erected in 1993 to mark the 130th anniversary of the visit of the Choshü Five. Courtesy of Nobutaka Sato.

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