In the original dust cover.Maroon cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Gilt crest on the front board.

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Sir Harold Brewer Hartley (1878-1972) was a British physical chemist whose contributions to both academia and industry were facilitated by a meticulous experimental approach and unrivalled powers of persuasion. Despite being affected throughout the latter half of his career by severe arthritis that eventually left him unable to walk, he continued contributing to the advancement of science until the very end of his life.

Sir Harold Brewer Hartley was born on 3 September 1878 in London. He developed an interest in science as a boy, his father’s mineral collection inspiring an early fascination with the subject of mineralogy, before being introduced as a pupil at Dulwich College to the joys of chemistry.

In 1897, he won a scholarship to Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where, immediately after graduating with First Class Honours, he accepted a role as Tutorial Fellow. He was given responsibility for the teaching of physical chemistry, a relatively young subject without strong foundations in Oxford. As a teacher, he promoted to his students his own deeply held convictions about the value of precision in experimental techniques and the importance of understanding one’s own place in the development of scientific thinking.

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences.The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world.The society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the society’s president, according to a set of statutes and standing orders. The members of Council and the president are elected from and by its Fellows, the basic members of the society, who are themselves elected by existing Fellows. As of 2020, there are about 1,700 fellows, allowed to use the postnominal title FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), with up to 73 new fellows appointed each year from a pool of around 800 candidates.There are also royal fellows, honorary fellows and foreign members. Up to 24 new foreign members are appointed each year (from the same pool of 800) and they are allowed to use the postnominal title ForMemRS (Foreign Member of the Royal Society). The Royal Society president is Adrian Smith, who took up the post and started his five-year term on 30 November 2020, replacing the previous president, Venki Ramakrishnan. Since 1967, the society has been based at 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, a Grade I listed building in central London which was previously used by the Embassy of Germany, London.

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.