The Sugar Collection

One of the Special Collections generously donated to the Royal Society of Chemistry is the Sugar Collection donated by Professor J P Ogilvie (1881-1953).  Professor Ogilivie was the son of a well-known sugar refiner and became an authority on the subject of sugar himself.  He became a Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1912 and later presented a number of valuable books on sugar chemistry to the Society.

The collection is comprised of 347 books and pamphlets; the oldest item is from 1752 An Essay on Sugar by E Comyns.  As shown in the same bibliography that follows, researchers wishing to study the history & chemistry of sugar will find a wealth of knowledge on the topic in this collection.

Sugar Mills in Brazil

Bibliography

Baruchson, A 1868, Beetroot Sugar: remarks upon the advantages derivable from its growth and manufacture in the United Kingdom, Royal Exchange, London (RSC Item ID: 20000948)

Comyns, E 1752, An Essay on Sugar: proving it the most pleasant, salubrious and useful vegetable to mankind, Royal Exchange, London (RSC Item ID: 20010463)

Deerr, N 1905, Sugar and the Sugar Cane, Norman Rodger, Altrincham (RSC Item ID: 20000843)

Deerr, N 1949, The History of Sugar: Volume One, Chapman & Hall Ltd, London (RSC Item ID: 20000873)

Deerr, N & Brooks, A 1940-1941, 'The early Use of Steam Power in the Cane Sugar Industry', Excerpt Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. XXI (RSC Item ID: 20010380)

Magne, J 1920, The Manufacture of Alcohol from Molasses and Cane Juice, New Orleans (RSC Item ID: 20010529)

Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture 1949, The Production of Sugar: from sugarcane in Mauritius, E T Heron & Co. Ltd., London (RSC Item ID: 20010530)

Mitan, JC 1811, Ueber Zucker-Erzeugung Aus Ahorn-Saft, Gottlieb Haas, Prague (RSC Item ID: 20010491)

Owen, WL 1944, Motor fuel from molasses, Sugar, New York (RSC Item ID: 20010544)

Quarterly Review of Sugar Research 1947, The Sugar Molecule, vol. I, no. I & II (RSC Item ID: 20010473 & 4)

Reed, W 1866, The History of Sugar and Sugar Yielding Plants, together with an epitome of every notable process of sugar extraction, and manufacture, from the earliest times to present, Longmans, Green, & Co., London (RSC Item ID: 20000925)

Reynolds, PK 1924, The Story of Cuban Sugar, United Fruit Company, Boston (RSC Item ID: 20010436)

Robertson-Scott, JW 1911, Sugar Beet: some facts and some illusions: a study in rural therapeutics, 
Horace Cox, London (RSC Item ID: 20000942)

Tiemann, W 1903, The Sugar Cane in Egypt, International Sugar Journal, Altrincham (RSC Item ID: 20000804)

West, CJ 1946, The Utilisation of sugar cane bagasse for paper, board, plastics, and chemicals, Sugar Research Foundation, New York (RSC Item ID: 20010553)