1. H. Hale Bellot, University College, London, 1826–1926 (1929) p. 298.
2. W. A. Tilden, Famous Chemists (1930).
3. J. Norman Collie, A Century of Chemistry (1927), quoted Bellot, op. cit., p. 127.
4. W. S. Jevons, Principles of Economics (1905) p. vii. A fragment of a note left by Jevons reads: ‘It was in 1851 that I first began, at the age of sixteen, to study the industrial mechanism of society, purchasing for the purpose some of the … By the year 1857 … I had achieved a careful study of the London Directory.’
5. Punch gave the building this name (Punch, Vol. xix, p. 183). See G. R. Fay, Palace of Industry, 1851 (Cambridge, 1951) p. 15.