Ure

Ure, ANDREW, M.D., chemist, was born at Glasgow in 1778, and educated at the university there. In 1802 he became professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow, and a few years later became first astronomer in the city observatory. In 1813 he published a Table of the Materia Medica, but achieved a more lasting reputation by researches on Calorie (in Phil. Trans., 1818). Later works were his Dictionary of Chemistry (1821); a translation of Berthollet on Dyeing (1824); and a System of Geology (1829), in which the hypothesis of a general Flood was maintained. In 1830 Ure removed to London, and in 1834 was appointed analytical chemist to the Board of Customs. He was already F.R.S. in 1822, and he died in London, January 2, 1857. His latest books were the Philosophy of Manufactures (1835), The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain (1836), and Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mincs (1839; 7th ed. 4 vols. 1875-78).