Page "Friedrich Accum" Paragraph 38

The process that ultimately led to Accum's departure from England and return to Germany began a few months after the publication of his book on the poisoning of foodstuffs.

For a long time, many contradictory accounts have been given of the exact circumstances of his exile.

Finally in 1951, Cole, in an addendum to the minutes of Royal Institution, proved that the presentation of the events adopted in the article in the Dictionary of National Biography, and also later in the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie ( according to which Accum was embroiled in charges of embezzlement as librarian of the Royal Institution and escaped to Germany ), did not correspond to the facts.