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Unpublished papers, regarding calcareous incrustations and topography by R McCormick

Reference number: AP/24/13

Date: 28 October 1839 - 31 January 1840

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Four short papers regarding calcareous incrustations observed at Ponta de São Lourenço in Madeira, Porto Praia in Cabo Verde, St Paul's Rocks [Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago] and Trinidad, with a further paper titled 'Zoological department'. The papers are followed by three pages of illustrations of the calcareous incrustations.

Subject: Geography / Geology / Topography

Received 28 May 1840.

Written by McCormick aboard HMS Erebus.

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AP/24/13
Earliest possible date
28 October 1839 - 31 January 1840
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
21 pages
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Drawing
Manuscript

Creator name

R McCormick

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R McCormick, Unpublished papers, regarding calcareous incrustations and topography by R McCormick, 28 October 1839 - 31 January 1840, AP/24/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_24_13/unpublished-papers-regarding-calcareous-incrustations-and-topography-by-r-mccormick, accessed on 12 May 2025

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