Unpublished paper, 'On hollow pyramidal ice-crystals' by Karl Grossmann and Joseph Lomas

Description

The authors present a description of Surtshellir, a lava cave in Iceland, including descriptions of stalactites and stalagmites, ice crystals on the walls and roof of the cave and the conditions and mode of formation of the crystals. They also write about hoarfrost examined at Christmas 1892, artificial hoarfrost, comparisons with cubic skeleton crystals and existing literature and research into hollow pyramidal ice crystals.

Includes 27 pages of photographs and diagrams of ice crystals and stalagtites.

Subject: Mineralogy / Chemistry

Communicated by [John Wesley] Judd.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 55 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On hollow pyramidal ice crystals'.

Reference number

AP/70/3

Earliest possible date

1894

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

76 pages

Format

Manuscript
Photograph
Diagram