Paper, 'An account of the strata in coal mines' by John Strachey
Reference number: CLP/9i/69
Date: 1724
Description
Four manuscript pages and two plates showing the geology of the earth in coal mines in Somersetshire.
Paper describes the composition of the strata in hills and coal mines in the Mendip Hills, the Cotswolds, Marlborough Downs, and Salisbury Plains.
Subject: Geology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the strata in coal-mines, &c'.
Read to the Royal Society on 10 June 1725
- Reference number
- CLP/9i/69
- Earliest possible date
- 1724
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Strachey, Paper, 'An account of the strata in coal mines' by John Strachey, 1724, CLP/9i/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_69/paper-an-account-of-the-strata-in-coal-mines-by-john-strachey, accessed on 15 March 2025
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I. An account of the strata in coal-mines, &c External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1724
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1724.0073
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The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.
Dates: 1592 - 1741
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