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Plate 11 showing plan and elevation line drawings of the 'native iron', a large metallic meteorite from which Mornay took specimens. The drawings are inscribed above with publication and plate details and with a production note below: 'These figures are to be a little reduced, to accommodate them to the usual size of the Plates in the Phil. Trans.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Pine & Thomas 1812'.

Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of the discovery of a mass of native iron in Brasil' by Aristides Franklin Mornay.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1816.

Reference number
PT/73/5/12
Earliest possible date
1816
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Drawings, Bendego meteorite by [Aristides Franklin Mornay], 1816, PT/73/5/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_5_12/drawings-bendego-meteorite-by-aristides-franklin-mornay, accessed on 14 September 2026

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