Drawings, Bendego meteorite by [Aristides Franklin Mornay]
Reference number: PT/73/5/12
Date: 1816
Description
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.
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- PT/73/5/12
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- 1816
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An account of the discovery of a mass of native iron in Brasil. By A. F. Mornay, Esq. In a letter to William Hyde Wollaston, M. D. Sec. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0036
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XV. An account of the discovery of a mass of native iron in Brasil. By A. F. Mornay, Esq. in a letter to W. H. Wollaston, M. D. Sec. R. S External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1816
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0016
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