RefNo | AP/15/13 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the caves and fissures, in the western district of the Mendip Hills' by David Williams |
Date | [1831] |
Description | Williams describes various caverns and fissures found in the Mendip Hills [Somerset, England], including descriptions of artefacts and fossilised remains found in the caverns, such as bones and teeth from rhinoceros, hyenas, bears, oxen, horses, hogs, foxes, rats, mice, and birds.
John George Children's initials appear next to the date received. Deletions and corrections appear throughout in ink and graphite.
Subject: Geology
Communicated by Davies Gilbert. Received by the Royal Society from [James] Hudson on 14 February 1831. Read to the Royal Society on 2 June 1831.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the caves and fissures in the western district of the Mendip Hills'. |
Extent | 60p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0029 |
RelatedRecord | MC/2/44 |
RR/1/262 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8707 | Gilbert; Davies (1767-1839) | 1767-1839 |