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RefNoAP/19/19
Previous numbersAP.19.19
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished letter, 'An account of the eruption of Mount Etna in the year 1536 from original contemporary documents' from Francis Palgrave to J G [John George] Children
Date14 January 1835
DescriptionPalgrave shares an account of the eruption of Mount Etna [Mongibello] written by the Barone di Burgis in Palermo, 10 April 1586. He hopes that the Royal Society will consider publishing the account in Philosophical Transactions. Annotated in ink throughout, including statements marked in red ink with 'omit'. Marked on back as 'to be printed in the Proceedings of the Society'.

Subject: History

Received 14 January 1835. Read 15 January 1835.

Written by Palgrave at the Record Office of the Treasury, Chapter House, Poets Corner, Westminster [London].

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 'An account of the eruption of Mount Etna in the year 1536, from an original cotemporary document, communicated in a letter to J. G. Children, Esq., Secretary of the Royal Society. By Sir Francis Palgrave, K. G. H., F. R. S'.
LanguageLatin
English
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0184
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7103Palgrave; Sir; Francis (1788 - 1861)1788 - 1861
NA3175Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist1777 - 1852
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