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RefNoPT/73/5/12
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, Bendego meteorite by [Aristides Franklin Mornay]
Date[1816]
DescriptionPlate 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.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
Dimensions249x202mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0036
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0016
RelatedRecordPT/10/15
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8625
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