Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner, 1797-1875 (English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist )

Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author. Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...

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Correspondence includes: discussion on bricks; watercolour sketches to scale, of sections of the mortar used in the Great Pyramid, and 2nd [sic] Pyramid, Egypt, and thickness of Nile deposit; drawing with measurements and projection.