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Minerals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Ad sublimandum marchasitam, 1478

 part
Identifier: MS 131/f. 73r
Contents

An anonymous alchemic recipe for the sublimation of marcasite, a mineral also known as white iron pyrite.

Dates: 1478

Collection of Drawings of Minerals

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-542
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of highly colourful drawings of minerals and are organised into five volumes of accompanying notes. Manuscript notes in the volumes indicate that the drawings are arranged in families according to the system of Professor Robert Jameson (1774-1854).

Dates: 1830-1836

Copy correspondence, 1876-1914

 Series
Identifier: Coll-99/5
Scope and Contents
  1. family letters
  2. professional correspondence
Dates: 1876-1914

Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/1 (Dc.2.29)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1766

Full Minerals After Nitrate, Rothamsted, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3009
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a plot of grasses with full minerals after nitrate at Rothamsted, [England] in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Full Minerals and Ammonium Salts, Rothamsted, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3043
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a plot of land in a small box that was tested with full minerals and ammonium salts at Rothamsted in England in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Full Minerals and Nitrate of Soda, Rothamsted, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3042
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a plot of land in a small box that was tested with full minerals and nitrate of soda at Rothamsted in England in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Genetic variation in mineral metabolism in relation to disorders, 1978

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/656
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1978. Volume 12 of 19.

Dates: 1978

Lectures on American geological history, c1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/6/4
Scope and Contents

Notes and text for seven lectures looking at the geological history of the American continent, looking at specific locations therein, based partly on results from American survey work. These locations were related to to other places around the world, particularly in Britain and Europe. A variety of geological formations were looked at, including that of the continent itself, considering the materials which make them up and the geological timeframe.

Dates: c1879

Letter from Henry Menish to Joseph Black, 10 August 1780

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/99-102
Scope and Contents

Letter from Dr Henry Menish to Joseph Black about minerals and medical matters.

Dates: 10 August 1780