Minerals
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black, 14 May 1779
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/91-92
Scope and Contents
Letter from JF Hermann to Joseph Black about minerals (with notes by Black).
Dates:
14 May 1779
Minute Book No I, 04 December 1834 - 13 August 1840
Item — Volume MS 2917.1: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/1
Scope and Contents
Small notebook containing minutes of meetings. These include: details of membership and those which attended each meeting, details of the development of "laws of the society" including subscription rates, and details of mineral and book purchases. A proposed merger with the Cuverian Society is also noted. Geological questions discussed and conclusions reached are minuted. These include "Is coal of vegetable origin?", "Is Arthur's Seat of acqueous or volcanic origin?" and "What...
Dates:
04 December 1834 - 13 August 1840
Minute Book No II, 27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842
Item — Volume MS 2917.2: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/2
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of meetings. These include: details of membership including those which attended each meeting and the financial affairs of the Society. Annual reports for 1840 and 1841 are included and summarise the society's activities and finances for the year. Lists of names and addresses of all members are included. Geological questions discussed and conclusions reached are minuted. 4 meetings were spent discussing "Is the glacier theory of Agassiz applicable to...
Dates:
27 August 1840 - 04 June 1842
Minute Book No III, 07 July 1842 - 02 May 1850
Item — Volume MS 2917.3: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/3
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of meetings. Membership details include: details of new and retiring members, those who attended each meeting and deaths. Newspaper obituaries for George Sanderson and Hugh Smith are pasted into the book. The financial affairs of the Society are reported, and a newspaper clipping with the annual report for 1847 included. Details of the development of the society library are minuted. Abstracts of member's papers are minuted, along with the resultant...
Dates:
07 July 1842 - 02 May 1850
Minute Book No IV, 17 October 1850 - 04 June 1857
Item — Volume MS 2917.4: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/4
Scope and Contents
2 notebooks pasted together containing minutes of meetings. Membership details include: details of new and retiring members and those who attended each meeting. A list of names and address for members in 1858 is pasted into the back of the book. The financial affairs of the Society are reported, and the annual report for 1850 is pasted into the front of the book. The reading of member's papers are minuted, along with the resultant discussions, although many abstracts have been...
Dates:
17 October 1850 - 04 June 1857
Notes on Canaries & Madeira with Hartung, May - June 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 59-76
Scope and Contents
Notes - including sketches - of a visit to the Canary Isles and Madeira with Georg Hartung, to look at the geological formations caused by volcanoes on the islands. TNotes on trip to Lanzarote and Fuerteventura with James Tennant to look at minerals. Index of notes on Madeira & the Canaries with G. Hartung. May-June 1855 - also refers to page numbers in Notebook 203.
Dates:
May - June 1855
Reprint of 'A List of Sarawak Minerals', 1911
Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/4
Scope and Contents
Reprint of A List of Sarawak Minerals, ( 1911) , by John Somerville Geikie, originally published in the Sarawak Museum Journal in .
Dates:
1911
Review of genetic aspects of mineral metabolism with particular reference to copper in sheep, 1979
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/690
Scope and Contents
Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1979. Volume 13 of 19.
Dates:
1979
The transport of minerals to the white of the hen's egg, 1966
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/405
Scope and Contents
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1966.
Dates:
1966
The zinc contents of eggs of some inbred lines of Brown Leghorn fowls, 1962
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/262
Scope and Contents
Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1962.
Dates:
1962