Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm Saturday 18th March 1972

Saturday 18th March 1972

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Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm Saturday 18th March 1972Studies of 'Astrochites' (or 'Starred Stone'); 'Silver Spar'; 'Foliated Talk' (talc); 'Mundick Spar'; a 'Talk Crystal' (talc); a 'Half Crystal'; and 'Starred Waxen Vain' ('Given by Sir Rob. Moray. Found in the Isle of Sheapy'). Table 21 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: