Fossil beds at Madeira
Date
1840
Creator
Robert McCormick (1800 - 1890, British) , Naval surgeon
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 250mm
width (drawing): 204mm
width (drawing): 204mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two landscape sketches showing the location of the “incrustation bed” at Ponta da São Lourenço, Madeira.
Illustrations from a group of letters under the general title “Calcerous incrustations Ponta da Lourenca, Madeira“ by Robert McCormick. Not published in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed in ink, above: “Rough Outlines and Diagrams, an illustration of the Geological Remarks”. Figure 1 captioned below: “Landing place at the Incrustation bed. Ponta da Lourenco. Madeira”. Figure 2 captioned below: “Summit of Pico Ruivo, Bearing S.W. from St. Anne’s – Madeira”.
Robert McCormick (1800-1890) was surgeon aboard HMS Erebus during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
Illustrations from a group of letters under the general title “Calcerous incrustations Ponta da Lourenca, Madeira“ by Robert McCormick. Not published in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions.
Inscribed in ink, above: “Rough Outlines and Diagrams, an illustration of the Geological Remarks”. Figure 1 captioned below: “Landing place at the Incrustation bed. Ponta da Lourenco. Madeira”. Figure 2 captioned below: “Summit of Pico Ruivo, Bearing S.W. from St. Anne’s – Madeira”.
Robert McCormick (1800-1890) was surgeon aboard HMS Erebus during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
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