Geology of Santiago and Trinidad
Date
1840
Creator
Robert McCormick (1800 - 1890, British) , Naval surgeon
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 250mm
width (drawing): 408mm
width (drawing): 408mm
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Description
Four landscape sketches showing geological features of: Santiago, Cape Verde Islands; Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago [St Paul’s Rocks]; and Trinidad.
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.
Figure 1 captioned below: “Calcareous Stratum, Eastward of Porta Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Verd Islands”. Figure 2 captioned below: “Plan of St. Paul’s Rocks...”. Figure 3 captioned below: “St Paul’s Rocks, Bearing S.S.E.”; Figure 4 captioned below: “Island of Trinidad...”
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.
Figure 1 captioned below: “Calcareous Stratum, Eastward of Porta Praya, St. Jago, Cape de Verd Islands”. Figure 2 captioned below: “Plan of St. Paul’s Rocks...”. Figure 3 captioned below: “St Paul’s Rocks, Bearing S.S.E.”; Figure 4 captioned below: “Island of Trinidad...”
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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