Geological map
Date
1811
Creator - Organisation
James Kirkwood and Son, Engraver
After
Robert Jameson (1774 - 1854, British) , Geologist
Object type
Library reference
RCN32515
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 211mm
width (print): 266mm
width (print): 266mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Specimen ‘Geognostical’ map showing surface rock types coloured according to the method suggested by Abraham Gottlob Werner, with a colour coded key, top left. No location is provided, if the map represents a particular place.
Un-numbered plate [positioned at plate 15] accompanying the paper ‘On colouring geognostical maps’, by Robert Jameson, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.149-161 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘To front page 160’. Inscribed below: ‘Kirkwood sculpt. Edinr.’
Robert Jameson (1774-1854) British geologist and natural historian, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) German geologist.
Un-numbered plate [positioned at plate 15] accompanying the paper ‘On colouring geognostical maps’, by Robert Jameson, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.149-161 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘To front page 160’. Inscribed below: ‘Kirkwood sculpt. Edinr.’
Robert Jameson (1774-1854) British geologist and natural historian, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) German geologist.
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