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2. 010095.de.56(8)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 010095.de.56(8)
- Title:
- Trachyte blocks on Guajara. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of rock formations, facing p. 193. These 'curiously stray blocks of greenstone, and of black lava,' are described on p. 167.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1856
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. 010095.de.56(9)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 010095.de.56(9)
- Title:
- Masses of lava slag at Alta Vista. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 215, of lava mounds. These blocks, 'varied and grotesque,' are described on p. 250.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1856
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Cup.410.g.225(12)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cup.410.g.225(12)
- Title:
- Glacier motion — ice and rock. Photographer: Edwards, Ernest
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted on p. 12. Close view: 'An illustration is given on the next page of a phenoomenon not infrequently found at the edge of a glacier, which shows the motion of the ice so clearly, that the eye of the imagination can almost see it move. The ice which forms the u...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1865
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. P.P.1931.k, 1(37)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- P.P.1931.k, 1(37)
- Title:
- Remarkable block of double-refracting spar. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view: 'We are enabled, by the kindness of Professor Tennant, to present our readers with a stereograph of a very remarkable specimen of Double-refracting Calcareous Spar, which has lately been imported from Iceland.' A label reading 'Stereoscopic Magaz...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. P.P.1931.k, 1(49)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- P.P.1931.k, 1(49)
- Title:
- Interior of the Museum of Practical Geology. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view of the domed interior of the Geological Museum, opened in May 1851, with text description, pp. 49-52. The museum is now the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museum. Published in part no. 3, September 1858.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item