Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm Site of the 1862 International

Site of the 1862 International Exhibition

Saturday 18th March 1972

Rudolf Caracciola

'Isaacus Newton Eq

behind which is the Monument

Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm Site of the 1862 InternationalStudies 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: