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Lost & Found: 227. Diana Maria Dondeswell (active c.1825-1846)

1994; Volume: 5; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.55468/gc697

0144-5294

Michael P. Cooper,

Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Michael P. Cooper (41 Albany Road, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham NG7 TLX) would be grateful for any information on the mineral collectors listed below (LF227-232) and the whereabouts of any extant specimens from their collections. He writes: 'The name of this apparently unknown woman collector appears on a bookplate in a copy of the 1818 edition of John Mawe's A new descriptive catalogue of minerals, the interleaved blank pages of which have been used for a manuscript catalogue of part of a collection of minerals. There are about 500 entries in the catalogue, which lists species and locality, together with some provenance data. The front cover bears a hand-written label: 'List...