Simon, James ( -1757)

Date:: 1746

Reference:: MS.2392/4

Part of:: Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)MSS.1302, 2391-2392 & 5403
- Memoirs and Papers sent to the Royal Society of LondonMS.2392
  - Simon, James ( -1757)MS.2392/4

About this work

Description

Of the Lough Neagh petrifactions. Followed by a copy of a letter referring to them to the author from George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne [1685-1753]. Endorsed by Folkes: 'Mr Simon of the Lough Neagh petrifactions. Dec. 18. 1746. Feb. 5 1746/7. Pr. Tr. 481. VIII'. Produced in Dublin.

Publication/Creation

1746

Physical description

12 pp + 2 ll (4to. 24 × 191/2 cm.). Author's holograph MS.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1934.

Biographical note

The author was a Dublin merchant and he was elected F.R.S. in 1748, and published an important work on Irish coins in 1749. His name is wrongly given as 'Simson' in Thomas Thomson's 'History of the Royal Society' 1812.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).