Simon, James ( -1757)
- Date:
- 1746
- Reference:
- MS.2392/4
- Part of:
- Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)
- Archives and manuscripts
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).
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Accession number
- 78977