| Description | Miscellaneous geological notes collated by George Bellas GREENOUGH, from various sources, [1818-1840].
Volume comprises:
a) 'Notes for consideration &c' by Frederick Moysey Esq, on the rocks of in Penzance Bay, Cornwall, with detailed extracts from a tour of Cornwall [presumably by Moysey] made between 19 January and 22 April 1818, notably including information, plans and sections of the Gwallion, Wheal Fortune, Wheal Virgin mines (pp2-64);
b) Copy of a letter from R[obert] Halifax, Standish 25 May 1818, on a trip he made to Gloucester to Hereford and the geology and fossils he saw on the way, (pp68-70);
c) Copy of a letter from William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways, 25 March [?1818/1819], St Petersburg, describes newly published Russian maps but did not purchase them 'without orders'; pleased that Greenough has made contact with 'Melbury' and that he hopes that the Forest Marble will be traced to its end in the 'new map'; descriptions of minerals and fossils; briefly refers to the reception of William Smith's map by the [?St Petersburg] Mineralogical Society (pp74-76);
d) 'Riders' [end of notes only], (p80)
e) '...on the history of rocks deduced from fossil content' (p88-90)
f) 'Granite veins' (p92-94); Short inscription in Greek on the 'avidity of collectors', another in Latin (p98)
g) 'List of officers commonly employed on a mine in Austria' (p100)
h) Notes on the depth of the sea (p102)
i) 'Geological Enquiries affinities', short queries on the reason certain rocks are associated with particular features (p106)
j) 'Classification [of minerals]' (p110)
k) 'On chasms or fissures produced by excavation' (p114)
l) Notes on mineral and whin veins (pp116-132)
m) Ink outline section of the Riesengebirge copied from a manuscript of Abraham Werner, 21 July 1816 (p134)
n) 'Effects of a storm', copied from the 'Observer', 1 November 1813 (p136)
o) 'Origin of basalt', notably notes on William Daniel Conybeare's opinion on the igneous origin of basaltic rocks, taken from Berger, J F & W D Conybeare "On the Geological Features of the North-eastern Counties of Ireland", 'Transactions of the Geological Society of London', vol 3 (1816). (pp138-140)
p) 'Granite Blocks' of North Europe and Westmorland (pp144-146)
q) 'Transubstantiation (Metamorphosis) of Rocks and Metals' (p149-152), with references to Charles Lyell's 'Principles of Geology', vol 3 (1833)
r) 'Craters of Elevation' (p154)
s0 'Genesis' and 'Genesis of Rocks' (p156-170)
t) 'Escarpments' (p172); 'Graduation of [botanical] species' (p180); 'Change of Climate' (p182)
u) Extract from the 'Letter from John Frederick William Herschel to Charles Lyell, February 1836', on the theory of volcanics, with thumbnail sketches (pp184-196)
v) 'Basin' (p200); 'Chemistry (p204)
w) 'On effects produced at junctions' (p206)
x) notes of Granite and other veins (pp208-228), including two sketches, one on loose sheet on the back of which is written "Papers intended for Memoir on Min Veins not wanted at present".
Loose and scrap notes, includes:
Notes on a mistake in Robert Jameson's account of the Wernerian System relating to placement of the variegated sandstone under the Jura limestone; mineral waters; written section 'South on Dunkin's Lode, Cook's Kitchen' [not in Greenough's hand]; notes on the limestone of Montecchio Maggiore, Italy; notes on 'Rodt todt Localities England' referencing the work of Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Murchison, John Farey and William Smith in tracing the Rothe Todte Liegende or Exeter Red Conglomerate; architectural notes on columns. |
| Administrative History | W T H Fox Strangways was a diplomat in St Petersburg between December 1816-June 1820. St Petersburg Mineralogical Society was founded in 1817. |