| Date Note | Advertises geometrical models which may be related to his publication of 1820. |
| Administrative History | Nathaniel John Larkin was born in London, 5 December, 1781. At the age of nineteen he went to the Orkney islands, to establish a straw-plat manufactory, which he superintended for some years. He subsequently returned to London, and became noted for his models of crystals, illustrating Hauy's 'Traite de Mineralogie', and likewise the views of Dr Wollaston, Professors Mohs and Jameson, and other writers of scientific eminence. He constructed a cube of spherical molecules, uniform with the tetrahedron and octahedron of Dr Wollaston, from whom he received much friendly encouragement and assistance. He also arranged a very complete and comprehensive set of Geometrical Solids, and published three books in explanation of them, the most important of which was his 'Introduction to Solid Geometry, and to the Study of Crystallography' a work which appeared in the year 1820. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1816, to the President (G B Greenough, Esq) and other members of which he dedicated his book. He died on the 21st of October, 1855, being in the 74th year of his age. |