TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rashleigh, Philip
AU  - Hawkins, John
AU  - Gregor, William
ED  - Cleevely, R. J.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Collecting the new, rare and curious: letters selected from the correspondence of the Cornish mineralogists Philip Rashleigh, John Hawkins and William Gregor, 1755-1822
T3  - Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new series volume 52
PB  - Boydell & Brewer
CY  - Woodbridge
KW  - Mineralogists
KW  - England
AB  - Mineral collectors made a significant contribution to the development of mineralogy as a science and the rich variety of specimens found in the South West of England enabled Cornish collectors to play a significant part in this process. This volume contains 168 letters selected from the correspondence of three 18th-century Cornishmen - Philip Rashleigh, the Reverend William Gregor, and John Hawkins - with other British and European researchers. It illustrates the motives of collectors and the ways in which improvements in identifying and studying minerals were made.
SN  - 9781787447721
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787447721/type/BOOK
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787447721
DO  - 10.1017/9781787447721
LA  - English
N1  - edited with an introduction by R.J. Cleevely
ID  - 1852919965
ER  -