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Description: | Beresof [=Beresov], Siberia, [USSR (Russia)] unknown Although only recorded as "Hunterian" in the museum catalogue, this may well be from William Hunter's original bequest. Hunter's mineral lists and bills do record that he had specimens of crocoite from Siberia. For example, among them is a "Catalogue of Minerals", mostly from Russian localitites, but written in French: "22. Mine du Plombe rubiche of Birosova [?] close to Catharinenourg in Siberia. See Lehmann's letter to De Buffon on the new species of lead minerals crystallised Plumbi crystalline rubra.". Specimens of crocoite very like this were being collected at the time: very similar material is shown in Leroy De Barde's famous painting of a mineral cabinet, now in the Louvre. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CHROMATE : UNKNOWN : MINERAL : ORIGINAL BEQUEST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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