IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/225
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Neapolitan Earthquake papers
Date(s): 1857
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s): Mallet | Robert | 1810-1881 | civil engineer and mechanist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Robert Mallet was born, 1810; BA; Entered family iron founding business aged 21; patented the 'buckled plate' (1852); Fellow of the Royal Society, (1854); Awarded Cunningham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy (1862); honorary MAI (Master of Engineering), University of Dublin (1862); honorary LLD, University of Dublin (1864); President, Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (1866); President, Geological Society of Dublin (1846); with his son John William Mallet, FRS compiled an earthquake catalogue amd seismic map of the world (1850-1858); was the first to determine an earthquake's epicentre (Naples, 1858); died, 1881.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
An extensive collection of photographs and drawings of the after-effects of the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857, collected by Robert Mallet (FRS 1854) including 120 stereoscopic cards by Alphonse Bernoud and 36 individual studies by C V Grillet.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Early photographs - stereoscopic cards.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
See Report of Expedition to investigate the circumstances of the Earthquake of December 1857 (MS/224).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.