IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/224
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Mallet, Robert (1810-1881)
Date(s): 1858
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes
Name of creator(s): Mallet | Robert | 1810-1881 | civil engineer and mechanist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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:
Report to the Royal Society of London of the expedition into the interior of the Kingdom of Naples to investigate the circumstances of the Earthquake of December 1857, by Robert Mallet, CE, FRS.
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.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
See the collection of photographs on the after effects of the earthquake, reference MS/225.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.