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Neapolitan Earthquake papers


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.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See Report of Expedition to investigate the circumstances of the Earthquake of December 1857 (MS/224).

Publication note:

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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Earthquakes | Natural disasters | Disasters
Disasters (by type)

Personal names
Mallet | Robert | 1810-1881 | civil engineer and mechanist

Corporate names

Places
Naples | Italy | Western Europe | Europe