Record

CodePX1372
Dates1823-1911
Person NameMaskelyne; Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story- (1823-1911); MP and mineralogist
SurnameMaskelyne
ForenamesMervyn Herbert Nevil Story-
EpithetMP and mineralogist
ActivityMuseum Staff: . Educated at Oxford, studied mathematics. Studied law, and then science. Appointed Keeper of Department of Mineralogy 1857; resigned 1880; Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford 1856-1895; MP for Cricklade 1880-1892; county councillor for Wiltshire 1889-1904.
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DF/MIN/10/1/31Notes on meteorites by Nevil Story-Maskelyne
DF/MIN/10/3/1Report to Trustees on duplicate mineral specimens by Nevil Story-Maskelyne
DF/MIN/13/3Letters about the new building at South Kensington from Alfred Waterhouse and officials of the British Museum to Nevil Story-Maskelyne
DF/PAL/100/9/78Story-Maskelyne, N
DF/MIN/12/27'Catalogue of the collection of meteorites exhibited in the Mineral Department of the British Museum
DF/MIN/19/2Letter from G Gore to Nevil Story-Maskelyne on ammonium fluoride
DF/MIN/15/1Letters and memoranda to Nevil Story-Maskelyne, with draft replies
DF/MIN/20/1/4/15Viktor von Lang: crystallographic measurements and drawings from specimens in the Museum collection
DF/MIN/13/2Notes for evidence to the Select Committee on the British Museum by Nevil Story-Maskelyne relating to accommodation for the mineral collection
DF/MIN/18/37M H N Story-Maskelyne
DF/MIN/20/1/2Story-Maskelyne, M H N: A bibliography of meteorites and meteoritic iron
DF/MIN/10/2/8Charles Seton Guthrie collection of Indian jade and rock crystal, offered but not purchased: notes by Nevil Story-Maskelyne
DF/MIN/15/4Letters and memoranda to Nevil Story-Maskelyne, with draft replies
DF/MIN/15/5Letters and memoranda to Nevil Story-Maskelyne, with draft replies
DF/MIN/15/2Letters and memoranda to Nevil Story-Maskelyne, with draft replies
DF/MIN/20/1/4/11'The metals and minerals of the Bible' (printed)
DF/MIN/20/1/4/5Diamonds and antiquities: notes and newscuttings
DF/MIN/20/1/4/14Translations of ancient texts
DF/MIN/15/31Nevil Story-Maskelyne: letters on a statement by Henry Cole on the new building for the natural history departments at South Kensington
DF/MIN/20/1/4/2Notes on the Koh-i-noor and other historic diamonds
DF/MIN/20/1/4/9Newscuttings relating to the British Museum, one of them a letter of John Ruskin
DF/MIN/20/1/4/1Historical notes on the Koh-i-noor diamond and other historic gemstones
DF/MIN/20/1/4/6'Notes on jewels etc', with extracts from Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny
DF/MIN/20/1/4/8'The filling of fissures', notes for a lecture on the formation of ore minerals
DF/MIN/20/1/4/10'On diamonds', the text of a lecture given at the Royal Institution, reprinted from 'The Chemical News'
DF/MIN/10/4/13Papers on the arrangement of the collection by Lazarus Fletcher, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Henry M Platnauer and William L H Locke
DF/MIN/20/1/1Story-Maskelyne, M H N: crystallographic measurements and calculations on museum specimens prepared for the 'Scientific Catalogue ...'
DF/MIN/20/1/4/7'Lectures on the mineralogy of antiquity'; includes much on historic diamonds
DF/MIN/20/1/4/12'Physical properties of minerals - I. optical': notes for a lecture, illustrated with diagrams
DF/MIN/20/1/4/16Royal Institution: Syllabus of lectures on the allied phaenomena of the chemical and electrical forces by Michael Faraday (printed)
DF/MIN/20/1/4/13'Visitors to Prof Maskelyne's lecture on crystallography, Nov 23, 1874', with notes on crystal structure from the works of Groth, Fedorov and others, and circular polarisation of crystals
DF/MIN/1/1/210-221Atkinson, W S
DF/MIN/10/2/4Notes on mineral collections by Jessie M Sweet, Walter Campbell Smith, Sir Arthur Russell and others
DF/MIN/10/1/3List of meteorites in the British Museum by Nevil Story-Maskelyne
DF/MIN/1/2/199Bengge, W
DF/MIN/1/2/103-104Batchen, J S F
DF/MIN/1/2/3Barfoot, J L
DF/MIN/10/3/36Lists of mineralogy specimens
DF/MIN/1/2/127Beadle, E R
DF/MIN/13/4Notes for evidence to the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction by Nevil Story-Maskelyne relating to accommodation for the Department of Mineralogy
DF/MIN/15/3Letters and memoranda to Nevil Story-Maskelyne, with draft replies
DF/BOT/404/1/7/40Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn H Nevil
DF/MIN/20/1/4/3On the Koh-i-noor diamond: manuscript draft
DF/MIN/20/1/4/4On the Koh-i-noor diamond: finished typescript
DF/MIN/4/61Draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals addressed to the Trustees
DF/MIN/20/1Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Keeper of Mineralogy): Papers
DF/MIN/20/1/4Papers of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, mineralogist
DF/MIN/20/1/3Letters to Nevil Story-Maskelyne and George F Herbert Smith
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