Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository John Wallis with a high-collared white shirt

with a high-collared white shirt

Although the figure is unidentified it is thought that it may be Sylvester de Everden

Christ Church

showing the area between Edmund Townshend

'High-ward Conchites'

Stones and crystals in the Royal Society's Repository John Wallis with a high-collared white shirtStudies of 'Astrochites' (or 'Starred Stone'); 'Silver Spar'; 'Foliated Talk' (talc); 'Mundick Spar'; a 'Talk Crystal' (talc); a 'Half Crystal'; and 'Starred Waxen Vain' ('Given by Sir Rob. Moray. Found in the Isle of Sheapy'). Table 21 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: