Abstract
We have heard from Peterborough Museum as follows: In 1985 Peterborough Museum acquired a large geological collection from Burghley House, near Stamford. The First Assistant Curator, Dr Gordon Chancellor, is hoping to produce a history of the collection once cataloguing is complete. Of immediate interest from the Burghley Collection are two identical marble slabs (each 125mm x 69mm x 20mm) in the middle of each of which is a metal stem, indicating that they were bases for something for display. Each slab has a glued-on orange paper base, to which is attached the following small label; *J. Mawe, Mineralogist, Museum, Cheltenham, And at 149 Strand, London*. We would be interested to know any further information about J. Mawe, about...
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