'Silver - Variae'
Reference code
GOW/03/03
Title
'Silver - Variae'
Date
1899-1912
Level of description
file
Extent and format
1 folder
Scope and content
Folder containing an accumulation of loose papers, mostly notes taken by Gowland from published works, but including cuttings from publications, correspondence and photographs. The contents are:
Loose papers, mainly notes and bibliographical lists (not all in Gowland's hand).
Cuttings and a pamphlet:
- cutting of abstract of an article by G von Bene, 'A Roman mine in Hungary', [journal and date not shown] annotated by Gowland 22 September 1899. 1 sheet.
- cutting of article by HR Jastrow, 'The minerals of the Ottoman Empire', [journal and date not shown] annotated by Gowland 18 May 1901. 1 sheet.
- Foreign Office Consular and Diplomatic Reports Miscellaneous Series no. 576 1902, Cd.787-12 'Report on the mineral resources of Greece', with, loose, another copy of Annexe IV 'Map illustrating principal known marble areas'. Pamphlet, with 1 loose sheet.
- cutting of article by Yang Tsing Foo, 'Silver mining and smelting in Mongolia', Engineering and Mining Journal, 24 January 1903, p 147. 1 sheet.
- cutting showing letter from Thomas Rickard on 'Mining in the Kirghiz steppes' responding an earlier letter from E Nelson Fell, Engineering and Mining Journal, 31 December 1903. 1 sheet.
- cutting of article [no author named], 'Silver and lead ore in Spain', Board of Trade Journal, 30 June 1904, pp 590-91. 2 sheets.
Pinned to the previous item, cutting of piece on 'Lead works on Spain', annotated by Gowland '1904' but not otherwise identified.
- cutting of article (incomplete) by Theo F van Wagenen, 'Silver', Mining and Scientific Press, 19 September 1908, pp 392-94 . 2 sheets.
- cutting of 'Antiquaries' Notes', a piece on 'Roman Silver' (an ingot found in 1910 near Pulborough), Southern Weekly News, 9 April 1910.
Ink drawings:
- Three ink drawings on two cards, annotated by Gowland for publication: 'size of furnace. Arch 57 - p 118 fig 2'.
These appeared in his article 'The early metallurgy of silver and lead', Archaeologia 57 (1900), fig 10, p 392.
- Ink drawings on a card, captioned 'Prehistoric Crucibles' and numbered 1-11, with red ink note 'Pl. II'.
This appeared slightly amended in Gowland's Huxley Memorial lecture for 1912, 'The Metals in Antiquity', printed in Journal of the Anthropological Institute 42 (1912), plate XXVI.
Loose papers, mainly notes and bibliographical lists (not all in Gowland's hand).
Cuttings and a pamphlet:
- cutting of abstract of an article by G von Bene, 'A Roman mine in Hungary', [journal and date not shown] annotated by Gowland 22 September 1899. 1 sheet.
- cutting of article by HR Jastrow, 'The minerals of the Ottoman Empire', [journal and date not shown] annotated by Gowland 18 May 1901. 1 sheet.
- Foreign Office Consular and Diplomatic Reports Miscellaneous Series no. 576 1902, Cd.787-12 'Report on the mineral resources of Greece', with, loose, another copy of Annexe IV 'Map illustrating principal known marble areas'. Pamphlet, with 1 loose sheet.
- cutting of article by Yang Tsing Foo, 'Silver mining and smelting in Mongolia', Engineering and Mining Journal, 24 January 1903, p 147. 1 sheet.
- cutting showing letter from Thomas Rickard on 'Mining in the Kirghiz steppes' responding an earlier letter from E Nelson Fell, Engineering and Mining Journal, 31 December 1903. 1 sheet.
- cutting of article [no author named], 'Silver and lead ore in Spain', Board of Trade Journal, 30 June 1904, pp 590-91. 2 sheets.
Pinned to the previous item, cutting of piece on 'Lead works on Spain', annotated by Gowland '1904' but not otherwise identified.
- cutting of article (incomplete) by Theo F van Wagenen, 'Silver', Mining and Scientific Press, 19 September 1908, pp 392-94 . 2 sheets.
- cutting of 'Antiquaries' Notes', a piece on 'Roman Silver' (an ingot found in 1910 near Pulborough), Southern Weekly News, 9 April 1910.
Ink drawings:
- Three ink drawings on two cards, annotated by Gowland for publication: 'size of furnace. Arch 57 - p 118 fig 2'.
These appeared in his article 'The early metallurgy of silver and lead', Archaeologia 57 (1900), fig 10, p 392.
- Ink drawings on a card, captioned 'Prehistoric Crucibles' and numbered 1-11, with red ink note 'Pl. II'.
This appeared slightly amended in Gowland's Huxley Memorial lecture for 1912, 'The Metals in Antiquity', printed in Journal of the Anthropological Institute 42 (1912), plate XXVI.