Calx fluor Size:Large: 7 x 5in Lend Us A Hand

Lend Us A Hand

View of the re-enactment of the battle of Trafalgar on the Serpentine in Hyde Park during the 1814 peace celebrations

25th June 1988

22nd August 1959

designed by Adele Rootstein

Calx fluor Size:Large: 7 x 5in Lend Us A HandTwo specimens of fluorite, here termed 'fluate of lime, or fluor', with a figure showing its crystalline form. Plate 73 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'These specimens are among the rarest of the fluors known in Great Britain. The upper one is in the possession of my very generous friend