| Description | The accounts are divided under various headings such as travel expenses; books bought; general expenses; clothes, etc. The mineralogical accounts include payments for specimens, fossils, cabinets, freight charges. etc. The general expenses include payments for beggars, chemicals, hair dressing, lunar meetings, subscriptions, theatre, etc. On the cover of the volume is written in red ink: 'Mineralogical expences etc. 1798-1801.' |