News from the St. Aubyn Project, from Jessica Shepherd
Geoscientist 19.1 January 2009
Readers of
Geoscientist (July 2008, vol. 18.7, p10) were asked if they could help to identify the labels of a historic mineral collection in order to help the Plymouth City Musseum and Art Gallery to locate former specimens from the St Aubyn Collection.
In that same month, Helen Fothergill and Jess Shepherd of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery visited Saffron Walden Museum in Essex. Sarah Kenyon, the Natural Sciences Officer at the Saffron Walden Museum, had been in touch with Plymouth because they had 37 minerals that were donated to them by Sir John St. Aubyn in 1834. While at Saffron Walden, Helen and Jess examined the minerals before taking them away on a loan.