1999/01/22 by John H. Appleby · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Engineering · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Historical and Scientific Studies #History of Science and Natural History #Bust #Portrait #Loan #Law #Political science #Sociology #History #Art history #Economics #Boom #Engineering
paper · doi:10.1098/rsnr.1999.0065
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In March 1998 the Royal Society acquired on loan a bust of Woronzow Greig, the eldest son of Mary Somerville by her first marriage. This paper outlines his Anglo–Russian connections, his career as a barrister and his scientific interests, before describing how the portrait bust came to be made of him.