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Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1823-

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index, June 1856

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
Scope and Contents

Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index. Topics covered include: Size and structure of Madeira, Scoriaeceous formations, Fossil remains of 3 periods which are to be found on Madeira, Lavas, Successive eruptions. June 1856. Folio 399-412 is a notebook of drawings by JB [Joanna Baillie] Horner.

Dates: June 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Index to Notebooks on Geology of Madeira, 186 - 197, c. 1858

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Identifier: Coll-203/A5/14
Scope and Contents This notebook contains short, individual indexes relating to Charles Lyell’s 13 notebooks [references Coll-203/A1/185-197] on his geological travels around Madeira and the Canary Islands, covering his arrival in Madeira in 1853 through to his manuscripts and letters created back in London in late 1854. The first page details his route through the islands, by year and place, with the corresponding Scientific Notebook given. Each individual Scientific Notebook from 185-197 is then also...
Dates: c. 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Index Notebooks