Symonds, William Samuel, 1818-1887 (geologist)
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Symonds, W.S., to Charles Lyell, 19th century
File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/93
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
- 10 boxes of correspondence
- 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
- 24 boxes of offprints of papers
- 294 notebooks
Dates:
19th century
Notebook No.249, 30 July 1863- April 1864
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/249
Scope and Contents
Red leather bound notebook, dated July 30 1863 to April 1864 covering Lyell's research in Wales, including mountains - Moel Tryfan, Snowdon - quarries caves and beaches. Lists significant corrections necessary for 'Antiquity of Man'. Lyell's own index Index
July 30 1863 to April 1864
p. 1 Llanberis. Lakes of
- [Llanberis] Perched block
- Tarn near in [perched block]
p. 3 Absence of shells...
Dates:
30 July 1863- April 1864
Notebook No.254, August 1868-1 March 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/254
Scope and Contents
This dark red Notebook starts in London with Mary and Leonard Lyell, and documents travels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an index created by Arabella Buckley. Lyell studies submerged forests, beaches, caves and iron works making notes and sketches, and referencing experts as well as local guides. Several meetings 'with Darwin'. Final pages relate to Grindle Pit, Bury St Edmunds, with sections written by Buckley that appear to be dictated by Lyell. ...
Dates:
August 1868-1 March 1869
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Aurignacian culture 1
- Bangor (Wales) 1
- Barry Island (Barry, Wales) 1
- Bones 1
- Caves 1
- Drift 1
- Elephant bones 1
- England -- Suffolk 1
- Fossil shells 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 1
- Glacial Epoch 1
- Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales 1
- Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil 1
- Iron-works 1
- Llandudno (Wales) 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 1
- Mastodon 1
- Menai Straits Bridge (Wales) 1
- Moel Tryfan 1
- New Zealand 1
- Paleolithic period 1
- Pembrokeshire (Wales) 1
- Puy-de-Dôme (France : Department) 1
- Raised Beaches 1
- Severn River (Wales and England) 1
- Snowdon (Wales) 1
- Trees 1
- Wales -- Gwynedd -- Caernarfon 1 + ∧ less
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