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Melville, Alexander Gordon, 1819 - 1901 (Irish comparative anatomist, Professor of Natural History at Queens College, Galway)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and Papers concerning Sea Serpents, 1820-1848

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5); Series Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6); Series Coll-203/7 (lyell 7); Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Identifier: Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5)
Scope and Contents

Letters and Papers Concerning Sea Serpents consists of:


  1. Notes and clippings regarding sightings of sea serpents, 1820-1848
  2. Letters from Sir John William Dawson, John Fleming, William McGillivray, Alexander Gordon Melville, Patrick Neill, Colonel Parkins and George Robert Waterhouse regarding sea serpents, 1845-1848
Dates: 1820-1848

Notebook No.155, January 1848- May 1848

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/155
Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings when in London, starting in January 1848 and including some focus on ’Americana’ before his second travels in American was published in 1849. The first pages (and from p 78] are notes on pages and references relating to the other American notebooks - which could be publishing related or organisational. It covers conversations, queries, and discussions he started in America including geological,...
Dates: January 1848- May 1848

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Aquatic Animals 1
Classical Civilisation 1
Lectures 1
Mississippi River (United States) 1
Sea Serpents 1