Steenstrup, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist and professor of chemistry and mineralogy, University of Copenhagen (Denmark))
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Claparède, René-Édouard, to Charles Lyell, 6 October 1859
File — Box Box 1.2: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/46
Scope and Contents
Letter, with envelope, to Sir Charles Lyell from Rene-Edouard Claparede sending information on the nature of the research of Johan Japetus Steenstrup and Johan Georg Forchhammer relating to the former peoples of Denmark. He states that although they are interesting from an archaeolological point of view, they do not have the importance that Lyell attaches to them. The findings do not have the same import as the axes discovered in France or Devon. He then gives a precis of the research, 6...
Dates:
6 October 1859
Letters from Lartet, Édouard to Charles Lyell, 6 January 1857 - 7 March 1869
File — Box Box 1.8: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/159
Scope and Contents
Some original ordering is evident and is noted. Lyell summarises the letters as:
1. 'Lartet, Lower Miocene and Upper Eocene, Jan 6, 1857'
2. 'Lartet, queries on Pliocene & part-pliocene mammalia'
3. 'Lartet (3) Rhinoceros leptorhinus rec[ieved]. 16 March 1858'
4. '(1) Lartet - E primigenius found at Rome by Ponzi. E. priscus & E. africanus - nomenclature 1853'
5. '(4) Lartet Sept 6 1859 (Seissan) Elephant africanus foss[il] Rhinoceros of Aymard'
6....
Dates:
6 January 1857 - 7 March 1869
Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870 - 3 July 1871
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/258
Scope and Contents
This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle...
Dates:
22 April 1870 - 3 July 1871