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Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist)

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Cross-sections of Madeiran geology, 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 28-32
Scope and Contents

Illustrations by Hartung relating to a paper read by Sir Charles Lyell March 22 1854 to the Geology Society including a section of Cape Girain [sic Girão], Volcanic Cone, and the coast of Madeira, 1854.

Dates: 1854
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

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

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
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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

Illustrations Manual Madeira & Canary Islands, 1850s

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 45-49
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Original packaging noted as 'Illustrations Manual Madeira & Canary Islands'. Geological cross sections, possibly some by Hartung? 1850s.

Dates: 1850s
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

Letters from Johnson, James Yate to Charles Lyell, bulk: 2 February 1860

 File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/147
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Summarised as 'J.Y. Johnson Madeira Po da Cruz leaves'.
Additional details: Notes from J Y Johnson on receiving Lyell's memoir of Etna, asking after Lyell's memoir of Madeira. Mentions his own progress on leaf identification in the area of Porto da Cruz and mentions his discoveries in reference to others like Brown, Reiss, and Hartung and their work going on in Sao Gorge and Valley of Furnas.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2 February 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche

Madeira and Canaries Notebook, 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859

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Identifier: Coll-203/A4/2
Scope and Contents Small red leather soft cover notebook, marbled end papers, paginated in handwritten ink. Front cover marked as 'Madeira & Canaries'.This notebook records discussions, reading, drawings and copy letters (in Mary's writing) made whilst with Hartung at Swingenberg, Germany, and working through the Canary Islands publication, making revisions or notes, especially on volcanoes, lava slopes, elevations and upheaval. Many pages written in pencil. Blank from page 89 onwards. ...
Dates: 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Madeira and Canary Islands Notebooks

Madeira and Canary Islands, 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/642
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Folder of notes, edits and hand drawn illustrations - including watercolours - created to be used in their publication, and relating to Madeira, Cape Girao, Porto Nuevo, Porto Santo. Was original GEN1999/8/2].

Dates: 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

Madeira and Canary Islands, 1853 - 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/641
Scope and Contents Includes work on Fossil plants of Santa Jorge, Madeira by Heer [is Lyell's writing], Index list to Canary Island specimens of rocks - Lanzarote, Fuerventura, Tenerife, Madeira, Grand Canary; Georg Hartung's notes on Porto Santo and Madeira [possibly Bunbury's writing]; Fossil plants from the Lignite beds of Santa Jorge [possibly Mary Lyell's writing]; titles of plants by Hartung; Hartung's notes on Serra d'Agoa, Pico Serrido, Meio Medade, S. Vincent, including drawings and Funchal Directory...
Dates: 1853 - 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

Madeira - Notes, Indexes, 5 November 1856 - 1857

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Identifier: Coll-203/A4/1
Scope and Contents Dark green to black leather soft cover notebook with marbled end paper, paginated in handwritten ink. Identified with side label 'Mad-eira Index Manual 55' and on the front with a label 'Madeira p1-53 Notes [amended text] 1856 C.L. and on the next line, Manual [underlined] new Ed[ition] [from] p.55 Indexes'. Also contains notes on Lyell's preparation for an edition of his Manual of Elementary Geology. Summary index: This notebook does not...
Dates: 5 November 1856 - 1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Madeira and Canary Islands Notebooks

Manuscripts by Georg Hartung, 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/643
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Four packets of Hartung's original manuscript. [was GEN1999/8/3]

Dates: 1854
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

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