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Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist)

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Notebook No.190, January 1854 - February 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/190
Transcription note: This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, and in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. Specific areas of note include Cape Girão, Curral [das Freiras], Pico Serado, Torrinhas, Pico do Cardo, Casa Branca, Pico da Cruz, Pico Grande, Pico do Jorge, Pico Ruivo, and Serradinho. This notebook primarily focuses on the geological features and formations Lyell saw across Madeira and includes a vast number of...
Dates: January 1854 - February 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.192, February 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/192
Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. This notebook is from February 1854 and covers Charles Lyell’s travels around the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo with specific notes on Sao Vicente, Curral das Freiras, Pico Santo, Santo António, Pico Ruivo, Funchal, Pico Grande, Câmara de Lobos, Boqueirão, Santa Cruz, Porto Novo, Pico dos Bodes, Caminho do Pico da...
Dates: February 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.193, 19 February 1854 - 15 March 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/193
Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around Madeira and the Canary Islands with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. and is one of the longest. It starts by completing his observations in Madeira, before he goes to Gran Canaria focusing on Las Palmas, Teror, Bandama Caldera, Tafira, Las Rehoyas, Barranco de Guiniguada, Castillo del Ray, Tosca Blanca, Agüimes, Tirajana, and Fataga. This notebook primarily focuses...
Dates: 19 February 1854 - 15 March 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.194, March 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/194
Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around the Canary Islands with Georg Hartung, in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and along with previous notebook 193, is one of the longest. There is a clear date noted on page 1, of 6th March 1854, however, in the separate index recorded in the Madeira Index reference Coll-203/A5/16 dates are given there as 26th – 29th October 1855 – which may reflect the date the index was created. This...
Dates: March 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.195, March 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/195
Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels with George Hartung around Las Palmas, Canary Islands in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and is one of the longest. It starts March 21st, 1854, complying Lyell’s observations in La Palma focusing on Caldera of Palma, Alejanado [Bejenado?], Barranco de las Angustias, Fuencaliente, Tazacorte, Barranco del Pinar, San Pedro, Puerto la Ville, and Santa Cruz de Palma. This notebook primarily...
Dates: March 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.196, March 1854 - April 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/196
Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s geological travels around the Canary Islands with Georg Hartung, Charles Bunbury, Mary Horner, and Frances Horner in the company of Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury. It starts March 23rd, 1854, complying Lyell’s observations in Tenerife focusing on La Orotava, Barranco de las Lajas, San Pedro, Valley of Taoro, Tigaiga, Barranco de la Raya, Mount Teide, Güímar, La Canada de los Guancheros, Degollado del Cedro, Icod et Alto,...
Dates: March 1854 - April 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.197, April 1854 - August 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/197
Scope and Contents This black notebook covers the months between April and August 1854, recording Charles Lyell's final travel in Madeira and the Canary Islands, includes his voyage home and ends in London. Some of the key locations this notebook discusses are Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Madeira, Baranco de Santos, and Pico De Cruz. The beginning of this notebook includes sketches and notes on the geological formations of Madeira and Tenerife including dikes, alluvium, basalt, tuff, columnar lava and breccia. Whilst...
Dates: April 1854 - August 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.198, 9 August 1854 - 22 December 1854

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/198
Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s notes and travels from August 1854 to January 1855 whilst in Southern England after his return from Maderia. Lyell is in London, Liverpool, Mildenhall, Icklingham, and at Maidenhead on the way to Bowood. Key individuals in this notebook include Pedro Maffiote (geologist), Roderick Murchison (geologist), Edward Forbes (naturalist), Andrew Ramsay (geologist), Alcide d'Orbigny (naturalist), Georg Hartung (geologist), Charles Darwin...
Dates: 9 August 1854 - 22 December 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands, 1854-1856

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/2 (Lyell 2)
Scope and Contents This series contains the information gathered by Sir Charles Lyell on a visit to Madeira and the Canary Islands, accompanied by Mary Lyell, and Charles and Frances Bunbury, and their servants, in the winter of 1853 until the spring of 1854. Lyell met up with, and worked intensively alongside Georg Hartung. They studied the volcanic and geological features of the island including fossils and shells. There is a detailed 'Index to the Notebooks on Geology of Madeira' in the series of...
Dates: 1854-1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Notes and Indices, October 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 1-27
Scope and Contents Packet of notes, marked Madeira B: MS [manuscript] Notes with Hartung October 1854 MS Index to Dana Features original sketches of geological features by Lyell, including vents of a volcano, similar to that of Arran in Notebook 62 - and notes relating to articles [Lyell creates an 'index' to the articles for reference]. Notes on Dana's paper [referred to as Canary Isles and Madeira paper, actual title not given] Covers Origins of Caldera of Palma. Index...
Dates: October 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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