Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (née Horner)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1873
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Papers relating to Published Works, c1840 - c1855
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B18
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and loose illustrative plates and maps. See also Coll-203/12 for similar material.
'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Contains part index to Notebook 195, reference Coll-203/A1/195. See also Coll-203/2 from which this item may...
Dates:
c1840 - c1855
Notebook No.168, 7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/168
Scope and Contents
This notebook follows on from notebook 167, dates from 7 July to 21 or 22 July 1851 and relates particularly to Lyell’s visit to French Flanders and Belgium to compare Tertiary strata there with those of England, the results of which he published in 1852 “On the Tertiary strata of Belgium and French Flanders”, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1852, Vol 8, 277-370. Read at the Geological Society on 5 May 1852. The notebook starts before he left England, with to-do lists (“Mem.”)...
Dates:
7 July 1851 - 21 or 22 July 1851