Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1873
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index, June 1856
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
Scope and Contents
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
Madeira and Canaries Notebook, 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859
Item
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
Madeira and Canary Islands, 1853 - 1856
File
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
Madeira and Canary Islands Notebooks , 1856-1859
Series
Identifier: Coll-203/A4
Scope and Contents
Two notebooks created to contain work, with Georg Hartung, and others, relating to Madeira – with references to Canary Islands, Gran Canarias, Tenerife and the Azores. No indexes in either, the notebooks record discussions, reading, and include drawings and copy letters (in Mary's writing) on volcanoes, lava slopes, shells, elevations and upheaval.
Dates:
1856-1859
Madeira - Notes, Indexes, 5 November 1856 - 1857
Item
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
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.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