Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (née Horner)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1873
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Drafts of future lectures for Royal Institution, or US, 19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B14/12
Scope and Contents
A series of drafts - short and long notes - and lists of illustrations which are mostly unidentified as to which institution they were prepared for - but all relate to coal. They were possibly prepared as lectures to the Royal Institution, or as new lectures for the US - both titles appear within these notes. Most are undated, some are dated March and May 1850.
'Notes for future lectures on Coal', draft...
Dates:
19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851
Notebook No.103 - ABSENT, July 1842
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/103
Scope and Contents
This notebook is absent from Lyell's original run of 266 Scientific notebooks. Through the work of Leonard G. Wilson, copies have been identified, and used to create this catalogue entry.
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from mid to late July of 1842 starting en route from Montreal to Boston. He then takes the Caledonia steamer from Boston to Nova Scotia. The majority of this notebook contains geologic observations of places in Nova Scotia such as Halifax, Windsor,...
Dates:
July 1842