Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (née Horner)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1873
Found in 231 Collections and/or Records:
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
Notebook No.118, 19 September 1844 - 30 April 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/118
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from September 19, 1844 to April 30, 1845 while in London. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-114. Notes are in pencil and ink – and there are several different hands writing in this notebook including Mary Lyell. The Notebook starts with a continuation of the work relating to the Haswell Pit Disaster. There are many notes relating to the United States and Lyell's manuscript for his book 'Travels in North America,...
Dates:
19 September 1844 - 30 April 1845
Notebook No.134, 21 February 1846 - 28 February 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/134
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 20 - 28 February 1846 while traveling around Mobile (Alabama) and New Orleans (Louisiana). The index is written by Mary Lyell and is located in the back of the notebook on pages 105, 107, 109, 111-115, and one unnumbered page. Notes are in pencil and ink, and include field sketches. Content warning: Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence,...
Dates:
21 February 1846 - 28 February 1846
Notebook No.135, 1 March 1846 - 6 March 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/135
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from his travels on the Mississippi River, through Louisiana and New Orleans over a period of 6 days in March 1846. This notebook covers geology and ecology along the Mississippi River, Balize swamp and Pontchartrain estuary around New Orleans, Louisianna. Lyell also takes notes on Creole culture, race relations and politics in this region. Far few people are mentioned, and the notes are mostly observational, and with references to old sources....
Dates:
1 March 1846 - 6 March 1846
Notebook No.137, 13 March 1846 - 20 March 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/137
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from March 13 to March 20, 1846, while traveling in Natchez, Jackson, Mississippi. Notes are in pencil and ink and include field sketches. The index is written by Mary Lyell and is located in the back of the notebook on pages 109-115. Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own observation, by reviewing other people's works, by correspondence,...
Dates:
13 March 1846 - 20 March 1846
Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning:
This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates:
15 June 1846 - July 1846
Notebook No.148, September 1846 - December 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/148
Scope and Contents
This black notebook contains a record on Charles Lyell’s discussions, theories, and ideas in London - with detailed notes of a social nature, of a visit to Bowood - after his return from his second visit to the U.S (Notebooks 121-145). In this notebook, he covers events and locations from both the U.S and the U.K including Durham, Richmond Valley, Harley Street, Prince Edward Island, Mildenhall, New York, etc. Lyell’s comments on America are profuse, but they don’t appear to have made it...
Dates:
September 1846 - December 1846
Notebook No.158, 16 December 1848 - 14 August 1849
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/158
Scope and Contents
This notebook is a record of Charles Lyell’s memoranda, writings, and reflections from 16 December 1848 - 14 August 1849 while he was in London and at Kinnordy. Approximately the first two thirds of the notebook covers his time in London, followed by his return to Kinnordy [definitively stated to be there as of 10 July 1849]. Lyell was primarily working on the final preparation of his manuscript of A Second Visit to the United States of North America for publication during the time he was in...
Dates:
16 December 1848 - 14 August 1849
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
Notebook No.183, 30 April 1853 - 3 July 1853
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/183
Scope and Contents
Notebook 183 contains notes from 30 April to 3 July 1853. Many pages throughout the notebook are headed "Manual," referencing the fourth edition of Lyell's "A Manual of Elementary Geology." These notes were used in preparation for the fifth edition, which was published in 1855. In May 1853, Lyell embarks on his fourth trip to the United States, serving as Britain's representative at the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. He traveled via the steamship Canada, landing in Nova Scotia on...
Dates:
30 April 1853 - 3 July 1853