Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1809 - 1882
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.85, 21 October 1840-8 December 1840
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/85
Scope and Contents
This marbled paper and red leather notebook includes Charles Lyell's geological notes on Kinnordy and surrounding area, as well as other areas of Scotland, illustrated with a watercolor cross section on page 61. There are also 'to do' lists, notes on correspondence sent, meeting agendas and lists of persons to whom papers were sent, and notes on conversations with Agassiz. He makes more observations on glacial moraines, and lists of Faluns fossils. Notes are in pencil and ink and complete...
Dates:
21 October 1840-8 December 1840
Notebook No.99, April 1842- May 1842
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/99
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook with green edged pages contains Charles Lyell's diverse notes from his travels through New England - Baltimore - Harpers Ferry - Cumberland Gap. Notes are in pencil and ink and are daily journal entries, lists, small and large sketches, and observations. The index is located at the back of the notebook. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning...
Dates:
April 1842- May 1842
Notebook No.105, 27 September 1842 - 10 December 1842
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/105
Scope and Contents
This green leather notebook contains diverse notes on geology of Perthshire, London, and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and proceedings likely of the Geological Society of London. Starts with the inclusion of a poem by Thomas Moore. The index also appears to feature the first mention to Hamilton Couper by Lyell, who notes his paper. The index is written on the final three pages of the notebook, the front and back covers are blank. ...
Dates:
27 September 1842 - 10 December 1842
Notebook No.107, 2 March 1843- 22 May 1843
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/107
Scope and Contents
Notes, many on American geology, thoughts on theories of Geologists Henry Woodward, W. Morris, and the inventor Charles Babbage, expenses related to future lectures, and plans to go to Cork, Ireland. This index is not in Lyell's own words, but is notes from working with the notebook in the process of cataloguing. A complete index in Lyell's own words will be published in due course. Index...
Dates:
2 March 1843- 22 May 1843
Notebook No.114, 7 October 1843- January 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/114
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from his travels through Scotland (started in previous notebook, Number 113) and return to London. On the 14th December he is with Darwin. It is dated October 7, 1843 to January 1844. Notes are in pencil and ink.The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-116. Page 48 lists the ‘state of the M.S. Notebooks and seems to refer to a review – perhaps creating the index? - of the Scientific Notebooks 94 to 96 as well as...
Dates:
7 October 1843- January 1844
Notebook No.115, January 1844- May 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/115
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from January to May 1844 while in London. Notes are in pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 112-115. From pp.20-22, 32 - with Darwin Lyell's own index Index
London Jan[uary] to May 1844.
p. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Acc[ount]. with C. Sowerby
p. 3 Latin poetry, De ape electro inclusa
- [p. 3 Latin poetry] De vipera...
Dates:
January 1844- May 1844
Notebook No.119, 4 May 1845- August 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/119
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from May 4th to August 1845 while in London and at Kinnordy in Scotland. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-117. Notes are in pencil and ink. Transcription note The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known,...
Dates:
4 May 1845- August 1845
Notebook No.125, 4 November 1845 - 3 December 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/125
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains a record of the Lyell’s stay in Boston from 4th November to 3rd December 1845. The notes are comprised of discussions about politics and religion, supplemented by commentary about social life, in New England and the United States more broadly, plus field notes and observations about geology and natural history, encompassing descriptions and sketches of regions in anticipation of future field excursions (the Claiborne Formation). Charles visits notable sites in Boston...
Dates:
4 November 1845 - 3 December 1845
Notebook No.128, 25 December 1845-2 January 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/128
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from December 25 1845 to January 2nd 1846 while traveling through Charleston (South Carolina), Savannah (Georgia), and Darien (Georgia). The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 115 and nine unumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink and include field sketches. An X is used to mark a pencil cross made at certain entries. A date written in the left margin has been inserted at the beginning of the appropriate...
Dates:
25 December 1845-2 January 1846
Notebook No.129, 3 January 1846 - 10 January 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/129
Scope and Contents
Notebook No. 129 was kept by Lyell during his trip to America in 1845-6, mostly written in pencil, after his lecture tour, with visits to Hopeton Plantation, St. Simon's Island, and Georgia. It contains his observations while he visited several plantations worked by enslaved people extracted from undocumented regions of Africa, and bought at auction. Mr. and Mrs. Lyell stayed with James Hamilton Couper at Hopeton plantation for two weeks in January 1846. Couper was a member of the British...
Dates:
3 January 1846 - 10 January 1846
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