Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 (English scientist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 22 September 1791 - 25 August 1867
Created for
Charles Lyell Project, June 2021
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence - Letters to Sir Charles Lyell from his family, 1839-1841
Series — Box Lyell Box 3.6: Series Coll-203/B5
Identifier: Coll-203/B5
Scope and Contents
Series containing letters written to Charles Lyell, one from his father Charles Lyell (1767–1849) dated 1841 and three letters from other family members c.1839:
To Charles and Mary, from Henry Lyell, near Sukkur [Pakistan] 15th February 1839
At Kinnordy, letter to Charles Lyell from his father Charles Lyell Senior, advising to take care of both his own, and Mary's health 'do not fancy...
Dates:
1839-1841
"F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers", 1808-1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-1997/2
Scope and Contents
This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author.
Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...
Dates:
1808-1897
Miscellaneous letters A-J, 1791- 1884
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B2/1
Scope and Contents
Letters addressed to Charles Lyell, to Lady Mary Lyell, Katharine Lyell and other recipients including:
'A' Undated note from [Ahoard?] on Baron Steuben, accompanied by an original signed bank cheque written to pay T Lopez twenty dollars in New York 6th February 1791
'B' 22 June 1870 from O Becconi
'C' Undated letter, to 'dear friend' but likely to be...
Dates:
1791- 1884
Notebook No.78, 12 August 1839 - 17 October 1839
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 3: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/78
Scope and Contents
This dark maroon coloured leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's specimen lists, to do lists, notes from colleagues publications, sketches, many blank pages. Miscellaneous notes; pp.21-22 - References to Darwin's 'Glen Roy' paper. Front and back cover are blank, index is p. 115-6. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from...
Dates:
12 August 1839 - 17 October 1839
Notebook No.117, 1 August 1844 - 18 September 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/117
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 1 August to 18 September 1844 while in London. It then continues through 26 September to 2 October in York. He visits T.S. Spedding at Mirehouse on Bassenthwaite. The final section of the notebook, through 21 October, pertains to Lyell and Michael Faraday’s participation in an inquiry of the 1844 Haswell coal mine explosion that killed 95 people. Notes are in a mixture of pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the...
Dates:
1 August 1844 - 18 September 1844
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