Jackson, Charles Thomas, 1805-1880 (American physician and scientist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: June 21, 1805 - August 28, 1880
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Foster, John Wells to Charles Lyell, 2 February 1846 - 30 January 1853
File — Box Box 1.4: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/81
Scope and Contents
Written whilst in Zanesville, Ohio, and Brimfield, Massachusetts. Subjects include Casteroides, limestone, sandstone, Silurian, schist, a comparison of fossil elephants from Ohio and Oregon, and, the U.S. government. The summaries created by Lyell and his team are given below:
Foster of Zanesville on Casteroides & Mountain Limestone of Ohio Feb[ruar]y 2nd 1846 [supplement is written in light pencil]...
Dates:
2 February 1846 - 30 January 1853
Letters from Gould, Augustus Addison to Charles Lyell, May 1842 - April 1865
File — Box Box 1.5: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/96
Scope and Contents
This correspondence from A.A. Gould to Charles Lyell is mainly concerned with meetings, writings, and work of their mutual colleagues and friends. Lyell or his team, have summarised the letters, either on the envelope, or on the letter itself - usually in the space allocated to the address. Where there is a summary, it has been transcribed here.
'Dr. Gould List of Massach[usetts] shells' May 1842
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Dates:
May 1842 - April 1865
Letters from Jackson, Charles Thomas to Charles Lyell, 22 March 1845 - 20 September 1866
File — Box Box 1.7: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/142
Scope and Contents
The correspondence between Charles Thomas Jackson and Charles Lyell mainly concerns the geology of the United States and Jackson's discoveries. Specific subjects include: Ether, New Brunswick, Paleonisci, and Abraham Gesner. Lyell or his team, have summarised the letters, either on the envelope, or on the letter itself - usually in the space allocated to the address. Where there is a summary, it has been transcribed here.
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Dates:
22 March 1845 - 20 September 1866
Letters from Ticknor, Prof. George (of Boston, Massachusetts), to Charles Lyell, 14 December 1843 - 20 January 1861
File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/96
Scope and Contents
Large folder of letters written from Boston, Massachusetts, including letter from Anna Ticknor to Mary Lyell:
Letter relates to the history of slavery in the United States, with commentary on current affairs, with references to Nat Turner's Rebellion [Southampton Insurrection], abolitionism, slavery, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Virginia Debate of 1832. First eight pages are in the handwriting of...
Dates:
14 December 1843 - 20 January 1861
Letters from Wyman, J to Charles Lyell, 14 September 1846 - 4 October 1856
File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/306
Scope and Contents
The correspondence between Charles Lyell and J. Wyman is mainly concerned with geology and natural history of North America. Specific subjects in the letters include: Louis Agassiz, W.B. Rogers, Herman Van Meyer, Geology of Newfoundland, and Megatherium. Many of the letters include diagrams drawn by Wyman.
'Natchez blind animal Selidotherium [sic Scelidotherium]'. The letter includes a diagram of a...
Dates:
14 September 1846 - 4 October 1856
Notebook No.94, October 1841 - December 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/94
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains field and travel notes by Charles Lyell while in North America, traveling between Philadelphia and Boston. There are multiple sketches and sections of geological formations, notes of lecture tickets and items 'to do' on certain dates, notes referring to lectures attended, and items borrowed. Page 67 is a sketch which appears to be Lyell planning the coloured illustration of Niagara as featured in 'Travels'. Page 74 appears to show the layout of Lyell's...
Dates:
October 1841 - December 1841
Notebook No.98, February 1842 - April 1842
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/98
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from his travels through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily daily journal entries, lists, and sketches. The covers are plain, and the edges of the pages are tipped in green ink. There is a plan for New York on p. 37. The index is located at the back of the notebook. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied...
Dates:
February 1842 - April 1842
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.180, October 1852 - October 1852
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/180
Scope and Contents
Notebook 180 begins in mid-October and ends in late December 1852. Lyell is in the United States, traveling in the Boston area and giving a six-week lecture series for the Lowell Institute. In the first half of the notebook, Lyell is working with Louis Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman to identify the bones found while in Joggins, Nova Scotia. On December 1st, the Lyells departed on the steamship Asia for Liverpool, arriving on December 12th. The last section of the notebook continues with geologic...
Dates:
October 1852 - October 1852