Jackson, Charles Thomas, 1805-1880 (American physician and scientist)

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...

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...