Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator)
Person
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Buckley, A.B., to Charles Lyell, 16 March 1865
File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/18
Scope and Contents
Discussion on the habits of pigeons alighting on trees
Dates:
16 March 1865
Letter to The Geological Club, from Charles Lyell, 27 February 1874
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/6
Scope and Contents
Written by Arabella Buckley. Summarised as 'Lyell - answer to Geol. Club Testimonial'. Includes Lyell's comment "I can truly say that my fifty years of intercourse with the Club has been uninterrupted by a single jar. and if during so long a period as half a century many of my deariest friends & companions have, in the course of nature, passed away yet my feelings towards those of a younger generation who fill their places is one of the warmest interest & pleasure as I see them...
Dates:
27 February 1874
Notebook No.248, 30 March 1863 - 29 July 1863
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/248
Scope and Contents
This dark green Notebook documents Lyell's work whilst in London, and on location in Suffolk and Kent, Lyell is considering the antiquity of man, flints, hatchets and heights and depths of sea levels. The two previous notebooks 246 and 247 - have no indexes. This notebook is the first one featuring Lyell's Secretary, Arabella Buckley. Born in 1840, Buckley started to work as secretary to Lyell at the age of 24, and remained with him until his death in 1875. The index starts in Lyell's own...
Dates:
30 March 1863 - 29 July 1863
Notebook No.249, 30 July 1863- April 1864
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/249
Scope and Contents
Red leather bound notebook, dated July 30 1863 to April 1864 covering Lyell's research in Wales, including mountains - Moel Tryfan, Snowdon - quarries caves and beaches. Lists significant corrections necessary for 'Antiquity of Man'. Lyell's own index Index
July 30 1863 to April 1864
p. 1 Llanberis. Lakes of
- [Llanberis] Perched block
- Tarn near in [perched block]
p. 3 Absence of shells...
Dates:
30 July 1863- April 1864
Notebook No.251, 8 June 1865-2 August 1865
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/251
Scope and Contents
This dark red Notebook details Lyell's travels in Bavaria, Germany, joined by Mary, Leonard Lyell, his secretary Arabella Buckley, and expert companions. The book contains detailed drawings, notes and queries. The itinerary begins on page 4 on 8th June 1865 in London, before Lyell travels to Dover, Calais, Luxembourg, Burgen, Coblenz, Frankfurt then to Kissengen, Nuremberg. Munich, Innsbruck, Klobenstein, Finsterbach, Eiggshorn, Viesch and Aletsch Glaciers before descending into Italy,...
Dates:
8 June 1865-2 August 1865
Notebook No.254, August 1868-1 March 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/254
Scope and Contents
This dark red Notebook starts in London with Mary and Leonard Lyell, and documents travels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an index created by Arabella Buckley. Lyell studies submerged forests, beaches, caves and iron works making notes and sketches, and referencing experts as well as local guides. Several meetings 'with Darwin'. Final pages relate to Grindle Pit, Bury St Edmunds, with sections written by Buckley that appear to be dictated by Lyell. ...
Dates:
August 1868-1 March 1869
Notebook No.255, 18 March 1869-28 April 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/255
Scope and Contents
This dark red Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook documents work based along the coast of Norfolk, as Lyell travels with Mary [presumed as she is not mentioned], Buckley and his nephew Leonard Lyell - who is credited with observations and finds. From Norfolk, they head to Hull and Withernsea. In this Notebook, not every page is numbered. This Notebook contains sections where Buckley describes their field work, recording observations like...
Dates:
18 March 1869-28 April 1869
Notebook No.256, 20 April 1869-10 September 1869
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/256
Scope and Contents
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 20 April 1869 to 10 September 1869. Lyell starts in England and travels through Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, with special attention to the Lake District. He then travels to Scotland, and from Edinburgh through Perthshire and the Highlands. Transcription note: This notebook was written by Charles, Mary and Arabella Buckley. The index is written entirely by...
Dates:
20 April 1869-10 September 1869
Notebook No.257, September 1869- April 1870
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/257
Transcription note:
This dark green notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 10 September 1869 to 23 April 1870, and continues from the previous volume (256) starting in Scotland. Lyell travels from the Scottish Highlands, to Glasgow and Dumfries, then onto Devonshire, Suffolk, Somerset, and finishes back in Devon. Lyell attends meetings of various Societies, and writes about his correspondence with and the work of other notable researchers of the time. ...
Dates:
September 1869- April 1870
Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870-3 July 1871
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/258
Scope and Contents
This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle...
Dates:
22 April 1870-3 July 1871
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- Caves 3
- Elephant bones 3
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 3
- Moel Tryfan 3
- Bones 2
- Glen Clova 2
- Lake District (England) 2
- Lancaster (England) 2
- Raised Beaches 2
- Roy, Glen (Highland, Scotland) 2
- Abbeville Jaw 1
- Aldborough (North Yorkshire, England) 1
- Amiens (France) 1
- Angus (Scotland) 1
- Artesian wells 1
- Arthur's Seat (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
- Arthur, King (Legendary Character) 1
- Assynt, Loch (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Athenæum Club (London, England) 1
- Aurignacian culture 1
- Aurignacian culture--France 1
- Australia -- Queensland 1
- Awe, Loch (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) 1
- Bangor (Wales) 1
- Barry Island (Barry, Wales) 1
- Ben Nevis Kilmallie (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Blair Atholl (Scotland) 1
- Bordeaux, France 1
- Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France 1
- Caledonian Canal (Scotland) 1
- Cambridge (England) 1
- Campsie (Scotland) 1
- Ceratodus 1
- Clay 1
- Cromer (England) 1
- Cumbria (England) 1
- Darwinism 1
- Demerara 1
- Devon, England 1
- Drift 1
- Druids and druidism 1
- Drumkilbo (Perthshire, Scotland) 1
- Dumfries (Scotland) 1
- Ely (England) 1
- England -- Suffolk 1
- Falls of Foyers (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Folkestone (England) 1
- Formations (Geology) 1
- Fort Augustus, Highland, Scotland 1
- Fossil Wood 1
- Fossil shells 1
- Fossils 1
- Fossils, Classification of 1
- Geology Museums 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene 1
- Germany 1
- Glacial Epoch 1
- Glaciation 1
- Glaciers 1
- Glasgow (Scotland) 1
- Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland 1
- Gold mines and mining 1
- Guiana 1
- Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales 1
- Herne Bay (England) 1
- Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil 1
- Hoxne (England) 1
- Hull (England) 1
- Invergarry Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Iron-works 1
- Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire, Scotland 1
- Italy 1
- Kilmarnock (Scotland) 1
- Kilmaurs (Scotland) 1
- Laggan, Loch (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Leeds (England) 1
- Lichfield (England) 1
- Llandudno (Wales) 1
- Lochranza 1
- Lomond, Loch (Scotland) 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence from 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 1
- Malta 1
- Mammalian remains (Archaeology) 1
- Margate, Kent, England 1
- Martello towers 1
- Mastodon 1
- Menai Straits Bridge (Wales) 1
- Moray Firth (Highland, Scotland) 1
- Museums 1
- New Caledonia (Colony) 1
- New Zealand 1
- Norfolk (England) 1
- Orthoceras 1
- Paleolithic period 1
- Paris basin (France) 1
- Pembrokeshire (Wales) 1
- Penrith (England) 1
- Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 1
- Pits 1 + ∧ less
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