Dechen , Heinrich Ernst von , 1800-1889 (German Geologist)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Hartmann, Carl Friedrich Alexander to Charles Lyell, 10 August 1832 - 10 August 1839
File — Box Box 1.6: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/121
Scope and Contents
Hartmann was the German translator of Principles of Geology. Correspondence includes sketches and drawings and relates to the translation of Principles; the death of Friedrich Hoffmann; and the translation of Elements.
Dates:
10 August 1832 - 10 August 1839
Notebook No.244, 23 July 1860-1 November 1860
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/244
Scope and Contents
Teal coloured leather Notebook documents Lyell’s travels from Liege to Bonn, Weimar to London. During this time, he is preparing the manuscript for his ‘The Antiquity of Man’. The research in this Notebook significantly changes his plans for the manuscript. The importance of this Notebook is highlighted by Claudine Cohen in the article ‘Charles Lyell and the evidences of the Antiquity of Man’ published 1998. Transcription note The following...
Dates:
23 July 1860-1 November 1860
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- Bones 1
- Bonn (Germany) 1
- Cologne (Germany) 1
- Elephant bones 1
- Gastropoda, Fossil. 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 1
- Liège (Belgium) 1
- Loess 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 1
- Maastricht, Netherlands 1
- Manuscript Preparation (Authorship) 1
- Miocene Epoch 1
- Neanderthals 1
- Saint-Acheul, France 1
- Siebengebirge (Germany) 1
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