Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 ( Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist.)
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook No.120, 2 September 1845-14 September 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/120
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from Sept 2nd to 14th, 1845 and is noted at the front as being written while in London and aboard the Steamship Britannia. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 109-113 and two unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink. The Steamship Britannia refers to the Cunard Line's RMS Britannia, which began her first regular passenger and cargo service in 1840, sailing from Liverpool to Boston. ...
Dates:
2 September 1845-14 September 1845
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.126, 3 December 1845 - 12 December 1845
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/126
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from December 3, 1845 to December 12, 1845 upon leaving Boston and traveling to Philadelphia, with visits in New Haven, Connecticut and New York City, and further enroute to Washington, D.C. 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, observations, and sketches concerned with geology and natural history,...
Dates:
3 December 1845 - 12 December 1845
Notebook No.140, 5 April 1846 - 14 April 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/140
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from April 5th to April 14, 1846. The notebook starts in Louisville, Kentucky as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River in the steamer Ben Franklin, arriving in Cincinnati on April 7th. On April 13th Lyell resumed travel up the Ohio River, bound for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The index is located in the back of the notebook on eight unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink. Content warning:...
Dates:
5 April 1846 - 14 April 1846
Notebook No.143, 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/143
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Lyell’s notes during his second trip to the United States, dated 5 May 1846, to 11 May 1846. The volume starts with Lyell in Baltimore, travelling through Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, and Troy, New York State. On pg. 12 Lyell notes seeing a humming bird in Miss Watson's Greenhouse. Lyell spends much of his time in upstate New York with a few colleagues: Joseph Cogswell (American librarian), Ebenezer Emmons (American Geologist), James Hall (American...
Dates:
4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846
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- New York City (New York, United States) 3
- Museums 2
- Sea Monsters 2
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) 1
- Alabama (United States) 1
- America 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 1
- Brachiopoda, Fossil 1
- Cherokee 1
- Demerara 1
- Dinosaurs 1
- Fossil Fish 1
- Fossils 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene 1
- Hummingbirds 1
- Icebergs 1
- Locofoco Party (N.Y.) 1
- Louisiana (United States) 1
- Lymnaea stagnalis 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Mexico 1
- Mollusks 1
- Orthoceras 1
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America 1
- Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (United States) 1
- Red admiral (Insect) 1
- Ships 1
- Slavery--United States 1
- Spiriferida 1
- Stockbrokers 1
- Texas (United States) 1
- Upstate New York (N.Y.) 1 + ∧ less
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