Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 (American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church)

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...