Bunbury, Edward Herbert, 1811 - 1895 ( English Barrister and a British Liberal Party politician )

Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author. Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...

Scope and Contents Letters summarised by Lyell as: 1) French Geology. Also a review of the social season; Bunbury misses the Lyell's very much. 2) [? Summary hard to read]. Plans for his tour of France. 3) Chalk of Mont Perdu 4) On Bacalite limestone of Valognes. Passage of fossil forms thro' successive cretaceous groups. Bunbury reports that [George] Hall a "most invaluable person" is working to arrange his collections, "indeed withouth his help I do not think I should...