Adams, Charles Baker, 1814-1853 (American educator and naturalist)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Adams, Charles Baker to Charles Lyell, 5 December 1845
File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/3
Scope and Contents
Summarised as 'Shells of of the Gulf of Champlain - Pleistocene'. Adams writes of his geological report on shells of the Gulf of Champlain, which Adams wishes to appeal not to a geologist, but to a community who do not know there is a structure to the Earth - "intending to form an opinion, constrained by the facts observed". Lists fossils which he has to hand from these deposits. Letter is headed with an illustration of Middlebury College, alongside is a note in pencil that the scene and...
Dates:
5 December 1845
Notebook No.179, October 1852 - December 1852
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/179
Scope and Contents
Notebook 179 begins in late September and ends in mid-October 1852. Lyell starts at the New York Harbour, then travels on to Albany (New York), Amherst (Massachusetts), Bellow Falls and Brandon (Vermont), and examines the boulder trails in Canaan and Richmond Valleys of Berkshire Massachusetts. At times, Lyell traveled with James Hall and Edward Hitchcock. Transcription note: This notebook is written in ink and pencil and does not include an...
Dates:
October 1852 - December 1852