Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik, 1832-1901 ( Finnish-Swedish Geologist, Mineralogist and Arctic Explorer)

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 Summarised by Lyell as: 1) Notes on normal water levels in the Baltic from a variety of academic papers 2) Rise of land in Norway according to Theodor Kjerulf 3) Discussions of Dr Adolf Nordenskiölds papers and secular use of Stockholm, 4) Geology of Sweden and Stockholm, 5) Drawing of cliff formation at Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, 6) Use of land in Sweden, 7) Exchange of academic papers between Lyell and others, 8) Translation of Dr...