Ziegler, Jakob Melchior, 1801 – 1883 (Swiss geographer, cartographer, publisher and politician)

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent. Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the letter itself, or, on the associated envelope. These summaries have been used as the basis of the catalogue...

Scope and Contents Includes work on Fossil plants of Santa Jorge, Madeira by Heer [is Lyell's writing], Index list to Canary Island specimens of rocks - Lanzarote, Fuerventura, Tenerife, Madeira, Grand Canary; Georg Hartung's notes on Porto Santo and Madeira [possibly Bunbury's writing]; Fossil plants from the Lignite beds of Santa Jorge [possibly Mary Lyell's writing]; titles of plants by Hartung; Hartung's notes on Serra d'Agoa, Pico Serrido, Meio Medade, S. Vincent, including drawings and Funchal Directory...