Beckles, Samuel Husbands, 12 April 1814 - 4 September 1890 (Bajan/English lawyer and dinosaur hunter, Sussex and the Isle of Wight)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Beckles, Samuel Husbands to Charles Lyell, 25 December 1856 - 13 July 1857
File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/15
Scope and Contents
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Purbeck Oolite
2) Purbeck Dirt bed - December 12th day of finding the fossil mammal's jaw.
Dates:
25 December 1856 - 13 July 1857
Notebook No.197, April 1854 - August 1854
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 7: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/197
Scope and Contents
This black notebook covers the months between April and August 1854, recording Charles Lyell's final travel in Madeira and the Canary Islands, includes his voyage home and ends in London. Some of the key locations this notebook discusses are Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Madeira, Baranco de Santos, and Pico De Cruz. The beginning of this notebook includes sketches and notes on the geological formations of Madeira and Tenerife including dikes, alluvium, basalt, tuff, columnar lava and breccia. Whilst...
Dates:
April 1854 - August 1854