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Wood, Searles Valentine, February 14, 1798 – October 26, 1880 (English palaeontologist)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Wood, Searles Valentine Senior to Charles Lyell, 8 May 1839 - 2 October 1873

 File — Box Box 1.14: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1); Series Coll-203/1B
Identifier: Coll-203/1/299
Scope and Contents

Small watercolour map of Norfolk Crag near the River Bure.

Dates: 8 May 1839 - 2 October 1873

Madeira - Notes, Indexes, 5 November 1856 - 1857

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A4/1
Scope and Contents Dark green to black leather soft cover notebook with marbled end paper, paginated in handwritten ink. Identified with side label 'Mad-eira Index Manual 55' and on the front with a label 'Madeira p1-53 Notes [amended text] 1856 C.L. and on the next line, Manual [underlined] new Ed[ition] [from] p.55 Indexes'. Also contains notes on Lyell's preparation for an edition of his Manual of Elementary Geology. Summary index: This notebook does not...
Dates: 5 November 1856 - 1857

Notebook No.151, 8 March 1847 - 24 April 1847

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/151
Scope and Contents London. This notebook has no index, and a part index appears in the Index Notebook series reference Coll-203/A5/2. On p.59 there are notes of conversation with Prince Albert, on University reform. Lyell's own index: 1847 p. 23 Land in Coal Period why where now [now where] the Atlantic. This made the plants the same and the shells very different species. p. 26 England surrounded by a submarine plain. Ramsay. p. 26 Subsidence of...
Dates: 8 March 1847 - 24 April 1847