Wood, E.R, Colonel, fl 1861 (of Stouthall, Swansea, cave explorer and collector)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Wigham, J B to Charles Lyell, 26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
File — Box Box 1.13: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/290
Scope and Contents
Mr. J. B. Wigham was writing from Heigham in Norfolk. In his death notice, dated 26th December 1851, in the Norfolk Chronicle, Wigham is described as "a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, and was well known as having personally collected one of the best cabinets of tertiary fossils in the kingdom". Teh main themes of the letters are shells, Crags, Norfolk/Norwich, and Sand pipes, and they are summarised as:
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Dates:
26 February 1839 - 12 December 1839
Notebook No.86, 8 December 1840 - 4 February 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/86
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes in ink, occasional pencil, mostly relates to notes on Touraine shells and notes by Mr Bunbury. Short index written in the back of the notebook, along with a list of Touraine shells - and there are links between this list and correspondence with Colonel E.R. Wood. Covers are blank. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the...
Dates:
8 December 1840 - 4 February 1841