Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist)

Scope and Contents This dark brown leather notebook with yellow edged pages contains notes by Charles Lyell primarily in ink and include lists, sketches, and longer form essays, chiefly notes on the Crag and Crag fossils. The index is located on p. 71, the final leaf and back inside cover. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital...

Scope and Contents This red leather notebook focusses on Charles Lyell's study of Norwich shells and crags, with George Sowerby and others. Other than a tour of Cambridge, he seems to be based in London in this notebook. He lists specimens and queries for colleagues including other collectors, such as Captain Alexander, and Mrs. Powers [Madame Jeannette Power, who is noted in the Magazine of Natural history 1839 as having formed a collection of Argonauta in 1838, and publishes in 1839]. From p. 19 and p. 46,...