Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist)
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
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
Notebook No.87, February 1841- June 1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/87
Scope and Contents
This dark leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes which appear to be continuation of discussion on Touraine shells, notes of list of books to go to America, notes on correspondence sent and received, and notes on lectures. On p. 106 Lyell makes reference to Timothy Abbot Conrad's New York Geological Survey of 1840. The covers of the notebook are blank, the index is written on the last pages of the book. The following table of...
Dates:
February 1841- June 1841
Notebook No.114, 7 October 1843- January 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/114
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from his travels through Scotland (started in previous notebook, Number 113) and return to London. On the 14th December he is with Darwin. It is dated October 7, 1843 to January 1844. Notes are in pencil and ink.The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-116. Page 48 lists the ‘state of the M.S. Notebooks and seems to refer to a review – perhaps creating the index? - of the Scientific Notebooks 94 to 96 as well as...
Dates:
7 October 1843- January 1844
Notebook No.115, January 1844- May 1844
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/115
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from January to May 1844 while in London. Notes are in pencil and ink. The notebook index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 112-115. From pp.20-22, 32 - with Darwin Lyell's own index Index
London Jan[uary] to May 1844.
p. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 Acc[ount]. with C. Sowerby
p. 3 Latin poetry, De ape electro inclusa
- [p. 3 Latin poetry] De vipera...
Dates:
January 1844- May 1844
Notebook No.249, 30 July 1863- April 1864
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/249
Scope and Contents
Red leather bound notebook, dated July 30 1863 to April 1864 covering Lyell's research in Wales, including mountains - Moel Tryfan, Snowdon - quarries caves and beaches. Lists significant corrections necessary for 'Antiquity of Man'. Lyell's own index Index
July 30 1863 to April 1864
p. 1 Llanberis. Lakes of
- [Llanberis] Perched block
- Tarn near in [perched block]
p. 3 Absence of shells...
Dates:
30 July 1863- April 1864
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Shells 6
- Anthracite coal 2
- Bones 2
- Geology 2
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cretaeceous 2
- Miocene Epoch 2
- North Carolina United States of America 2
- Norwich (England) 2
- Nova Scotia (Canada) 2
- Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1
- Ammonites (Mollusks) 1
- Angus (Scotland) 1
- Aurignacian culture 1
- Bahía Blanca (Argentina) 1
- Bangor (Wales) 1
- Blackdown Hills (England) 1
- Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 1
- Cachalot 1
- Caves 1
- Climate 1
- Coal 1
- Corals 1
- Crassatella 1
- Drift 1
- Elephant bones 1
- England -- Oxfordshire -- Oxford 1
- Etna, Mount (Italy) 1
- Falkland Islands 1
- Falmouth (Cornwall) 1
- Falun (Sweden) 1
- Fossil shells 1
- Geologists 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 1
- Glacial Epoch 1
- Great Britain 1
- Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales 1
- Himalaya Mountains 1
- Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil 1
- Iguanodon 1
- Latin poetry 1
- Limestone 1
- Llandudno (Wales) 1
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 1
- Madeira Islands 1
- Magnesian limestone 1
- Mammalia 1
- Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 1
- Mastodon 1
- Menai Straits Bridge (Wales) 1
- Moel Tryfan 1
- Mollusks 1
- Naturalists 1
- New Zealand 1
- Nigg (Ross and Cromarty) 1
- Obsidian 1
- Old Red Sandstone 1
- Oolite 1
- Pampas 1
- Professional Interaction 1
- Professional Recognition 1
- Publishers and Publishing 1
- Puy-de-Dôme (France : Department) 1
- Schists 1
- Severn River (Wales and England) 1
- Shale 1
- Sharks 1
- Shell-bearing limestone -- Muschelkalk -- Calcaire coquillier 1
- Sidlaw Hills (Scotland) 1
- Snowdon (Wales) 1
- South Carolina United States of America 1
- Staffordshire (England) 1
- Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1
- Taxation 1
- United States 1
- United States -- Ohio 1
- Virginia (United States) 1
- Wales -- Gwynedd -- Caernarfon 1
- Whales 1
- silurian 1 + ∧ less
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