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Christian VIII of Denmark, 31 May [1834]; 1835; 15 October 1836

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Identifier: Coll-1989/15
Scope and Contents This is an autograph letter signed, in French, sent from Christian VIII of Denmark to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 15 October 1836, Copenhagen. It concerns Lyell's research in Denmark and the Prince's collection of fossile molluscs. There is also a 1 page letter on behalf of Prince Christian Frederick dated 31 May [1834] and a lithograph portrait of Christian VIII / Christian Frederick from 1835."J’ai reçue quoique tard, au mois de Juillet, la lettre que Vous m’avez adressée en date...
Dates: 31 May [1834]; 1835; 15 October 1836

Commonplace Book - Extracts by Charles Lyell - Prose and Verse, 1826

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A2/5
Scope and Contents Small label affixed reads 'Extracts by Charles Lyell Prose & Verse - Crown Office Temple Row'. Commonplace book of notes and quotations compiled by Lyell when a practicing barrister in London in his early twenties. The book is inscribed with his address: 9 Crown Office Row, Temple, where he moved in 1826 after vacating the cramped quarters he had known as a law student in nearby Norfolk Street (no longer in existence, checked 2021). This Notebook is paginated. Insertion at the front of...
Dates: 1826

"F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers", 1808-1897

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Identifier: Coll-1997/2
Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author. Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...
Dates: 1808-1897

Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis Antoine Pagnerre relating to Charles Lyell, 31 December 1850

 Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0048
Scope and Contents

Letter in French from Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis Antoine Pagnerre (Paris publisher of Tocqueville's Democracy in America), relating to the publication of Charles Lyell's book about the USA in French. Tocqueville is asking Pagnerre to publish Lyell's book, saying that Lyell doesn't want any money for it and will provide the engravings plates. Sorrento, Italy, 31 December 1850.

Dates: 31 December 1850

Letter from De La Rive, Auguste, to Charles Lyell, 19th century

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/36
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 19th century

Letter from De Saussure, H., to Charles Lyell, 29 June 1859

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/37
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 29 June 1859

Letter from De Verneuil, E., to Charles Lyell, 22 January 1858

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/38
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 22 January 1858

Letter from Gaudin, Charles T., to Charles Lyell, 4 January 1858

 File — Box Box 3.2: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/43
Scope and Contents

Temple of Serapis

Dates: 4 January 1858

Letter from Guiscardi, Guillaume, to Charles Lyell, 7 February 1858-6 July 1858

 File — Box Box 3.2: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/49
Scope and Contents

'Enclosed - Sketch of volcano, pamphlet entitled 'Notizie del Vesuvio' and various pages of notes

Dates: 7 February 1858-6 July 1858

Letter from Laplace, A.M., to Charles Lyell, 5 February 1850

 File — Box Nox 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/60
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 5 February 1850

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Adler, Johan Gunder, 1784-1852 (Danish civil servant and a co-author of the Constitution of Norway) 1
Airy, Sir George Biddell, 1801-1892 (Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881) 1
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 1
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Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 1
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Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 (French magistrate, prison reformer, and traveller ) 1
Beck, Henrik Henriksen, 1799–1863 (Danish naturalist) 1
Berthelot, Sabin, 4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880 (French naturalist and ethnologist.) 1
Bertrand de Doue, Jacques-Mathieu, 1776 - 1862 (Geologist and first French member of the Geological Society of London, Vice-President of the Meteorological Society of France, Knight of the Legion of Honour) 1
Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de, 1814 -1880 (Belgian paleontologist) 1
Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 1
Breda, Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van, 24 October 1788 - 2 September 1867 (Dutch biologist and geologist) 1
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord, 1788?1824 (sixth Baron Byron | poet ) 1
Castillo, Mr (Mr) 1
Christian VIII, 1786-1848 (King of Denmark) 1
Claparède, René-Édouard, 1832-1871 (Swiss anatomist) 1
Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 1
Delesse, Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph, 3 February 1817 – 24 March 1881 (French geologist and mineralogist) 1
Deshayes, Gerard Paul, 1795-1875 (French geologist and conchologist) 1
Dewalque, Gustave, 1826-1905 (Belgian geologist, mineralogist, cartographer, professor, and author) 1
Dupont, 1841-1911 (Belgian geologist) 1
Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist) 1
Esquerra (Esquerra |) 1
Favre, Alphonse, 1815-1890 (Swiss professor of geology, University of Geneva) 1
Forchhammer, Johan Georg, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist) 1
Gastaldi, Bartolommeo, 10 February 1818 – 5 January 1879 (Italian professor, geologist and paleontologist, and one of the founders of the Club Alpino Italiano) 1
Gaudin, Charles-Théophile, 1822-1866 (Swiss palaeontologist) 1
Gaudin, Charles-Théophile, 1822-1866 (Swiss paleontologist) 1
Gaudry, Jean Albert, 1827-1908 (French palaeontologist) 1
Gerville, Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de, 1769-1853 (French antiquarian, historian, naturalist) 1
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728 -1774 ( Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet) 1
Grateloup, Jean-Pierre Silvestre de, 1782-1862 (French physician and naturalist) 1
Guiscardi, William (Guillaume), fl 1860 (Italian volcanologist) 1
Gutbier, Christian August von , 1 July 1798 - 9 May 1866 (German Colonel and Geologist) 1
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 1
Horace, 65 BC- 8 BC (Roman poet) 1
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 1
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 1
Juvenal, fl c 60-127 (Roman poet) 1
Keilhau, Baltazar Mathias, 1797-1858 (Norwegian geologist) 1
Khanykov, Nikolaĭ, 1819-1878 (Russian orientalist) 1
Koninck, Laurent Guillaume De, 1809-1887 (Belgian palaeontologist and professor of industrial chemistry, Liege) 1
Laplace, A.M., fl 1850 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Lartet, Edouard William, 1801-1871 (French geologist and paleontologist) 1
Lartet, Louis, 1840 – 1899 (French geologist and paleontologist) 1
Leckie, Gould Francis, c.1767-1850 (English writer - Sicily and Tuscany) 1
Lecoq, Henri, 1802-1871 (Botanist) 1
Lehon, Henri, 1809 – 1872 (Belgian painter, geologist and physicist) 1
Levaillant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 23 December 1793 – 23 December 1877 (French soldier and naturalist, son of François Levaillant) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
Malaise, Constantin Henri Gérard Louis, 7 November 1834 -1916 (Belgian naturalist) 1
Marcou, Jules, 1824 – 1898 (French-Swiss-American geologist) 1
McCulloch, J R (John Ramsay), 1789-1864 (political economist) 1
Mcculloch, John, 1773-1835 (geologist) 1
Meulien, Tullia, Madam, fl 1839 (French translator of Lyell's Principles) 1
Milton, John, 1608-1674 (English poet) 1
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist ) 1
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 1
Pagnerre, Louis Antoine, 1805-1854 (French politician and librarian) 1
Pedersen, Vargas, Count, fl 1835 (Danish geologist, correspondent to Charles Lyell, traveller to Canary Islands) 1
Penn, Granville , 1761-1844 1
Plieninger, Wilhelm Heinrich Theodor, 1795-1879 (German paleontologist and scientist) 1
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 1
Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796 – 1874 (Belgian Astronomer, Mathematician and Sociologist) 1
Raboteau, G.E, fl 1838 (French publisher) 1
Rive, Auguste Arthur de la, 9 October 1801 - 27 November 1873 (Swiss physicist) 1
Rivière, Émile-Valère de Précourt, 22 April 1835 - 25 January 1922 (French physician and specialist in prehistory) 1
Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric de, 1829 – 1905 (Swiss mineralogist and entomologist) 1
Schmerling, Philippe-Charles, 1791-1836 (Dutch prehistorian, geologist) 1
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 1
Sismonda, Angelo, 1807-1878 (Italian mineralogist and geologist) 1
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1
Spring, Dr, fl 1860 (Academic at Liege, correspondent with Charles Lyell) 1
Steenstrup, 1794-1865 (Danish zoologist and professor of chemistry and mineralogy, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)) 1
Studer, Bernhard, 1794-1887 (Swiss geologist) 1
Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, de, Comte, 1805-1859 (French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher and historian) 1
Vega-Grande, Vicomte De (De) 1
Verneuil, Edouard de, 1805-1873 (French geologist) 1
Verneuil, Édouard de, 1805-1873 (French palaeontologist) 1
Vibraye, Paul Hurault de, 8th Marquis de, 1809–1878 (French archaeologist) 1
Virgil, 70 B.C.-19 B.C. (Roman poet) 1
Winkler, Tiberius Cornelis, 1822-1897 (Dutch anatomist, zoologist and natural historian) 1
de Perthes, Jacques Boucher, 1788-1868 (French archaeologist and antiquary) 1
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