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Complimentary copy of printed article by Goppert, Prof. Dr. Henricus Robertus, sent to Charles Lyell, 22 April 1837-1859
Three off prints from journal titled: de Floribus in Statu Fossill, Commentatio Botanica quam ex autoritate Gratiosi Medicorum Ordinis in Universitate Literaria Vratislaviensi; Ueber die versteinten Walder im nordlichen Bohmen und in Schlesien; Ueber die gegenwartigen Verhaltnisse der Palantologie in Schlesien so wie uber fossile Cycadeen.
Letter from Heer, Oswald, to Charles Lyell, 8 August 1857 - 8 February 1877
Notes and envelope with samples of leaves
Letter from Von Strombeck, to Charles Lyell, 17 April 1836
Letter from Von Strombeck to Lyell regarding a translation of Lyell's publication.
Letters from Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst to Charles Lyell, May 1857- 1859
Original letter in German with English translation. Original summary is "Beyrich May 1857 criticisms on supplement Barrande's Colonies".
Letters from Binkhorst J.T. to Charles Lyell, 23 July 1860 - 1861
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Loess Fossil Man Caves of Meuse [Belgium]. Folio 286 is a map of the site
2) Leyden Coberg Human jaw Crahayes [sic] report
3) Maestricht human skulls
4) On cave-bones etc. 1860-1.
Letters from Duncker & Humblot to Charles Lyell, 5 March 1867 - 5 March 1867
Letters relate to Lyell's works published in Germany:
1) Duncker announcing safe arrival of corrigenda and M.S at Cotta’s
2) Sum paid to Vieweg for translation
Carl von Cotta defended the concept of evolution and was a supporter of Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism however questioned Lyell's claim that earth was a fluctuation of eternally equal forces, noting the earth's historical development. Vieweg was a specialist German publisher.
Letters from Dunker, Dr. Wilhelm and Elise, to Charles Lyell, 17 May 1851 - 26 November 1852
Summarised by Lyell as:
1) Dunker presents Palaeontographica
2)[? Phillippa] going to Chili, Dunker sent 2 Journals - Bound of Palaeontogr. on Brown Coal
Wilhelm Dunker founded the journal Palaeontographica in 1846. Letter is written from Elise, Dunker's cousin and wife, in German, to Lyell.
Letters from Gümbel, Carl Wilhelm von to Charles Lyell, 6 November 1866 - 8 August 1868
Letters from Haeckel, Ernest to Charles Lyell, 27 November 1868
Letters from Hartmann, Carl Freidrich Alexander to Charles Lyell, 10 August 1832 - 10 August 1858
German translator of Principles of Geology. Correspondence includes sketches and drawings.