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Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A2/4
Scope and Contents
From one side, geological notes, open from the opposite side up-side down, tables and charts showing barometrical heights and observations for Forfarshire. Lyell uses data gathered from barometers located in different places - for example [Kinnordy] 'House' Barometer, and [Blair] 'Mountain' Barometer for comparison.
Dates:
1825-1826
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/3
Scope and Contents
Geological cross-section in watercolour and ink showing section from the sea at Dundee, over the Sidlaw Hills, Strathmore and the Grampians in Forfarshire. Scale: half an inch to a mile. c1822-1824
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Dates:
c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A2/3
Scope and Contents
Contains mostly extracts from select Geological Works, and some illustrations. Geological Works referred to include H[ar]burton on some beds of Shell Marle in Scotland; various authors on Bakie including Blackadder, Ogilvie; Humboldt's Personal Narrative. A number of pages blank, paginated.
Dates:
1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/2
Scope and Contents
One Notebook with smaller notebook glued inside. Geological notes, pencil and ink sketches and cross sections, relating to work on Forfarshire c1822-1824.
Dates:
c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/1
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing landscape sketches and annotated cross-sections of the coast of Forfarshire in pencil and watercolour, c1822-1824.
Dates:
c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/25
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Blackadder discussing various geological matters including the heights of diluvium in the Forfarshire area, the lochs in the Forfarshire area and his suspicions that land near Cortachie had once been a lake, marl deposition in the Forfarshire and Borders areas of Scotland and flints found in Aberdeenshire, 16 March 1825.
Dates:
16 March 1825
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/22
Scope and Contents
Letter with envelope to Sir Charles Lyell from W. L. Carnegie asking for information and advice on geological matters. He requests that Lyell might tell him where to find publications of Lyell's work and which publication about Trap he should buy. He discusses his work at quarries near Newcastle and relates a story (with diagram) about contractors there. He also mentions that he has discovered a quarry with superior material and expects to be able to supply Arbroath with cheap, high quality...
Dates:
1841
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/83
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains notes on France, London, and Kinnordy, predominantly pencil in first part, containing field notes and multiple sketches of geological formations. Notes include significant list of Norwich Crag fossils sent to Dr Fleming, some drawings with use of colour evident; notes on glacial moraines observed in Angus with Dr. Buckland. Index on p. 113-116, both covers are blank. The following table of contents is...
Dates:
30 July 1840-12 October 1840
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/84
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains Lyell's notes on Scottish geology, primarily near Kinnordy. Notes discuss geological formation of the Strath at Kinnordy, moraines that descend from the Grampians, and evidence of glacier activity. Notes are mostly pencil field notes and some sketches, occasional ink. The covers are blank and the index is on pp. 113-117. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own...
Dates:
13 October 1840-19 October 1840
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/85
Scope and Contents
This marbled paper and red leather notebook includes Charles Lyell's geological notes on Kinnordy and surrounding area, as well as other areas of Scotland, illustrated with a watercolor cross section on page 61. There are also 'to do' lists, notes on correspondence sent, meeting agendas and lists of persons to whom papers were sent, and notes on conversations with Agassiz. He makes more observations on glacial moraines, and lists of Faluns fossils. Notes are in pencil and ink and complete...
Dates:
21 October 1840-8 December 1840
