Showing Records: 1 - 10 of 44
Etna. Discourse on the eruption of 1755, 1850s
Chronology of the eruption of Etna in the spring and summer of 1755 with an eye witness account, 1850s.
Geological Miscellany, 1857
Printed extract from Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen's Atlas of Etna, note regarding Junghahn's treatment of the double cones of Java and geological sketch of Colanna [presumably Etna], 1857.
Geology of Vesuvius and Etna extracted from the letters of Charles Lyell, September and October 1858
Il Balzo Di Aci, 28 September 1858
Drawing entitled 'Il Balzo Di Aci' of a town with hills in the background and a river or lake in the foreground. Inscription in Italian reads "Veluto dallo scalo di Signora Maria della Scala a 7 Aprile 1858. Carlo Gemmellaro quest' Atimo suo [ ]sequi, all'eta di anni 71. A Sir Charles Lyell in Catania", (28 Settembre 1858).
Index Book, Notes for paper on modern lavas of Vesuvius & Etna, January 1858
Introduced on page 1 as 'Note Book for paper on Etna & Vesuvius & structure of modern lavas. Refers to Scientific Notebooks 226-229, and then 230-231, with notes with page reference on the contents of these notebooks as well as to Lyell's reading on the subject amd drawings.
Lava flow at Messina, Sicily, 9 November 1857
Document written by Sir Charles Lyell at Messina on the Island of Sicily describing his visit there in the autumn of 1857. The bulk of the document is spent describing the way lava flows down both steep and gentle slopes and specifically discusses the lava flow resulting from the 9 month long eruption of 1852/3. In addition he discusses the formation of the Val del Bove, 9 November 1857.
Letter to Leonard Horner from Sir Charles Lyell, 10 December 1857
Letter to Leonard Horner from Sir Charles Lyell discusing the internal structure of lava flows. Lyell also remarks on the probable nature of the additions to the core of Mount Vesuvius that had occurred that year, with illustrations, 10 December 1857.
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro, 21 May 1858
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Carlo Gemmellaro replying to earlier letters from Lyell to the Gemmellaro family containing questions relating to the geology of Mount Etna. Gemmellaro diagrees with Lyell that the pressure of subsequent layers of lava depress those beneath, with sketch, and mentions the geographical locations of certain features with respect to the map of Wolfgang Sartorius Von Waltershausen which Gemmellaro feels to be accurate, 21 May 1858.