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Cross-sections of Madeiran geology, 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 28-32
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Illustrations by Hartung relating to a paper read by Sir Charles Lyell March 22 1854 to the Geology Society including a section of Cape Girain [sic Girão], Volcanic Cone, and the coast of Madeira, 1854.

Dates: 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index, June 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
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Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index. Topics covered include: Size and structure of Madeira, Scoriaeceous formations, Fossil remains of 3 periods which are to be found on Madeira, Lavas, Successive eruptions. June 1856. Folio 399-412 is a notebook of drawings by JB [Joanna Baillie] Horner.

Dates: June 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Illustrations of Manual Madeira & Canary Islands, 1850s

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 45-49
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Original packaging noted as 'Illustrations Manual Madeira & Canary Islands. Geological cross sections, possibly some by Hartung? 1850s.

Dates: 1850s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Index - Madeira, 5 November 1856 - 1857

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Identifier: Coll-203/A4/1
Scope and Contents No actual index. Appears to contain multiple indexes to: - Lyell's published works on Madeira and Canary Islands - the 2nd Edition from page 80, and to older or first editions from page 86. p. 1-54 Questions on other's papers on Madeira, how to publish the Canary Islands paper - perhaps part written in German with Hartung. Page by page review of Madeira text with Lyell's own observational drawings, then Memoranda to action for the paper. p. 55 - 70 Manual of Elementary...
Dates: 5 November 1856 - 1857
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Index to Madeira Manuscript, 23 April 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 240-300
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Draft of manuscript relating to Madeira in which Lyell uses the knowledge gained from his visit to Madeira to prove that the structure of Madeira is due to a series of recurring eruptions, includes diagrams. Topics covered include: the Size of Madeira, Whether there is submarine scoriae in the centre of the island, Limestone and Miocene beds of S. Vicente Basaltic Lavas, (23 April 1856).

Dates: 23 April 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Index to Notebooks on Geology of Madeira, 186 - 197, c. 1858

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Identifier: Coll-203/A5/16
Scope and Contents Beginning by noting page 74 in Scientific notebook 185, and the voyage to Madeira, the subsequent pages numbered 1- 89 are an index to Scientific notebooks 185 - 197 [see references Coll-203/A1/185 - 197]. From page 91, is an index to MS notes 'with Hartung, CLs', which indicate a link to manuscripts on Madeira, reference Coll-203/2. From page 102, is an index to 'Hartung's Notes Madeira' thereafter noted as 'Hartung's MS'. From page 115, there is a note 'Madeira Drawer',...
Dates: c. 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury, 11 November 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 33-35
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Summary is noted by Lyell as 'Barometrial measurement of Heights'. Letter to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker from Charles James Bunbury full of social chat, he mentions that "Mr Bunbury" [Henry Edward Bunbury, his father] gave a lecture to the Bury Atheneum on his recent trip to Madeira and Tenerife. He includes notes entitled " The Neutral Point of Sir C Lyell's Barometer", 11 November 1854.

Dates: 11 November 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Mr [Thomas Vernon] Wollaston from Sir Charles Lyell, February 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 208-210
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Letter to Mr Wollaston from Sir Charles Lyell concerning the deposits containing land shells on the island of Porto Santo and Madeira. He discusses the depth of the deposits and the number of species that are extant and extinct and are common to both islands, with envelope, February 1856. This letter was never sent.

Dates: February 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from Dr. William Baird, 20 June 1856

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 234-236
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from William Baird relating to Helix Tiarella which was published by Webb & Bartholet in 1833. He tells Lyell that no further mention was made of it in their synopsis except that it was obtained from a bag of Orchil. He advises Lyell that is would not be necessary to go to Madeira for a sample as it is readily available in the Canary Islands where it forms the major export and fetches twice as much as Madeira orchil on the London...
Dates: 20 June 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Madeira and Canaries Notebook, 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859

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Identifier: Coll-203/A4/2
Scope and Contents Notebook of discussions, reading, drawings and copy letters (in Mary's writing) made whilst with Hartung at Swingenberg, Germany. Appears to be working through a previous publication, making revisions or notes, especially on volcanoes, lava slopes, elevations and upheaval. Many pages written in pencil. Blank from page 89 onwards. This notebook has no index. p. 1 Begins at Swingenberg with Hartung. Discussion of Azores. p. 4 Scrope's Volcanoes p. 8 Erratics p. 11...
Dates: 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 8
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 3
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 2
Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 2
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 2
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Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer) 2
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 2
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, 1822-1878 (English entomologist and malacologist) 2
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Baird, William, 1803-1872 (Scottish physician and zoologist | University Alumnus | Asst. Zoological Dept, British Museum) 1
Beck, Heinrich Henrichsen (1799-1863) 1
Burnes, Alexander, 1805-1841 (Scottish explorer and diplomat) 1
Conybeare, William Daniel, 1787-1857 (English geologist, paleontologist, clergyman) 1
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 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
Eckersberg, Johan Fredrik, 1822 - 1870 (Norwegian painter) 1
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 1
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 1
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 1
Johnson, James Yate, 1820 - 1900 (English naturalist, based in Madeira) 1
Junghuhn, Frederich Franz William, 1809-1864 (German botanist) 1
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 1
Milne-Home, David, 1805-1890 (Scottish advocate, geologist, meteorologist) 1
Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 (American geologist) 1
Reiss, Wilhelm, 1838-1908 (German geologist and explorer) 1
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819-1900 (Italian-born British astronomer ) 1
Tennant, James, 1808-1881 (mineralogist) 1
Vidal, A. T. E (Alexander Thomas Emeric), 1792-1863 (Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy, surveyor) 1
Webb, Philip Barker, 1793-1854 (botanist) 1
Wigham, J.B. (1813-1851) 1
Wood, E.R, Colonel, fl 1861 (of Stouthall, Swansea, cave explorer and collector) 1
Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 1
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