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Burton, Decimus, 14 May 1814

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Identifier: Coll-1989/9
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Decimus Burton to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 14 May 1814: "I have considered the subject put to me in your note. I take the superficies of London, Westminster[,] Southwark, Finsbury[,] Marylebone etc. to be 16 sq. miles. I suppose the cubical mass of stone, brick & paving stone over that area to be 74,000,000 cubic yards in the Houses, Churches, Public Buildings etc. Taking the number of Houses to be 250,000 – and this would give about 5 feet thickness or...
Dates: 14 May 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Byrne, Frances Charles Horner , 14 November 1867

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Identifier: Coll-203/B3/4
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Thanks for transferring The Edinburgh Review volumes, that appear to have been left to him by Aunt Nancy, and, for the 'french bonbons'. Talks of Rosamond and nephews dancing at Richmond, then comments on 'those articles of the Siecle' asking why 'a government which interferes so much with press and arrests so many on slight pretexts permits such bold expression of opinion'.

Dates: 14 November 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Calculations of Barometrical Observations in Palma, Canary Islands, 12 July 1854

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Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 36-38
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Calculations of Barometrical Observations in La Palma, Canary Islands giving heights in feet of various volcanic features including of the Central Ridge of the Caldera, 12 July 1854.

Dates: 12 July 1854
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charles Lyell, 1841-1947

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Identifier: Coll-1518/1
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Papers created by or relating to Sir Charles Lyell.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1841-1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charles Lyell's Notebook, 1825-1826

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Identifier: Coll-203/A2/4
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charlesworth, Edward, 15 February 1839

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Identifier: Coll-203/B3/5
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Note of reassurance in support of Charlesworth, possibly against Hawkins [letter marked 'Hawkins v Charlesworth], who also appears in Lyell's wider correspondence, but is as yet unidentified.

Dates: 15 February 1839
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Coloured section of Forfarshire, from N.N.S. From Glen Moy Through the Bakie Loch to Dundee, c1822-1824

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Identifier: Coll-203/3/3
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Complimentary copy of printed article by Goppert, Prof. Dr. Henricus Robertus, sent to Charles Lyell, 22 April 1837-1859

 File — Box Box 3.2: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/46
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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.

Dates: 22 April 1837-1859
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 181
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 41
Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) 18
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 16
Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 15
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Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 15
Blackadder, William, 1782-1860 (Surveyor, Architect from Glamis, Forfarshire) 13
Deshayes, Gerard Paul, 1795-1875 (French geologist and conchologist) 13
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 13
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 12
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 12
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 12
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 12
Conrad, T.A., 1803-1877 (American paleontologist and malacologist) 11
Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 11
Gemmellaro, Gaetano Giorgio, 1832-1904 (Italian geologist) 11
Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 10
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 10
Gemmellaro, Carlo, 1787-1866 (Italian geologist) 10
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 10
Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 (French mineralogist, geologist and naturalist) 9
Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 9
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 1797-1876 (geologist and political economist) 9
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 (American geologist and chemist | Professor of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy in Yale College) 9
Waltershausen, Wolfgang Sartorius Von (German geologist) 9
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 8
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 8
Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 (American geologist) 8
Polk, James Knox, 1795-1849 (11th President of the United States) 8
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 8
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 7
Fleming, John, 1785 - 1857 (Free Church of Scotland minister, naturalist, zoologist, geologist) 7
Hall, James (Sir James Hall of Dunglass), 1761-1832 (Scottish geologist and geophysicist | 4th Baronet) 7
Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 (American scientist, educator and minister) 7
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 7
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 7
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (Lawyer and Statesman) 7
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, 1821-1865 (English geologist and malacologist) 7
Beck, Heinrich Henrichsen (1799-1863) 6
Buckland, William, 1784-1856 (English theologian, geologist) 6
Dujardin, Felix, 1801-1860 (French biologist) 6
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 6
Orbigny, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d', 1802-1857 (French naturalist) 6
Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist) 5
Emmons, Ebenezer, 1799-1863 (American geologist and mountaineer) 5
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 5
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (7th President of the United States) 5
Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 5
Koch, Albert C., 1804 - 1867 (German/American naturalist, showman, and entrepreneur) 5
Lartet, Edouard William, 1801-1871 (French geologist and paleontologist) 5
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 1800-1882 (Anglican Cleric, Professor of Hebrew, Oxford) 5
Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873 (geologist and professor of geology, University of Cambridge) 5
Sismonda, Angelo, 1807-1878 (Italian mineralogist and geologist) 5
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894 (American lawyer and philanthropist) 5
Anthony, John Gould, 1804-1877 (American naturalist, mollusks) 4
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (English Philosopher | Attorney General | Lord Chancellor of England) 4
Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 4
Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 4
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 4
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 4
Cuvier, Georges, 1769- 1832 (French zoologist and statesman) 4
Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 (American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist) 4
Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867 (English chemist, botanist, and geologist) 4
De la Beche, Thomas, 1796-1855 (English geologist, palaeontologist) 4
Delesse, Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph, 3 February 1817 – 24 March 1881 (French geologist and mineralogist) 4
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 4
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator) 4
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 ( Genevan–American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist.) 4
Hall, James, 1811-1898 (American geologist and paleontologist) 4
Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 (American naturalist, zoologist) 4
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 4
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, 1769-1859 (German naturalist, geologist and explorer) 4
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 4
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (English biologist and anthropologist) 4
Jackson, Charles Thomas, 1805-1880 (American physician and scientist) 4
Keilhau, Baltazar Mathias, 1797-1858 (Norwegian geologist) 4
Lecoq, Henri, 1802-1871 (Botanist) 4
Maffiote Arocha, Pedro, 1816-1870 (Professor of the Nautical School of Tenerife | Spanish architect) 4
Morris, John, 1810-1886 (English geologist) 4
Murchison, Charlotte, 1788-1869 (nee Hougin, geologist, wife of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison) 4
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 (British Conservative statesman | Prime Minister 1834-35, 1841-46 | Home Secretary 1822-27, 1828-30) 4
Redfield, William Charles, 1789-1857 (American meteorologist) 4
Rogers, Henry Darwin, 1808-1866 (American geologist | Professor of Natural History and Geology, University of Glasgow) 4
Scotsman (1817-:) 4
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845 (Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) 4
Torell, Otto Martin, 1828 – 1900 (Swedish Naturalist and Geologist) 4
Vibraye, Paul Hurault de, 8th Marquis de, 1809–1878 (French archaeologist) 4
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 4
Waterhouse, George Robert, 1810-1888 (naturalist) 4
Wigham, J.B. (1813-1851) 4
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, 1822-1878 (English entomologist and malacologist) 4
Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 3
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 (American historian, statesman and Democratic politician) 3
Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 3
Bigelow, Jabob, 1787 - 1879 (American physician. botanist and botanical illustrator) 3
Bouillet, Jean-Baptiste, 1799-1878 (Geologist, banker, ethnographer, genealogist and curator) 3
British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 3
Bryce, James, 1806-1877 (Irish mathematician, naturalist and geologist) 3
Buch, Christian Leopold Von, 1774-1853 (German geologist, palaeontologist) 3
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