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Copy of a printed letter from Florence Nightingale detailing her life., 13 September 1866

 File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/76
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter that appeared in the Evangelical Christendom magazine from Florence Nightingale detailing her life.

Dates: 13 September 1866

Correspondence and Papers concerning Sea Serpents, 1820-1848

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.22 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5); Series Coll-203/6 (Lyell 6); Series Coll-203/7 (lyell 7); Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8)
Identifier: Coll-203/5 (Lyell 5)
Scope and Contents

Letters and Papers Concerning Sea Serpents consists of:


  1. notes and clippings regarding sightings of sea serpents (1820-1848)
  2. letters from Sir John William Dawson, John Fleming, William McGillivray, Alexander Gordon Melville, Patrick Neill, Colonel Parkins and George Robert Waterhouse regarding sea serpents (1845-1848)
Dates: 1820-1848

Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée, 1874-1896

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/15
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Gabriell Auguste Daubrée sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, chronologically arranged (1874-1896)
Dates: 1874-1896

Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill, 1839-1909

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/14
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence: Joseph Wilson Lowry to HR Mill sub-series consists of:


  1. 35 letters, alphabetically arranged (1839-1909)
Dates: 1839-1909

Correspondence - Letters between Sir Charles Lyell and Mary E. Lyell (neé Horner), 4 August 1831 - 13 July 1863

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.7: Series Coll-203/B7; Series Coll-203/B6; Series Coll-203/B8; Series Coll-203/B5
Identifier: Coll-203/B7
Scope and Contents A series of letters by Charles Lyell to Miss Mary Horner, his fiancee, later his wife - and also some from Mary to Charles - both before and after their marriage. After originally being married in Bonn, Germany, Charles and Mary were married again at Kirriemuir on the 28th September 1832. The earlier dated letters are voluminous and detailed. Their number lessens over time, due to the Lyell's being together always: 1) 4th August 1831 - 25th October 1831 2) 1st November 1831 -...
Dates: 4 August 1831 - 13 July 1863

Correspondence - Letters from Sir Charles Lyell , 1829-1874

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B3
Scope and Contents A series of letters sent by Charles Lyell, to others. Some of these correspondents also appear in the two A-Z series. It is not clear why these letters have been separated from earlier series of records, however they may have been gathered together by Katharine Lyell in her editorial of 'Life, Letters and Journals', with some marked 'not copied', published or unpublished. Agassiz Memorial Fund ...
Dates: 1829-1874

Correspondence - Letters from Sir Charles Lyell to his Family, 1806-1874

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B4

Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie A-M, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/15
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie A-M series consists of:


  1. letters alphabetically arranged by sender, including those from Charles Robert Darwin, the Geological Society, Joseph Lister, Sir Charles Lyell and Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
  2. postcards
  3. obituaries
Dates: late 19th century

Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 1927 tranche , 1831-1873

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Scope and Contents This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z, including one ‘Miscellaneous’ section within the 'M' series. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent - for example his brother in law Charles Bunbury.Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the...
Dates: 1831-1873

Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 'Acceptance in Lieu' tranche, 1826-c. 1884

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 1826-c. 1884

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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence to 430
Shells 28
Etna, Mount (Italy) 27
Geology 27
Fossils 23
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Canary Islands 22
Correspondence 20
Madeira Islands 20
Volcanoes 19
Angus (Scotland) 15
Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) -- correspondence from 14
Chalk 13
Formations (Geology) 13
Limestone 13
Portraits 13
Fossil shells 12
Geological Cross Sections 11
Earthquakes 10
Elephant bones 10
Climate 9
Coal 9
Lava Flows 9
Sketches, Geological 9
Auvergne (France) 8
Falun (Sweden) 8
Photographs 8
Eruptions 7
Loire River Valley (France) 7
Mastodon 7
Alabama (United States) 6
Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) 6
Geological Mapping 6
Georgia (United States) 6
Mississippi River (United States) 6
Mollusks 6
Nova Scotia (Canada) 6
Professional Interaction 6
Puy-de-Dôme (France : Department) 6
Sandstone 6
Sicily (Italy) 6
Slavery--United States 6
Bones 5
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 5
Canada -- Nova Scotia 5
Clay 5
Craters, Volcanic 5
Diluvium 5
Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland 5
Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene 5
Glaciers 5
Granite 5
Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 5
Miocene Epoch 5
New York City (New York, United States) 5
Paris (France) 5
Paris, France 5
Sea Monsters 5
Anthracite coal 4
Bordeaux, France 4
Caves 4
Falkland Islands 4
Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 4
Gneiss 4
Huron, Lake (Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada) 4
Iceland 4
Lectures and Lecturing 4
Loess 4
Maastricht, Netherlands 4
Marl 4
New Hampshire (United States) 4
Norwich (England) 4
Nummulites 4
Paris basin (France) 4
Peat 4
Sweden 4
United States 4
United States -- Ohio 4
Volcanological Research 4
Academic Writing 3
Amiens (France) 3
Atmospheric Pressure, Measurement 3
Basalt 3
Biography 3
Bristol (England) 3
Canada -- Ontario -- Niagara 3
Coastal Landforms 3
Deltas 3
Denmark 3
Echinus -- Sea Urchin 3
Eifel (Germany) 3
England -- Cornwall 3
Foraminifera 3
Geological Maps 3
Geological Surveys 3
Geology Museums 3
Geology, Stratigraphic Miocene 3
Hippopotamus (Genus), Fossil 3
Ichthyosaurus 3
Italy 3
Lake District (England) 3
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Language
English 870
English 67
French 66
German 19
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Names
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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