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Index Book, No. 9, August 1868
This series of Index notebooks appears as one single set, however, there are different series within, some groups and individual specific indexes. They appear to have been created from 1855 and are an attempt by Lyell and his team (featuring several different sets of handwriting, especially the General Indexes) to facilitate access to information gathered and held in other series, including the Offprints, and the Scientific notebooks.
Index Book, No. 10, January 1869
This series of Index notebooks appears as one single set, however, there are different series within, some groups and individual specific indexes. They appear to have been created from 1855 and are an attempt by Lyell and his team (featuring several different sets of handwriting, especially the General Indexes) to facilitate access to information gathered and held in other series, including the Offprints, and the Scientific notebooks.
Index Book, No. 11, 1871
This series of Index notebooks appears as one single set, however, there are different series within, some groups and individual specific indexes. They appear to have been created from 1855 and are an attempt by Lyell and his team (featuring several different sets of handwriting, especially the General Indexes) to facilitate access to information gathered and held in other series, including the Offprints, and the Scientific notebooks.
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.
Index Book, Shells, c. 1860
Notebook is identified on the inside first page as 'Alphabetical list of recent and tertiary fossil shells compared for identification'. This is followed by the note on the 'abbreviations of Localities'. Finally, there is the guidance ‘the figures in red ink shew the number of the Note Book, those in black ink the pages’. From page 29, the list is headed 'Mr Darwin's Shells'.
Index - Madeira, 5 November 1856 - 1857
Index Notebooks, 1855 - 1871
This series of Index notebooks appears as one single set, however, there are different series within, some groups and individual specific indexes. They appear to have been created from 1855 and are an attempt by Lyell and his team (featuring several different sets of handwriting, especially the General Indexes) to facilitate access to information gathered and held in other series, including the Offprints, and the Scientific notebooks.
Index to Madeira Manuscript, 23 April 1856
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).
Index to Notebooks on Geology of Madeira, 186 - 197, c. 1858
Journal article authored by Geikie, Prof. Archibald, on 'Metamorphic and Volcanic Actions', 18 December 1873
Complimentary copy of journal article read by Geikie on metamorphic and volcanic actions, to the Edinburgh Geological Society, inscribed 'Sir Charles Lyell Bart with A Geikie's Compliments'.