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Minute Book No 7, 07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Item — Volume MS 2918.1: Series Coll-43/1
Identifier: Coll-43/1/7
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing minutes of ordinary meetings with 432 numbered pages. Full details of the Society's business is recorded including: details of honorary, corresponding and normal membership and diplomas awarded, reports from Annual General Meetings including details of office-bearers and their election, financial details, details of the publications of Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, details of donations for the Society's museum and...
Dates:
07 November 1867 - 18 March 1879
Notebook No.2, 1825- 1826
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/2
Scope and Contents
This notebook is complete, written by Lyell in ink, and featuring diverse subjects like fine art, museums, education, reform, and notes on geological advancements from Europe. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions have been...
Dates:
1825- 1826
Notebook No.29, July 1829- July 1829
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 2: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/29
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains geological notes on Scottish and Yorkshire geology, Edinburgh and Forfarshire, Newcastle and York. The index is adhered to the back cover, the front cover reads 2.4. The two has been struck through. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus....
Dates:
July 1829- July 1829
Notebook No.30, August 1829- August 1829
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 2: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/30
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains diverse notes on British geology, and lists of queries for correspondents Blackadder, Humboldt, and Dr. Fleming. The front 3 pages are missing. Lyell's writing is a combination of steady, small copy hand, and hasty pencil observations. On p. 59, Lyell writes, "Hutton did not go as far as Moro". The list of questions on page 68 includes note 'Mrs. Murchison To ask Mary Anning for rate of waste at Lyme'. ...
Dates:
August 1829- August 1829
Notebook No.43, August 1831- August 1831
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 2: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/43
Scope and Contents
This brown leather notebook contains Lyell's notes from London and Edinburgh, with lists including "luggage per steamboat" and packings lists, a draft of opening of a second volume, and a sketch of Edinburgh Castle hill with diagram of geological layers. Notes are written in pencil and ink, with many revisions. The front cover reads "August 1831, London, Edin[burgh]." The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from...
Dates:
August 1831- August 1831
Printed Papers, c.1829-1864
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 1.23 (Formerly Gen 119): Series Coll-203/8 (Lyell 8); Series Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Identifier: Coll-203/9 (Lyell 9)
Scope and Contents
Printed Papers consists of:
address delivered by Sir Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London (1836)
Lithology of the Environs of Edinburgh by Dr Fleming (1856-1857)
Biographical notice of Sir Charles Lyell as President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1864)
press cutting of letter from Sir...
Dates:
c.1829-1864