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Letter from Wood, S.V. And Harmer, F.W., to Charles Lyell, February 1872

 File — Box Box 3.4: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/104
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Original journal article 'An Outline of the Geology of the Upper Tertiaries of East Anglia'. Detailed fold out map showing ‘A map of the Crag district, showing all the UPPER TERTIARY formations’.

Dates: February 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Woodward, S.P., to Charles Lyell, 8 July 1856

 File — Box Box 3.4: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/103
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Letter containing extract from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - 'On the Land and Freshwater Shells of Kashmir and Tibet, collected by Dr. T. Thomson'.

Dates: 8 July 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Ziegler, J. M., to Charles Lyell, 6 February 1856

 File — Box Box 3.4: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/105
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: 6 February 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Abbot, Henry to Charles Lyell, 10 January 1866 - 8 May 1866

 File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/1
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Letters from Abbot responding to enquiries from Lyell on the Mississippi Delta. Includes a letter from Humphreys to Abbot.

Dates: 10 January 1866 - 8 May 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Abich, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von to Charles Lyell, 28 November 1866

 File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/2
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Abich on American Hatchet. The following lines crossed out as deleted on the original envelope: 'to be acknowledged, referred to John Evans after the specimen reaches me' dated 19th Jan 1866.

Dates: 28 November 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Adams, Andrew Leith, to Charles Lyell, 5 June 1874 - 15 June 1874

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/1
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Looking for support from Lyell in the author's bid for the Toronto Natural History Chair, and then thanking him for testimonial

Dates: 5 June 1874 - 15 June 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Adams, Charles Baker to Charles Lyell, 5 December 1845

 File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/3
Scope and Contents Summarised as 'Shells of of the Gulf of Champlain - Pleistocene'. Adams writes of his geological report on shells of the Gulf of Champlain, which Adams wishes to appeal not to a geologist, but to a community who do not know there is a structure to the Earth - "intending to form an opinion, constrained by the facts observed". Lists fossils which he has to hand from these deposits. Letter is headed with an illustration of Middlebury College, alongside is a note in pencil that the scene and...
Dates: 5 December 1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Agassiz, Alexander to Charles Lyell, 1 December 1869 - 17 April 1874

 File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/4
Scope and Contents Letters from Agassiz on Temnechinus [Sea Urchin] of Crag, dredged off of Florida, and Salensia of Chalk. Makes reference to D'Archiac's research on Nummulites of India and similarities with Florida. Dredge depths given. Letters also on Glacial of America. On the death of his father, he writes to ask Lyell for any correspondence between him and his father, or reviews or publications, as he and his mother are compiling his father's biography. Final letter thanks Lyell for his contribution...
Dates: 1 December 1869 - 17 April 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Agassiz, Louis, to Charles Lyell, 9 March 1855

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/2
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1) On Prof. Agassiz filling the Natural History Chair at the University of Edinburgh; 2) Synopsis of various lectures given by the author

Dates: 9 March 1855
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters from Ainger, Alfred, to Charles Lyell, 5 May 1882 - 1 December 1884

 File — Box Box 3.1: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/3
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Declining dinner engagement; Arranging to give Lyell a copy of 'Blake's Life' as promised; Setting the date for a play production - play still to be decided upon; On possible visit

Dates: 5 May 1882 - 1 December 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 430
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 10
Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 5
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 5
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 4
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Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 3
Falconer, Hugh, 1808-1865 (palaeontologist and botanist) 3
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 3
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 (naturalist) 3
Agassiz, Jean Louis, 1807-1873 (Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural history) 2
Archiac, Adolphe d', 1802-1868 (Vicomte d'Archiac | French geologist and palaeontologist) 2
Aymard, Auguste, 1808-1889 (Prehistorian and Paleontologist) 2
Beck, Henrik Henriksen, 1799–1863 (Danish naturalist) 2
Binney, Edward William, 1812­-1881 (geologist and founder Manchester Geological Society) 2
Campbell, George John Douglas, 1823-1900 (8th and 1st Duke of Argyll, British polymath and Liberal statesman) 2
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 2
Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt, 1781-1841 (Knight | English sculptor) 2
Clark, Joseph, 1834-1926 (English painter) 2
Croll, James, 1821-1890 (physical geologist and Keeper of Maps and Correspondence, Geological Survey of Scotland) 2
Davis, Henry Samuel, Major, fl January 1846 (British army officer and artist ) 2
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 2
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 2
Guiscardi, William (Guillaume), fl 1860 (Italian volcanologist) 2
Haidinger, Wilhelm, 1795-1871 (Austrian mineralogist) 2
Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 2
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 2
Howard, William George, 1808-1889 (8th Earl of Carlisle | English clergyman and peer) 2
James, Sir Henry, 1803-1877 (British Army Officer | Director-General of the Ordnance Survey) 2
Jeffreys, John Gwyn, 1809-1885 (British conchologist and malacologist) 2
Judd, John Wesley, 1840-1916 (British geologist) 2
Kean, Charles, 1811-1868 (British actor) 2
Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 2
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 2
Peach, Charles William, 30 September 1800 – 28 February 1886 (British naturalist and geologist) 2
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 2
Quekett, John Thomas , 11 August 1815 – 20 August 1861 (English microscopist and histologist) 2
Reid, William , Sir, 1791 – 1858 (Scottish military engineer, administrator and meteorologist) 2
Rogers, Henry Darwin, 1808-1866 (American geologist) 2
Somerville, Mary, 1780-1872 (scientific writer) 2
Sopwith, Thomas, 3 January 1803 – 16 January 1879 (English mining engineer, teacher of geology and local historian) 2
Spedding, Thomas Story, fl 1847-1865 (English J.P and writer) 2
Torell, Otto Martin, 1828 – 1900 (Swedish Naturalist and Geologist) 2
Williamson, William Crawford, 1816-1895 (professor of natural history and botany, Owens College, Manchester) 2
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894 (American lawyer and philanthropist) 2
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth, 1821-1865 (English geologist and malacologist) 2
Abich, Herman, 1806 - 1886 (German mineralogist and geologist) 1
Adams, Andrew Leith, 1827-1882 (Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist) 1
Adler, Johan Gunder, 1784-1852 (Danish civil servant and a co-author of the Constitution of Norway) 1
Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910 (American naturalist and industrialist) 1
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (English biographer and critic) 1
Airlie, David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, Lord, 4 May 1826 – 25 September 1881 (Scottish peer and soldier.) 1
Airy, Sir George Biddell, 1801-1892 (Astronomer Royal, 1835-1881) 1
Archibald, Charles Dickson, 1802 - 1868 (Nova Scotia Lawyer, businessman and political figure) 1
Armstrong, William, 1810-1900 (1st Baron Armstrong | English industrialist) 1
Baines, Thomas , 27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875 (English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia.) 1
Barrande, Joachim, 1799-1883 (Geologist and Paleontologist) 1
Barrett, Lucas, 1837-1862 (geologist and naturalist, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Bates, Henry Walter, 8 February 1825- 16 February 1892 (English naturalist and explorer) 1
Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) 1
Beattie, William, 1793 – 1875 (Scottish physician and poet) 1
Beaumont, Gustave de, 1802-1866 (French magistrate, prison reformer, and traveller ) 1
Beckles, Samuel Husbands, 12 April 1814 - 4 September 1890 (Bajan/English lawyer and dinosaur hunter, Sussex and the Isle of Wight) 1
Bell, Marian, Lady, 1787 – 1876 (Amanuenis and biographer of husband Charles Bell) 1
Bent, George, fl 1849 (New Brunswick based, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Berthelot, Sabin, 4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880 (French naturalist and ethnologist.) 1
Bertrand de Doue, Jacques-Mathieu, 1776 - 1862 (Geologist and first French member of the Geological Society of London, Vice-President of the Meteorological Society of France, Knight of the Legion of Honour) 1
Beyrich, Heinrich Ernst, 1815-1896 (German palaeontologist) 1
Binkhorst, J T, 1810-1876 (Geologist and Palaeontologist) 1
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 (British Egyptologist and antiquarian) 1
Bischof, Karl Gustav, 1792 – 1870 (German chemist) 1
Blackadder, William, 1782-1860 (Surveyor, Architect from Glamis, Forfarshire) 1
Blackmore, H.P., fl 1863 - 1867 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923 (clergyman, mountaineer and geologist) 1
Borth, James, fl 1873 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de, 1814 -1880 (Belgian paleontologist) 1
Boult, F., fl 1863 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Bowerbank, James Scott, 1797-1877 (geologist and distiller) 1
Boxall, William, 1800-1879 (English painter and director of the National Gallery) 1
Brace, Charles Loring, 19 June 1826 - 11 August 1890 (American philanthropist) 1
Bravard, Auguste, 1803 - 1861 (Engineer and Palaeontologist) 1
Breda, Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van, 24 October 1788 - 2 September 1867 (Dutch biologist and geologist) 1
Brickenden, Lambert, Captain, fl 1851-1853 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Brodie, W.R., fl 1865-1868 (English fossil hunter, correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 (French mineralogist, geologist and naturalist) 1
Brown , Henry Handley, Reverend, 1813 - 1893 (English churchman, appointed to the Omata District, New Zealand. Father of Henry Brown, politician) 1
Brown, James, fl 1864 - 1868 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Brown, John, fl 1840 (English archaeologist) 1
Brown, Richard, fl 1844-1855 (Geologist based at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia) 1
Brown, Thomas, Reverend, 1811–1893 (Minister in the Free Church of Scotland, geologist and botanist) 1
Bryce, James, 1806-1877 (Irish mathematician, naturalist and geologist) 1
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 1
Buddle, John, 15 September 1773 – 10 October 1843 (English mining engineer and entrepreneur ) 1
Buist, George , 1805–1860 (Scottish journalist and scientist) 1
Bunbury, Edward Herbert, 1811 - 1895 ( English Barrister and a British Liberal Party politician ) 1
Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias von, 1791-1860 (German diplomat and scholar) 1
Bunsen, Robert, 30 March 1811 - 16 August 1899 (German chemist) 1
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906 (British philanthropist) 1
Burton, Decimus, 1800-1881 (English architect and urban designer) 1
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (historian, essayist and philosopher) 1
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 (naturalist) 1
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