Notebook No.43, August 1831- August 1831
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 2
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 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 expanded using brackets []. When writing is unclear, and transcription is not possible, this is denoted using [...]. Quotation marks are Lyell's own notation for ditto, as is the abbreviation "d'o". The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook.
Lyell's Own Index
p. 3, Mirebel, M., on plants which follow man, on walls [et cetera]
p. 3, D'Urville on bot[any] of Isle of ascension
p. 5, Bagshot sand, escarpm[ent]
p. 8, Ganges, an epitome of the globe
p. 14,15, Skeletons in Peat, refer[ences] to works on
p. 22, Milton, extracts from,
p. 24, Bacon, d[itt]o
p. 26, Mammoth tusk found at Kilmarnock
p. 32, Edin[burgh] Castle, section on the south side of hill
p. 38, Revolutions, origin of the doctrines respecting
p. 42,44,46 E. de Beaumont's theory
p. 72, Webster + Sowerby's bills am[ount] of
p. 75, Lectures, Mem[oranda] for
p. 76, Fahr into cent. how to convert
p. 58, Lectures, persons to whom tickets to be given
p. 61,83-87, Deshayes's tables correct[ion]s of [et cetera
p. 65, Otaheite, Mr Bennetts account of the [...] of
p. 73, Orinoco, distance of the great mouth of the, from St. Vincents
p. 73, Account of money p[ai]d to Deshayes
p. 3, D'Urville on bot[any] of Isle of ascension
p. 5, Bagshot sand, escarpm[ent]
p. 8, Ganges, an epitome of the globe
p. 14,15, Skeletons in Peat, refer[ences] to works on
p. 22, Milton, extracts from,
p. 24, Bacon, d[itt]o
p. 26, Mammoth tusk found at Kilmarnock
p. 32, Edin[burgh] Castle, section on the south side of hill
p. 38, Revolutions, origin of the doctrines respecting
p. 42,44,46 E. de Beaumont's theory
p. 72, Webster + Sowerby's bills am[ount] of
p. 75, Lectures, Mem[oranda] for
p. 76, Fahr into cent. how to convert
p. 58, Lectures, persons to whom tickets to be given
p. 61,83-87, Deshayes's tables correct[ion]s of [et cetera
p. 65, Otaheite, Mr Bennetts account of the [...] of
p. 73, Orinoco, distance of the great mouth of the, from St. Vincents
p. 73, Account of money p[ai]d to Deshayes
Dates
- August 1831- August 1831
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
88 folios
44 Leaves
1 volume
Archivist's Note
Created by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, April 2021
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 (English Philosopher | Attorney General | Lord Chancellor of England)
- Brisseau-Mirbel, Charles-François, 1790-1842 (French botanist and politican)
- Castlehill (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Deshayes, Gerard Paul, 1795-1875 (French geologist and conchologist)
- Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Elie de Beaumont, Leonce, 1798-1874 (French geologist)
- Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist)
- Milton, John, 1608-1674 (English poet)
- d'Urville, Jules Dumont, 1790-1842 (French explorer and naval officer)
Repository Details
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk