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Notebook No.45, June 1832- July 1832

 Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 2
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/45

Scope and Contents

This brown leather notebook contains many lists, including packing lists, lists of books, ideas, and queries relating to Lyell's trip up the Rhine. The cover reads "June 1832", and the index is a page pasted to the back cover.

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. 1-9, Route from Bonn
p. 10, Friesdorf section
p. 11, Valley of Sieg
p. 12, Siegburg
p. 14, Wolsberg, arragonite veins
p. 18, Brown coal pits at Pfannenschoppen
p. 26, Stenzel Berg trachyte
p. 33, Alsenz to Forbach section
p. 35, Donnon to Feldberg [section]
p. 37, Welledingen [section]
p. 39, Loess of the Rhine
p. 39, Ehrenbreitstein, shells in greywacke
p. 39, Lectures, notes for,
p. 42, Wisbaden hot spring
p. 45, Rhine alluvium
p. 45, Oberath quarry
p. 48, Faunus, section
p. 48, Map of beckers
p. 50, Epelshein
p. 50, Darmstadt
p. 52, Odenwalkd, great plain of Rhine
p. 54,62, Loess, Heidelberg,
p. 57, Valley of Neckar
p. 59, Leonhard's 4 granites at Heidelberg
p. 70, Loess, near Wiesloch
p. 76, route, ntoes
p. 79, Loess of Alsace
p. 82, [Loess] Mamoth found in
p. 82, Soultz les bains
p. 84, [Soultz] quarries at
p. 85, Muschelkalk
p. 86, Vosges
p. 86, Loess at Inchenheim
p. 88, Lake, quarries
p. 88, Keutzinger
p. 89, Loess n[ea]r Zontzinger
p. 44,86, Addresses of Foreigners

Dates

  • Creation: June 1832- July 1832

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Extent

90 folios

45 Leaves

1 volume

Archivist's Note

Created by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, April 2021

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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