This brown leather notebook contains sketches, descriptions, identifications, aide de memoires in pencil and ink. The front cover reads July 1832, and the index is glued 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.

p. 1, Freyberg to Schaffhausen
p. 4, Falls of Schaffhausen
p. 8, Aningen quarries
p. 10, Luaffen
p. 12, Eglisan, sections
p. 14, Albis conglomerate
p. 14, Lug[...] [conglomerate]
p. 16, lucerne, section
p. 16, Lell
p. 18, [Lell] to Summidwald
p. 22, Berne, section
p. 26, Studer, his andiners
p. 28, Berne to Gurnigel, sect[ion]
p. 32, Nagelflue - Studer -
p. 32, Freyberg, molasse
p. 34, Bulle, section
p. 38, Nagelflue, Chalte St. Desus.
p. 40, Chatel St. Denis, section
p. 42, Lake of Geneva, Vevay.
p. 44, Montreux
p. 44, Chillon, depth of lake
p. 44, Perforations - -
p. 44, Delta of Rhone
p. 46, Bex St. Maurice
p. 46, Martigny
p. 48, Sion, alluvium
p. 50, Brigg, section
p. 52, Le Vallais
p. 52, Primary rocks
p. 52, Simplon
p. 54, Simplon veins of quartz traversing mica slate
p. 56, Laga Maggiore
p. 62, Geneva Mem[oranda]
p. 64, Valle de Suza
p. 66,70,72, Mont Cenis
p. 66, Argue river, section
p. 68, Gypsum bet[ween] Ternignon + Veeney
p. 68, Taise and space
p. 72, Chamberrey to Annency
p. 74, Valorsine, gran[ite] veins
p. 80, Col de Salenta, conglom[erate]
p. 80, Rocks bet[ween] Argenture and Valorsine like clova [et cetera] Forfarsh[ire]
p. 80, Porphyry, why no recent granites - -
p. 82, M[ont] Blanc, mer de glace,
p. 84, Necker on Vallais
p. 92, Projected Tours