Notebook No.73, 22 November 1838-13 March 1839
Scope and Contents
The red leather notebook includes Charles Lyell's geological observations, sketches, some essays with queries, and a list of species names of the Geological Society Museum collection. There are many references to Charles Darwin. The index is on p. 140, inside 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.
Nov[embe]r 1838 to March 1839
p. 1,6,9,16,18,22,24,26,28,36,39,51,66,71,97, Principles, 6th Ed[ition] mem[oranda] for
p. 10, Aristotle on Spontaneous generation
p. 12, Climate
p. 12, "Recent," term
p. 14, Deluges, traditions of
p. 20, Bristol Channel, great bank formed in,
p. 24,26,29,31,33,35,36,40,49,54,65,71,81,97,120, Darwin, mem[oranda] for
p. 25,71, [Darwin] replies to queries
p. 28, [Darwin] on Glen Roy
p. 96, [Darwin] on lavas of Galapagos
p. 24,25, Murchison, mem[orandum] for
p. 40, [Murchison] books lent to
p. 28, Parallel Roads
p. 28,29, Erratic blocks
p. 32,36,39,50,92, Mem[orand]a
p. 27,29,31, Bayfield, letter to
p. 36, Everests claculation on delta of Ganges
p. 41,45, Farnham sections
p. 42, [Farnham] swallow holes etc
p. 42, Sismonda, mem[orandum] for
p. 72, [Farnham] letter to
p. 42,97,108, Sowerby, mem[oranda] for
p. 92,94,106,114 to 116,118, [Sowerby] on Bayfield's shells
p. 100,104,113, [Sowerby] on identif[icatio]n of American + Europ[ea]n shells
p. 102, [Sowerby] on Beck's analogues
p. 106,130 to 139, [Sowerby] on Crag shells
p. 48, Southampton railway section on,
p. 49, Verstegan on form[atio]n of Straits of Dover
p. 53,54,58,59, Wood, mem[oranda] for
p. 54,55,58,59,73, Crag
p. 58,60 to 64,68,69,70,76,78,80, - fossils in Geol[ogical] Soc[iety]
p. 83,84,86,88,90,91,98,110,111,112,122,124,126,128, Wood, Mr on Norwich shells
p. 73,82, Books to read
p. 74, Postans, Lieut[enan]t procured survey of Ullah Bund
p. 81, Charlesworth on percentage test
p. 90, Smith's Newer Pliocent shells of Scotland
p. 74, Ullah Bund
Norwich Crag shells see "Crag"-"Sowerby + "Wood"
p. 49, Dover, Verstegan on for-mat[io]n of the straits of
Addresses
p. 39, Burkant
p. 35, Fahnberg, Baron
p. 104, Gould, D.A. [note this is Dr. Augustus Gould]
[p. 104], Flake, Dr
p. 89, Henslow
p. 72, Jobert, M
p. 65, Jeffrey, Lieut[enan]t
p. 51, Hamilton
p. 22, More J.C.
p. 39, Michell, Dr
p. 24, Michell Major
p. 52, Power, Mr
p. 39, Weaver
Dates
- Creation: 22 November 1838-13 March 1839
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This item is on loan to the Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh and thus unavailable for consultation in our reading room until further notice.
Extent
141 folios
70 Leaves
1 volume
Archivist's Note
Transcribed by Michael Lord, Volunteer, June 2021; Catalogued by Elise Ramsay, Project Archivist, June 2021
Creator
Subject
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) (Person)
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) (Person)
- Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, Captain, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor) (Person)
- Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist) (Person)
- Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) (Person)
- Charlesworth, Edward, 1813-1893 (English geologist and palaeontologist) (Person)
- Sismonda, Angelo, 1807-1878 (Italian mineralogist and geologist) (Person)
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