Notebook No.75, 3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 3
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/75
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes and contain specimen lists, queries for colleagues, and notes on publication of new editions of Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology. Subjects are chiefly notes on fossil shells of Crag. The index is on p. 138-139.
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
Index, p. 138
Addresses
p. 103, Dinkel
p. 18, De Candolle
p. 58, Featherstonhaugh
p. 40, Flooker
p. 101, Loven
Index
p. 1,5-11,26,36,40-44,48-56,60-69,72-88, Sowerby, G.B. examin[atio]n of Touraine fossil shells
p. 13,30,106, -[Sowerby, G.B.] mem[oranda] for
p. 18, -[Sowerby, G.B.] price of Min. Con.
p. 20, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Cyrenas
p. 20, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Mrs Powers collection
p. 3,22,24,102-105, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Superga fossils
p. 22,26, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Cropthorn fossils
p. 109,121, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Oliva of Worcestershire
p. 121, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on number of British shells
p. 124, -[Sowerby, G.B.] Mayence fossils purchased by
p. 13, Wood, S. Touraine fossils identified with Crag, by,
p. 28, -[Wood] on Cropthorn fossils
p. 32,34,88, -[Wood] on Crag fossils
p. 89, -[Wood] analysis of his Coral Crag fossils
p. 130, -[Wood] on London Clay fossils Touraine fossils, examin[atio]n of - see "Sowerby"
p. 22,26, Cropthorne fossils
p. 90 to 100, Touraine fossils, list of 236 species
p. 27,29,46,57,122,124, Memoranda
p. 26, Sicily Superga relations of
p. 32, Alexander, Capt[ain] on names of crag pits
p. 33, Shell collections
p. 46, Principles, copies of 6th Ed[ition] unsold
p. 20, Mrs Power's collecion, notes on
p. 18, Owen, mem[oranda] for
Addresses
p. 103, Dinkel
p. 18, De Candolle
p. 58, Featherstonhaugh
p. 40, Flooker
p. 101, Loven
Index
p. 1,5-11,26,36,40-44,48-56,60-69,72-88, Sowerby, G.B. examin[atio]n of Touraine fossil shells
p. 13,30,106, -[Sowerby, G.B.] mem[oranda] for
p. 18, -[Sowerby, G.B.] price of Min. Con.
p. 20, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Cyrenas
p. 20, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Mrs Powers collection
p. 3,22,24,102-105, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Superga fossils
p. 22,26, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Cropthorn fossils
p. 109,121, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on Oliva of Worcestershire
p. 121, -[Sowerby, G.B.] on number of British shells
p. 124, -[Sowerby, G.B.] Mayence fossils purchased by
p. 13, Wood, S. Touraine fossils identified with Crag, by,
p. 28, -[Wood] on Cropthorn fossils
p. 32,34,88, -[Wood] on Crag fossils
p. 89, -[Wood] analysis of his Coral Crag fossils
p. 130, -[Wood] on London Clay fossils Touraine fossils, examin[atio]n of - see "Sowerby"
p. 22,26, Cropthorne fossils
p. 90 to 100, Touraine fossils, list of 236 species
p. 27,29,46,57,122,124, Memoranda
p. 26, Sicily Superga relations of
p. 32, Alexander, Capt[ain] on names of crag pits
p. 33, Shell collections
p. 46, Principles, copies of 6th Ed[ition] unsold
p. 20, Mrs Power's collecion, notes on
p. 18, Owen, mem[oranda] for
Dates
- 3 May 1839-4 June 1839
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Extent
141 folios
70 Leaves
1 volume
Archivist's Note
Transcribed by Michael Lord, June 2021; Catalogued by Elise Ramsay, July 2021
- Bayfield, Henry Wolsey, 1795-1885 (British naval officer and surveyor )
- Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist)
- Norwich (England)
- Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 (American geologist)
- Shells
- Sowerby, George Brettingham, 1788-1854 (British naturalist, conchologist and artist)
- Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist)
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