This brown leather notebook contains diverse notes by Charles Lyell in pen and ink, including lists, sketches, observations on a variety of subjects. The front and back cover are blank and the index is written on folded lined paper which has been stitched into the binding at the back of the notebook.

Voyage to America; Boston - Newhaven - New York

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.

No 89
Index
July 24 to Aug[ust] 12 1841
p. 1,6,8,12, Acadia Steam Ship, notes made in,
p. 1, Ludlow's Corals buried by mud during subsidence
p. 1, Darwin, on coarls stifled by mud
p. 2, Emmons's N[ew] York Rep[ort], notes on,
p. 2, Mastodon at Rochester, L[ake] Ontario
p. 4, 18, Lectures, plan of,
p. 9, 44, [Lectures] illustrations for,
p. 8, New York, area + divisions of the State of,
p. 10, Quebec, mem[oranda] for,
p. 14, Halifax
p. 14, [Halifax] fossil tree
p. 14, [Halifax] Indians
p. 20, Boston - Bunkers Hill - till with boulders
p. 22,24, [Boston] human bones
p. 30, [Boston] variat[ion] of Compass at
p. 44, [Boston] museum, coal plants [et cetera]
p. 45, [Boston] section of Boulder Formation
p. 45,46, [Boston] East, Drift 217 ft deep with rec[ent] shells,
p. 51, [Boston] Memoranda
p. 53,54, [Boston] to Roxburg, Rochester, Jamaica plains + Dorchester - conglomerate - roches moutonnais - blown sand
p. 58,60, [Boston] to Springfield stratified drift [et cetera]
p. 22, Bunkers Hill denud[ation] since till of, depos[ited]
p. 22,24, [Bunkers Hill] human bones at,
p. 22, No heaths or furze in America
p. 26,30, Lowell Institute illustrations
p. 27,28,62,66, Hitchcock's work, notes on,
p. 31, Nova Scotia coal plants
p. 31, Ohio coal with marine (?) shells
p. 33, Nahant sect[ion] near hotel
p. 33, [Nahant] basaltic dikes - till [et cetera]
p. 34, [Nahant] polished rocks
p. 36, [Nahant] ground plan of dikes
p. 38, [Nahant] veins crossing + shifting each other
p. 39, [Nahant] shells on beach at
p. 40, [Nahant] till resting on mud
p. 41, [Nahant] trap dikes highly crystalline
p. 43, Money, rate of exchange
p. 46, Gould, Dr. on shells in Drift [et cetera]
p. 50, Memoranda
p. 52, Anthracite coal plants
p. 52, Teschmacher's Collection
p. 53, Brooklin + Dorchester, drift + erratics
p. 54, Pebbles divided by vertical joints
p. 52, Mansfield, anthracite coal plants
p. 58, Massachusetts Mem[oranda]
p. 20,45,56, Boulder Formation - Boston
p. 40, [Boulder Formation] - Nahant
p. 46, [Boulder Formation] E[ast] Boston
p. 56, [Boulder Formation] bet[ween] Framlingham + Worcester
p. 58, [Boulder Formation] Charlton
p. 58, [Boulder Formation] S[outh] Brookfield
p. 102,104, [Boulder Formation] Hampden
p. 56, [Boulder Formation] stratiifed like Forfar gravels
p. 45,46, [Boulder Formation] recent shells in,
p. 102, 104, [Boulder Formation] great size of boulders
p. 60, Connecticut, R[iver] loess-like loam on its banks
p. 64, [Connecticut, R[iver] geology of
p. 74, [Connecticut, R[iver] valley, conglomerate of,
p. 92, [Connecticut, R[iver] repetition of beds caused by shifts in,
p. 95, [Connecticut, R[iver] on superposition of trap + hypogene in,
p. 60, Thomsonville, red sandstone
p. 62,64,82, Journal
p. 66, Silliman, Dr. queries for,
p. 68-74, Rocky Hill, sandst[one] altered by trap
p. 74, Conglomerate of Connecticut valley
p. 76, Hartford Railway
p. 76, Meriden, section of ridges
p. 76, Wallingford, sandy plain
p. 80, Newhaven, columnar trap rocks
p. 82-86, Orange dike, rudely columnar
p. 82, [Orange dike] chlorite alt[ered] 10ft from contact
p. 80,84, West Rock - trap
p. 88, Southbury, New Red limestone
p. 82,86, Dikes, Orange
p. 88,90, East Haven
p. 96, East Rock
p. 98,100, Mill rock,
p. 88,90, East Haven dikes
p. 90, Fair Haven rocks, their dip
p. 94, Conglomerate, pebbles of lava, gneiss [et cetera] in,
p. 95, Shepard, Mr. on trap + hypogene of Connecticut Valley
p. 96, East Rock dikes
p. 96, Lea on anthracite + bitum[inous] Coal, reference
p. 96, Percival, Mr. queries for,
p. 98, [Percival, Mr.] on trap rocks
p. 102, [Percival, Mr.] on Berlin dikes
p. 107, [Percival, Mr.] on trap of Mt. Carmel
p. 98,100, Mill rock dike
p. 102,104, Hampden, great size of boulders at,
p. 103, Bakewell, R. rec[eipt] for 25 dollars
p. 104, Drift, its general direction
p. 107, Red Sandstone sometimes white
p. 107, Mt. Carmel, trap rocks of,
p. 107, [Mt. Carmel] red sandst[one] of a white colour in,
p. 109, Palisades
Addresses
p. 22, Boott, W.
p. 10, Codrington, Col.
p. 43, Hilliard + Gray
p. 43, Little + Brown
p. 18, Lowell
p. 43, Sumner
p. 18, Ticknor